On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Jon Robson
<jrobson(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
It has always concerned me that all the Wikimedia
wikis look the same.
The main concern here is the majority of wiki's based on MediaWiki
thus look associated. I remember 5 years ago I used to think that
WikiTravel was a Wikimedia project because the branding was so
similar.
I can imagine
MediaWiki.org using the default skin would be of value
for attracting new users by making this distinction but has there ever
been talk about configuring a different skin (even slightly different
- say something as simple as colour scheme) for Wikimedia projects?
Personally I'd love to see every project have it's own skin and own
way of expressing itself. Am I alone here in this desire?
I feel like the best
time to do that would have been when vector was
being released. We could have easily kept the default MediaWiki skin
as monobook, and had vector as the default for WMF wikis. Some people
would want their wikis to look like Wikimedia's, but realistically
most people setting up MediaWiki just go with the default.
--bawolff
Vector was part of a usability improvement project. It fixed a number of
fundamental usability defects inside the MonoBook skin.
I don't really like the idea that we should have keep monobook around as
the default anywhere.
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [