David Gerard wrote:
A few people on
rationalwiki.org have been muttering
about doing a
customised Vector skin.
The trouble with Vector is that, as I understand it, it's an odd
melange of extension and skin, with functionality that should be in
one being in the other, both ways.
I also understand that there are plans to refactor it to be sensibly
organised with the right functionality in the right place. (Though I
have no idea if there is actually anyone assigned to such a task.)
Is this the case? If not, what is? What's the present and future of
Vector?
Several people (myself included) railed against having both a skin and a
MediaWiki extension named "Vector", but we were ultimately unsuccessful in
avoiding the creation of the current clusterfuck.
Relevant (current) bugs:
*
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45051
"Phase out the Vector extension; merge the good parts into core"
*
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43689
"Implement "Templates used on this page" collapsing below edit window
and
the rest of footer cleanup module in core"
*
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45977
"Better, central default for MediaWiki:Edithelppage"
*
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42630
"Implement English Wikipedia-only enhancements for other Wikimedia wikis
(tracking)"
I believe the Wikimedia Foundation would like to eventually phase-out the
Vector skin in favor of the Athena skin (cf.
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Athena>).
I recently tripped across <https://wikitech-test.wmflabs.org/wiki/> which
is using an interesting skin, but I'm not sure which.
MZMcBride