Hello.
The team working on TemplateStyles at the Wikimedia Foundation would
like to enable TemplateStyles on all Wikimedia later this week.
TemplateStyles is a feature to allow non-administrators to write and
manage CSS styles for templates. It allows contributors who edit
templates to separate content and presentation. A good web practice
that makes it easier to manage the layout of templates. If you don't
edit templates, this will not have any impact on your contributions.
TemplateStyles is useful for a few reasons.
* It makes it possible for templates to work better on mobile.
* It cuts out confusion on where to apply CSS rules.
* Editing CSS is currently limited to administrators, which is a major
barrier to participation.
* All stylesheets must be loaded on all pages (whether they actually
use the page or not), which wastes bandwidth and makes debugging style
rules more difficult.
You can learn more about TemplateStyles on MediaWiki.org.[0] Technical
documentation is also available.[1]
This is an optional feature and no one must use it, but template
contributors are encouraged to do so! Please discuss and let us know
if there are any concerns. If there are no concerns we will proceed to
deploy the feature on the 9th of August.
[0]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:TemplateStyles
[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TemplateStyles
Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Relations Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation