Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:39:54 -0400 From: Cary Bass cbass@wikimedia.org Subject: [Commons-l] Monobook.css update? To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: 4671998A.3090106@wikimedia.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
IMHO, the old monobook is getting old and tired, and it's marginally relevant to Wikimedia Commons. And it's so similar to many of the projects that it's not always easy to tell that you've moved from one wiki to another.
And, judging from offsite conversations, some of you are agreeing with me. But not all of us are good at designing skins. And how do we change it while upsetting the least amount of people?
I propose that we formulate a contest to come up with a new, more exciting monobook.css.
What do you all think?
-C
Wikinews had a design contest once ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews_design_contest ). Problem is no one could agree on anything but that the current monobook sucked for anything not an encyclopedia (and to this day, that is the prevailing opinion more or less) .
Anyways, one of the useful things we did do that might be useful for your contest, is make some of the entries alternate stylesheets on wikinews. This allowed people to try them out easily without going through [[special:mypage/monobook.css]]. For example, goto any page on the english wikinews. On a browser that supports alt stylesheets (like firefox, opera), View->Page Style->foo.
Good luck -bawolff