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
On 6/14/07, Cary Bass cbass@wikimedia.org wrote:
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
Do you like anything at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gallery_of_user_styles
If not it may be a problem. Last attempt to find people to try and redesign wikipedia fell falt.
I volunteer to come up with a few skins, if anyone else wants to help please do as it will increase competition and make for better designs. If we do settle on a new one I suggest asking the MediaWiki developers to add us a new skin so we don't have interference with users who want to keep using monobook.
Please list anything you would like on a new skin and I will see what I can do ;)
On 14/06/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/14/07, Cary Bass cbass@wikimedia.org wrote:
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
Do you like anything at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gallery_of_user_styles
If not it may be a problem. Last attempt to find people to try and redesign wikipedia fell falt.
-- geni
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Is redesigning actually an option? Or is the purpose merely some small changes to monobook?
On 6/14/07, Robert Leverington lcarsdata@googlemail.com wrote:
I volunteer to come up with a few skins, if anyone else wants to help please do as it will increase competition and make for better designs. If we do settle on a new one I suggest asking the MediaWiki developers to add us a new skin so we don't have interference with users who want to keep using monobook.
Please list anything you would like on a new skin and I will see what I can do ;)
On 14/06/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/14/07, Cary Bass cbass@wikimedia.org wrote:
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
Do you like anything at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gallery_of_user_styles
If not it may be a problem. Last attempt to find people to try and redesign wikipedia fell falt.
-- geni
Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
-- Robert http://roberthl.wikitest.co.uk/
Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
We will have to ask the developers\sysadmins to create us a new file anyway (so as to avoid problems with monobook and myskin) so I suggest having an anything-goes contest. If we decide to use the one which is monobook with a few changes then we can use that.
On 14/06/07, Bryan Tong Minh bryan.tongminh@gmail.com wrote:
Is redesigning actually an option? Or is the purpose merely some small changes to monobook?
On 6/14/07, Robert Leverington lcarsdata@googlemail.com wrote:
I volunteer to come up with a few skins, if anyone else wants to help please do as it will increase competition and make for better designs. If we do settle on a new one I suggest asking the MediaWiki developers to add us a new skin so we don't have interference with users who want to keep using monobook.
Please list anything you would like on a new skin and I will see what I can do ;)
On 14/06/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/14/07, Cary Bass cbass@wikimedia.org wrote:
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
Do you like anything at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gallery_of_user_styles
If not it may be a problem. Last attempt to find people to try and redesign wikipedia fell falt.
-- geni
Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
-- Robert http://roberthl.wikitest.co.uk/
Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
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On 14/06/07, Bryan Tong Minh bryan.tongminh@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/14/07, Robert Leverington lcarsdata@googlemail.com wrote:
On 14/06/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/14/07, Cary Bass cbass@wikimedia.org wrote:
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?
Do you like anything at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gallery_of_user_styles
If not it may be a problem. Last attempt to find people to try and redesign wikipedia fell falt.
I volunteer to come up with a few skins, if anyone else wants to help please do as it will increase competition and make for better designs. If we do settle on a new one I suggest asking the MediaWiki developers to add us a new skin so we don't have interference with users who want to keep using monobook.
Please list anything you would like on a new skin and I will see what I can do ;)
Is redesigning actually an option? Or is the purpose merely some small changes to monobook?
We will have to ask the developers\sysadmins to create us a new file anyway (so as to avoid problems with monobook and myskin) so I suggest having an anything-goes contest. If we decide to use the one which is monobook with a few changes then we can use that.
I have a custom monobook.css in my userspace that I use on a daily basis. Please feel free to comment.
- -- Charli (zelzany/vishwin60) The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games. ~Eugene Jarvis
On 6/15/07, Charli Li chengli1@verizon.net wrote:
Please do not top-post in email replies. Thanks.
Please cut out the parts from prior emails that you are not actually replying to, thanks.
On 6/14/07, Robert Leverington lcarsdata@googlemail.com wrote:
I volunteer to come up with a few skins, if anyone else wants to help please do as it will increase competition and make for better designs. If we do settle on a new one I suggest asking the MediaWiki developers to add us a new skin so we don't have interference with users who want to keep using monobook.
Please list anything you would like on a new skin and I will see what I can do ;)
Cats at the top classic style.