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(a)gmail.com> wrote: -- Robert http://roberthl.wikitest.co.uk/ _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l

On 14/06/07, Bryan Tong Minh <bryan.tongminh(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On 6/14/07, Robert Leverington <lcarsdata(a)googlemail.com> wrote: >> On 14/06/07, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> On 6/14/07, Cary Bass <cbass(a)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

>>>> wiki to another. >>>> >>>> And, judging from offsite conversations, some of you are

>>>> But not all of us are good at designing skins. And how do we

>>>> 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

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 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 ;)