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

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 ;)