My recommendation would be a most enthusiastic Yes.
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Matthew Flaschen mflaschen@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Does it make sense to move the GettingStarted extension's HTML inside the extension.
Right now, the CSS is in the extension ( https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/extensions/GettingStarted.... ).
But the HTML uses MediaWiki:gettingstarted-msg, and the default value of that is 'An administrator on {{SITENAME}} should customize this message by editing [[{{ns:MediaWiki}}:gettingstarted-msg]].'.
Basically, the CSS is implicitly depending on HTML outside of the extension, with the default message being a placeholder. This leads to inconsistencies if we're not careful.
With Munaf's latest styling (http://jsbin.com/ehizeq/48), it should be possible to have default chrome HTML (everything outside the three columns), with a transclusion to another page. In English Wikipedia's case, that include would be the Copyediting/Spelling & grammar/Add links columns, populated by SuggestBot initially.
Does it make sense to put that outer HTML with an include as the default message?
Matt Flaschen
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