My recommendation would be a most enthusiastic Yes. 


On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Matthew Flaschen <mflaschen@wikimedia.org> wrote:
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.git;a=blob;f=resources/ext.gettingstarted.css;h=106830b0676ed0729d624698512ccfaef24d0c87;hb=refs/heads/master).

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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