Hi, this project is geared towards third party MediaWikis, and this is why it is becoming more difficult for us to find a mentor among the usual suspects (WMF employees, usually focusing in features relevant to Wikimedia projects). If anybody here familiar with development of extensions wants to volunteer as mentor, let me know. Questons? Just ask.

It is urgent -- see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2014

Thank you.

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Quim Gil* qgil@wikimedia.org Date: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 Subject: [Wikitech-l] GSoC proposal "Frontend for Vector skin CSS customizations" (Ioannis Protonotarios) To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Hi, we are still welcoming mentors for this interesting proposal

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 6:58 PM, Ιωάννης Πρωτονοτάριος < ioannis@protonotarios.eu> wrote:

My proposal is the creation of a frontend that will help users with little or no experience at all to easily produce all the CSS needed to change

their

wiki's layout.

Full proposal wiki page:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Protnet/Frontend_for_Vector_skin_CSS_cus...

The implementation proposed consists in MediaWiki extension depending on the Vector skin. The plan sounds sensible and fitting with the discssion of finding ways for 3rd party MediaWikis to differentiate from plain MediaWiki and Wikimedia sites. The proposal also shows a good amount of original thought and work.

We *might* get a secondary mentor from the WMF Design team to support the UI work and also the possibilities of CSS customization options that MediaWiki admins might be interested about. We miss a developer familiar with MediaWiki extension developer. I'm not an expert, but this extension looks relatively simple in terms of backend? It is an interface to manipulate MediaWiki:Common.css.

Ideas for related bugs that can be assigned to Ioannis as microtasks are also welcome. Just name existing bug reports requiring skills relevant to this project.

Thank you.

-- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil