I would invest time working on a generic skin customisation admin page
e.g. Special:SkinConfiguration that can be used for all skins. Maybe
Wiki pages are used to store the results of these changes but the
important thing is it should be easy to find all of these changes
rather than having to know all the special names of pages and what
effects they can have.
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Wednesday, April 2, 2014, Jon Robson <jdlrobson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
FWIW and slightly off topic I really dislike MediaWiki:Sidebar and
would prefer it doesn't make it's way into the mobile skin in any
form. I think using a wiki page to edit interface elements doesn't
lend itself well to a separation of concerns.
The fact is that almost every single MediaWiki out there has customized
their sidebar using the only recommend method, editing MediaWiki:Sidebar.
While MobileFrontend is not planning to follow this path, MediaWiki Core
doesn't seem to have any plans to move away from MediaWiki:Sidebar. The
result is that almost every single MediaWiki mobile instance offers an
inconsistent experience to their users.
Not urgent, but important.
An early form of this bug can be found in
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30902 (but as stated
this menu is different from MediaWiki:Sidebar)
Thank you for this URL.
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Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil