Hi,
I'm Isarra, a volunteer MediaWiki developer, and I've submitted a grant
proposal to the WMF to support my work on a new responsive skin designed
for the Wikimedia projects, Timeless:
* Abstract: A new skin, Timeless, has been deployed to the Beta Cluster,
but to make it worth eventual deployment to all projects, we need proper
research into what's expected/needed from a better skin, and the ability
to devote development resources to making it meet these
expectations/needs. This grant, as part of a larger series of vaguely
planned grants intended to work on many of the underlying issues with
MediaWiki's user-facing interfaces, will serve to address this need.
*
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Timeless
Timeless currently exists as fairly basic prototype, but I invite you to
take a look at the current version:
* Wiki specifically for Timeless:
https://timeless-skin.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page
* To see what it might look/act like in production, there is a copy of
the Simple English Wikipedia on the Beta Cluster, where Timeless has
already been deployed:
https://simple.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page - you can
create an account, set your skin to Timeless, and go through some of the
things you might do here, or simply append the string ?useskin=timeless
to the end of any page url to see what it would look like in Timeless
* Skin documentation:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:Timeless
If this looks like a project you would be interested in seeing happen, I
would very much appreciate your feedback. This applies especially if you
have any specific concerns about the skin or the proposal itself, or
have faced particular problems on your own projects that you think this
might be able to address, because the more of these are documented, the
better they will be.
I look forward to working with all of you to redefine how we handle our
project interfaces.
Thanks,
Isarra