On Fri, 19 May 2006, arnomane@gmx.de wrote:
Am Freitag, 19. Mai 2006 04:25 schrieb Elisabeth Bauer:
If you're a good designer, creating a good layout for wikipedia - do you really want any design ignorant admin later fiddling with it and maybe destroying it?
Well there is a problem: What is destruction? I am very sure that some people consider some of our CSS hacks in MediaWiki:Monobook.css destruction of the given Monobook design.
Indeed...
But as you have pointed it out usability is important and so I think we can find a good commons sense for some kind of "corporate design" with only minor local tweaks if we favour usability over fancy design.
Hmm. "community design" ?
If we want to have a professional designer creating a layout for us, we need to guarantee them that their work remains intact. My idea was, though, to use free licenses but have some kind of social contract that they will be consulted if any changes to the layout have to be done.
Well there is the requirement that you have to credit the author(s). In case someone else did modify a design you can force people by license (let us say
We can even provide an archive highlighting past 'accepted' designs in their pristine state; we can't guarantee that a particular design will be up forever. MIT plans a new main page design every day, drawing on submissions from their community; it works wonderfully.
http://web.mit.edu http://web.mit.edu/site/propose.html
-- Sj