Erik Moeller wrote:
tarquin-
- Create a new default skin
Well, you may have noticed that even minor changes to the skin meet with quite strong resistance and have to be defended individually. Realistically, you will have to defend your new skin, and it will probably end up being voted on, before it is made the new default.
Well so far I've been happy to read people's comments and criticisms and make changes. (see the comment pages on Meta). I'm quite prepared to do that -- go through many cycles of development, comments, development, comments. I *did* say early that my intention was that we'd keep Phase3 skin as one of the user preferences. But we *badly* need a more n00b-friendly skin. (For example: I have been trying to get Wikipedia bookmarked in all libraries across my area, but the way it looks at the moment, most people just find it too confusing -- people have to remember: lusers start reading at the top left and keep going. At the moment, they think our site is called "Main Page http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page | Recent changes http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Recentchanges | Edit this page http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Main_Page&action=edit | Page history http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Main_Page&action=history")
However, if this turns into Yet Another Vote In Which Nothing Gets Decided, then I think my time is better spent .... hmmm... playing Solitaire.
Instead of many skins competing for votes, I would rather have a small core of designers work on one project, and get feedback from wikipedians at large to gradually reach something we're happy with. (I don't recall we voted on Magnus' PHP script, or Lee's Phase 3. ;) )
In the meantime, please could someone answer my question: I have CVS access. How do I put things on the text server?
Just commit it to the unstable branch (it's the default branch) and it will get in with the next update. Please don't commit unfinished stuff.
Thanks.