Somebody recently posted on the English Wikipedia's "Help Desk" with what at first sight appeared to be a technical problem with skins: they could not see "the most modern 'standard'" while logged in. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_desk#Display_irk ]
I think, however, that they are just being confused by a rather unhelpful choice of name - if you select "Standard" as your skin, you get not the current default (which is called "MonoBook"), but the previous one. It's now become a name for something that was previously essentially nameless.
As I went on to say in my response, it's probably not a very good idea having something called "standard" that's not standard any more - perhaps we should try and come up with a "proper" name for it. "Classic" would be a possibility, but not a very good one, since we already have a "nostalgia"; "phase3" would be a bit dull (and meaningless for most users)...
So here's my challenge to you all (developers and users alike, I hope I don't annoy too many people by cross-posting this): come up with a name, in retrospect, for the skin which didn't need a name until MediaWiki 1.3, because it was just "standard".
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 11:33:07AM +0100, Rowan Collins wrote:
So here's my challenge to you all (developers and users alike, I hope I don't annoy too many people by cross-posting this): come up with a name, in retrospect, for the skin which didn't need a name until MediaWiki 1.3, because it was just "standard".
How about "Simple".
Arvind
So here's my challenge to you all (developers and users alike, I hope I don't annoy too many people by cross-posting this): come up with a name, in retrospect, for the skin which didn't need a name until MediaWiki 1.3, because it was just "standard".
How about "Simple".
Arvind
Ah, but isn't "nostalgia" even simpler? Perhaps something more descriptive; I was going to suggest "ochre", but there's no more or less off-yellow in it than some of the other skins, really, now I look....
On 06/27/04 11:26, Rowan Collins wrote:
So here's my challenge to you all (developers and users alike, I hope I don't annoy too many people by cross-posting this): come up with a name, in retrospect, for the skin which didn't need a name until MediaWiki 1.3, because it was just "standard".
How about "Simple". Arvind
Ah, but isn't "nostalgia" even simpler? Perhaps something more descriptive; I was going to suggest "ochre", but there's no more or less off-yellow in it than some of the other skins, really, now I look....
No, I think "Plain" or "Simple" is a good name, because I use it precisely because it is plain and simple.
- d.
David Gerard wrote:
On 06/27/04 11:26, Rowan Collins wrote:
So here's my challenge to you all (developers and users alike, I hope I don't annoy too many people by cross-posting this): come up with a name, in retrospect, for the skin which didn't need a name until MediaWiki 1.3, because it was just "standard".
How about "Simple". Arvind
Ah, but isn't "nostalgia" even simpler? Perhaps something more descriptive; I was going to suggest "ochre", but there's no more or less off-yellow in it than some of the other skins, really, now I look....
No, I think "Plain" or "Simple" is a good name, because I use it precisely because it is plain and simple.
"Simple" could entail confusion with the Simple English Wikipedia. As one of the old farts around here, I continue to use this skin. I think that "Gold Standard" is the suggestion that would have my vote.
Ec
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On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 11:33:07AM +0100, Rowan Collins wrote:
So here's my challenge to you all (developers and users alike, I hope I don't annoy too many people by cross-posting this): come up with a name, in retrospect, for the skin which didn't need a name until MediaWiki 1.3, because it was just "standard".
"Old Standard"?
Or even "Gold Standard"?
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Till Westermayer wrote:
So here's my challenge to you all (developers and users alike, I hope I don't annoy too many people by cross-posting this): come up with a name, in retrospect, for the skin which didn't need a name until MediaWiki 1.3, because it was just "standard".
"Old Standard"? Or even "Gold Standard"?
I really really don't think it should contain the word "standard" at all.
"Gold" might be nice. A derivative suggestion might be "Golden Age", heheh...
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