Hoi, Wikimedias development is centred on one skin. This used to be monobook and it is now vector. The question if a community may elect to be conservative / retro / different ignores this issue. There will be some effort to maintain other skins as well but as history has shown, bit rot will creep in. New functionality will not be designed to work with other skins.
As it is there is very little communities can ask to be implemented for them. A good example is the Babel extension that is wished for by many communities. Thanks, GerardM
On 28 June 2010 19:58, Strainu strainu10@gmail.com wrote:
(I'd argue that changing the skin to vector is a strategic decision by WMF and cannot be overruled by local communities - but that's something a system administrator has to decide.)
I'd say the system administrators will do as the foundation (board perhaps? or some other organ) says.
Having different looks on different wikipedias is raising some identity questions, but I'd say that the simple fact that right now en.wiki looks in a way and smaller wikis look differently is a hint that the problem is not that serious. I'm really curious about the outcome of this discussion, be it here or not :)
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