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---- From: <bugzilla-daemon <at> wikimedia.org> Subject: [Bug 58235] New: Remove skin selection from Wikipedia and Wikimedia site Special:Preferences for new user accountshttp://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3cbug%2d58235%2d3%40https.bugzilla.wikimedia.org%2f%3e Newsgroups: gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.bugshttp://news.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.bugs Date: 2013-12-09 20:27:15 GMT (35 minutes ago)
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58235
Web browser: --- Bug ID: 58235 Summary: Remove skin selection from Wikipedia and Wikimedia site Special:Preferences for new user accounts Product: Wikimedia Version: wmf-deployment Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: Unprioritized Component: Site requests Assignee: wikibugs-l <at> lists.wikimedia.org Reporter: jared.zimmerman <at> wikimedia.org CC: benapetr <at> gmail.com, bugzilla+org.wikimedia <at> tuxmachine.com, dereckson <at> espace-win.org, greg <at> wikimedia.org, tomasz <at> twkozlowski.net, wikimedia.bugs <at> snowolf.eu Classification: Unclassified Mobile Platform: ---
To reduce the support burden on foundation developers and designers when creating new features or improving existing ones, skin selection and related preferences should be removed for newly created accounts and the default skin (currently vector) used for all new accounts.
A new access point for custom css/js should be added if necessary.