On 10 February 2010 14:45, Aryeh Gregor Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com wrote:
That means 6% aren't, i.e., ~700,000 users. That's actually much higher than I expected. It would be particularly silly to throw out Chick, Simple, and MySkin, since those differ from Monobook only in CSS. I don't think we should get rid of any skins here if feasible.
Main thing is to let people know on the larger wikis that a change to the skin engine is coming, and if they want ObscureSkin or PrimordialSkin they are heartily welcome to hack on the CSS. (I'd guess good web designers would be much easier to find than good PHP developers.) As long as people are warned and asked to help, it should avoid ruffled feathers on the part of the users.
(Hmm, wonder how easy it'd be to put a Nostalgia skin on Monobook ...)
- d.