On 03/12/2013 05:07 PM, David Gerard wrote:
A few people on rationalwiki.org have been muttering about doing a customised Vector skin.
The trouble with Vector is that, as I understand it, it's an odd melange of extension and skin, with functionality that should be in one being in the other, both ways.
I also understand that there are plans to refactor it to be sensibly organised with the right functionality in the right place. (Though I have no idea if there is actually anyone assigned to such a task.)
Yes, people are working on eliminating the extension (removing features that didn't work and moving the good stuff to core).
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45051
It's a big task, so help would probably be welcome.
Remember, you can also do customization on-wiki at MediaWiki:Vector.js and MediaWiki:Vector.css, or through gadgets (which can be defaulted to on). Of course, if it's generally useful you may want to try to merge it into core or the extension.
Matt Flaschen