If you missed this talk and would like to view the recording, here is the
link: *http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b-8-_UpcQc
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b-8-_UpcQc>*
It has been released under a creative commons license.
If you have any questions please get in touch with Isarra. Email:
zhorishna(a)gmail.com IRC: Isarra.
Also keep in mind that there is a proposed follow-up at the Wikimedia
Developer Summit 2016 in San Francisco about how to actually improve
skinning, so any comments and discussion on that would be very useful.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114071
You can check out past tech talk recordings at the MediaWiki YouTube page
here:
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg4wlhlN8RjP6_e_vMC4CTA
If you have an idea for a future tech talk that you would like to nominate
one, please add your suggestions here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Calendar/How_to_schedule_an_event/Te…
On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Rachel Farrand <rfarrand(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Please join for the following tech talk:
*Tech Talk**:* The making of a MediaWiki skin
*Presenter:* Isarra
*Date:* November 03, 2015
*Time: *18:00 UTC
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Tech+Talk%3A+The+making+of+a+MediaWiki+skin&iso=20151103T18&p1=1440&ah=1>
Link to live YouTube stream <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b-8-_UpcQc>
*IRC channel for questions/discussion:* #wikimedia-office
Google+ page
<https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/103470172168784626509/events/cn511a81dbs7ijlfaf0476uv0jg>,
another
place for questions
*Summary: *MediaWiki's skins, or themes, are a lacking area that needs
much love, but much of the problem simply lies with how little it is known.
In this talk I will walk you through the process to create a skin and show
you how powerful MediaWiki's skinning system can be, even as it is now,
going from cloning the Example skin to a deployable implementation of
long-awaited product: Winter.