"AG" == Aryeh Gregor Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com writes:
AG> Do you mean we should import some of Wikipedia's styles to the default AG> software?
What I see here is "unfair insider trading".
The people writing MediaWiki are the many of the same people running Wikipedia.
They make MediaWiki emit the HTML half of the picture for the styles they want... ...then many times they implement the CSS other half only on Wikipedia. Much faster to test, looks great, problem solved...for them only.
The government should split you guys into two companies.
All those styles just end up jumbled into Wikipedia's private CSS.
Nobody even remembered to leave a default style for plain MediaWiki users.
AG> Sometimes Wikipedia deliberately wants to be different than we want AG> the default to look.
But more often the way you want the default to work just ended up in directly in Wikipedia's private CSS. E.g., https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26266 .