On 8/12/06, Edward Z. Yang edwardzyang@thewritingpot.com wrote:
Technically speaking, the gobs of style information we find in lots of infoboxes and stuff should be tucked away in Common.css, unfortunantely, the average editor is not well versed enough to do something like that.
The quick-n-dirty way is to do something like <div style="background:grey;">. The correct way would be to get an admin to define a contextually correct class name to use, like <div style="nameofblock"> that's independent of how it's going to be styled.
On en wikipedia at least, we're a hell of a long way away from having any kind of consistent look and feel across the project. Even the choice of colours for our maps seems to be totally up to the preference of the person making the map.
We kind of need a next level of hierarchy above wikiprojects. They're good at standardising appearance across a group of related articles. Next we need a meta-wikiproject: standardising, to a lower level, appearance across *all* articles.
Steve