Hi all! This is my proposal announcement for GSoC 2104: Abstract Appearance is most important for any site. Unfortunately, while MediaWiki is very advanced in functionality it lacks flexibility in terms of appearance. Vector skin is great, no doubt about it, but it seems there is no other alternative. Almost all wikis in the world look like Wikipedia. Of course one can apply their own CSS and customize the site's layout or even create their own skin in PHP but both solutions demand a lot of knowledge and effort and in the end nobody really does so except maybe for some big commercial sites. My proposal is the creation of a frontend that will help users with little or no experience at all to easily produce all the CSS needed to change their wiki's layout. Full proposal wiki page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Protnet/Frontend_for_Vector_skin_CSS_cus tomizations It's still a draft but you can get most of the idea. I've learnt about GSoC a few days ago by chance so I didn't have much time to prepare it properly. Any last minute help would be most appreciated! And the most important thing is I still haven't found any possible mentors. Please help me on this!! With regards, Ioannis Protonotarios Electrical & Computer Engineer MSc, now studying education Athens, Greece (P.S. I still have the fantasy that I will manage to apply with a second proposal as well.)