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.)