On 2013-12-09 5:03 PM, "K. Peachey" p858snake@gmail.com wrote:

For wider discussion

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From: <bugzilla-daemon <at> wikimedia.org> Subject: [Bug 58235] New: Remove skin selection from Wikipedia and Wikimedia site Special:Preferences for new user accounts<

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Date: 2013-12-09 20:27:15 GMT (35 minutes ago)

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58235

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        Bug ID: 58235
       Summary: Remove skin selection from Wikipedia and Wikimedia
                site Special:Preferences for new user accounts
       Product: Wikimedia
       Version: wmf-deployment
      Hardware: All
            OS: All
        Status: NEW
      Severity: normal
      Priority: Unprioritized
     Component: Site requests
      Assignee: wikibugs-l <at> lists.wikimedia.org
      Reporter: jared.zimmerman <at> wikimedia.org
            CC: benapetr <at> gmail.com,
                bugzilla+org.wikimedia <at> tuxmachine.com,
                dereckson <at> espace-win.org, greg <at> wikimedia.org

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                tomasz <at> twkozlowski.net, wikimedia.bugs <at>

snowolf.eu

Classification: Unclassified

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To reduce the support burden on foundation developers and designers when creating new features or improving existing ones, skin selection and

related

preferences should be removed for newly created accounts and the default

skin

(currently vector) used for all new accounts.

A new access point for custom css/js should be added if necessary.

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I think no sums up my view on this pretty well.

Well its fine to make things fit best with vector, any feature that goes in core* should look acceptable in all skins. This seems like an attempt to bypass that requirement

*in my dream world I would say wmf exts too :)

-bawolff