Someone proposed to have a _distinct color for status "unmaintained"._ Status "unmaintained" is currently signalled with gray color, the same as for status "unknown"
The current color scheme can be found at the lower part of page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_status
The proposal was added here: http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:Extension&offse... and somehow related is https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:Extension&offs...
Because such a color scheme change can have a wide impact and unwanted side-effects, I cross-post the proposal here.
Am 04.07.2013 04:19, schrieb Matthew Flaschen:
Someone proposed to have a _distinct color for status "unmaintained"._ Status "unmaintained" is currently signalled with gray color, the same as for status "unknown"
This makes sense to me. Go for it.
We as users cannot change the colors, because these are defined as classes ext-status-<extensionstatus>. and are _not_ defined in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:Extension .
Exampleof use: see page source of https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_status : class="tpl-infobox ext-infobox ext-status-experimental"
We could probably go away from this class-based color definition, and define it directly in the the template but only when these classes are not used elsewhere in MediaWiki.
Can someone perform a global wikitext source search on mediawiki on which pages the string "ext-status-" is used ? 00 BF FF (DeepBlueSky) may be a suitable background colour for "unmaintained", see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors#X11_color_names .
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 10:35 PM, Thomas Gries mail@tgries.de wrote:
Am 04.07.2013 04:19, schrieb Matthew Flaschen:
Someone proposed to have a _distinct color for status "unmaintained"._ Status "unmaintained" is currently signalled with gray color, the same as for status "unknown"
This makes sense to me. Go for it.
We as users cannot change the colors, because these are defined as classes ext-status-<extensionstatus>. and are _not_ defined in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:Extension .
They're defined in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-site.css
Can someone perform a global wikitext source search on mediawiki on which pages the string "ext-status-" is used ?
I don't think you need to worry about someone using class="ext-status-unmaintained" elsewhere.
00 BF FF (DeepBlueSky) may be a suitable background colour for "unmaintained", see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors#X11_color_names .
DeepSkyBlue is pretty cheery on my screen, would sir prefer something in a decaying brown or green? I added ext-status-unmaintained to Gadget-site.css and made it #8B4513 (SaddleBrown ). Whatever works.
BTW the template puts unmaintained extensions in Category:Not_LTS_ready .
Cheers, -- =S Page software engineer on Editor Engagement Experiments
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