Hi,
I'm new to the list, and the mediawiki world. If this would be better directed elsewhere, let me know.
I recently came across a skin for Mediawiki called Erudite[1], which is based on a Wordpress theme of the same name[2].
I updated it to the work well with the current Mediawiki version, fix bugs, and try and ensure everything was general enough that it should work on any wiki with any extensions. As I say, I'm new to mediawiki, so my ideas on the best ways of doing things come largely from a blog post[3], the mediawiki wiki, and delving into mediawiki's code for things I wasn't sure about. It's possible I didn't follow best practises in some places, but I certainly tried to.
I set up a new wiki demoing the skin (editing and creating accounts is enabled; try it out,) here: https://www.dur.ac.uk/nick.white/erudite-demo/mediawiki-current/ And the code is all here: https://www.dur.ac.uk/nick.white/eruditeskin-0.9.4-r1.tar.bz2 If anybody interested could take a look, and give me feedback, that would be wonderful.
I'd also ideally love the skin to be taken as one of the standard skins that is distributed with mediawiki. I think it's very attractive, and quite different to the other mediawiki themes I found, so could be a good fit. Might that be possible? How would I go about pushing that forward?
Thanks, and I look forward to hearing back from folks.
Nick White
1: http://www.unifiedrepublicofstars.com/reference/The_Unified_Republic_of_Star... 2: http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/the-erudite 3: http://blog.redwerks.org/2012/02/08/mediawiki-skinning-tutorial/