On 2013-07-15 3:40 PM, bawolff wrote:
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Jon Robson jrobson@wikimedia.org wrote:
It has always concerned me that all the Wikimedia wikis look the same. The main concern here is the majority of wiki's based on MediaWiki thus look associated. I remember 5 years ago I used to think that WikiTravel was a Wikimedia project because the branding was so similar.
I can imagine MediaWiki.org using the default skin would be of value for attracting new users by making this distinction but has there ever been talk about configuring a different skin (even slightly different
- say something as simple as colour scheme) for Wikimedia projects?
Personally I'd love to see every project have it's own skin and own way of expressing itself. Am I alone here in this desire?
I feel like the best time to do that would have been when vector was being released. We could have easily kept the default MediaWiki skin as monobook, and had vector as the default for WMF wikis. Some people would want their wikis to look like Wikimedia's, but realistically most people setting up MediaWiki just go with the default.
--bawolff
Vector was part of a usability improvement project. It fixed a number of fundamental usability defects inside the MonoBook skin.
I don't really like the idea that we should have keep monobook around as the default anywhere.
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/]