On 07/16/2013 12:40 AM, bawolff wrote:
Some people would want their wikis to look like Wikimedia's, but realistically most people setting up MediaWiki just go with the default.
Most people would like a custom look&feel done with little effort (just look what people do when they got a Wordpress, leave alone a Twitter or Facebook account).
But realistically, look what those of us MediaWiki sysadmins find when trying to differentiate away from plain Vector:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skinning/Vector http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CSS
Excited? Encouraged to touch anything? :)
Of course a shortcut is to just go for a different skin but then you enter an uncertain land: will all the functionality work? will it be maintained in the future? mobile?
Just too much hassle for changing some colors and styles. Yet I bet with a simple nice doc just touching the basics, a lot more Vector based MediaWiki diversity would be seen out there.