I actually thing nv.wikipedia.org is a bad example.... I actually think all the Wikipedia's should have consistency. Clicking on a language link in Wikipedia to the Navajo language gives the impression you've left and gone to an external site.
When I say projects should have their own skins I mean projects excluding languages: e.g. mediawiki, meta wiki, wikipedia, wikibooks, wiktionary, wikivoyage etc etc
It does however point to a need for being able to customise tweaks out of the box. In Tumblr you can do things like change the font colour, heading colours etc. If we were to move to something like SASS or LESS compiled CSS ResourceLoader support it would be trivial to generate new themes with different colour schemes... which would be super cool. Common.css is not the place for these sorts of changes - it just leads to css cascade abuse.
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Steven Walling swalling@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Jon Robson jrobson@wikimedia.org wrote:
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?
If examples like http://nv.wikipedia.org/ and the various home pages of wikis are any evidence, I'd say you're not alone there.
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