[Foundation-l] Change default skins? (WAS: Wikimedia BrandSurvey Analysis)

[Titoxd@Wikimedia]

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Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Change default skins? (WAS: Wikimedia
BrandSurvey Analysis)

Hello,

On 7/9/07, Titoxd at Wikimedia <titoxd.wikimedia at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Not really replying to David, but there's a ton of messages in this
> thread,
> and there isn't really one that fits as a "best email to reply to".
> It has been mentioned in this thread that most of our projects are
> considered part of Wikipedia in the general public's eyes. However, I
> showed
> a Wikinews article to a friend the other day, and she said, "Wow, I
> thought
> it was Wikipedia because it looks the same as Wikipedia."
> I kept thinking about that for a while, and I realized that we could
> probably visually distance the projects away from Wikipedia by changing
> the
> default skins for those projects. I immediately thought about this skin in
> Wikinews [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:WikinewsSkin-1024.png] that
> apparently never got finished. There are dozens of skin layouts available
> at
> the Gallery of user styles
> [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gallery_of_user_styles] which could help
> Wikimedia sister projects obtain their respective visual identities.
> Of course, that begs the question of whether we would want to do such a
> thing, but if we wanted to, we could probably make a contest to design a
> new
> skin. That would encourage techies to look at the other projects, and feel
> a
> certain degree of satisfaction when they look at code they made being used
> on Wiktionary's Main Page.
> Comments?


Elian and I have been working on this issue and I will present our
conclusions at Wikimania 2007.

See http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:GP1

-- 
Guillaume Paumier
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Nice to know some bright minds are thinking about this. :)

Just curious, for those who can't go to Taipei: would it be better to pursue
a unified visual theme (to underscore coherency within the organization) or
would it be better to pursue different themes (to underscore each project's
independence)? I guess a lot of this boils down to the response individual
communities will have...

Titoxd.