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

[Maria Fanucchi]

What about the few Wikipedias which already have different skins?
For example, vi: (Vietnamese) has a yellow background on all pages except
the main one (for example:
http://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%E1%BB%83_lo%E1%BA%A1i:%C4%90%E1%BB%8Ba_l%C3%BD_h%E1%BB%8Dc),
and ar: (Arabic) has a light blue and white background, very different
from the default skin (on the main page as well:
http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D9%81%D8%AD%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A9).
If we do change the skins according to projects (wp, wn, ws, and so on),
would these projects keep their individual skins or have to switch to a
Wikipedia skin?
--Maria
User:Arria Belli

On 7/9/07, Stephen Bain <stephen.bain at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 7/9/07, Titoxd at Wikimedia <titoxd.wikimedia at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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...
>
> There should certainly be unifying visual elements, but different
> projects have different needs from their interface. For example, I'm
> working on a new skin at the moment that draws on ideas from various
> image sharing websites which hopefully will be useful for Commons
> which deals primarily with media.
>
> --
> Stephen Bain
> stephen.bain at gmail.com
>
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