Craig Hartel wrote: <snip>
Welcome Craig !
Template system is a bit hard to learn in v1.3, but people will learn it fast. We might want to offer a better interface to fill fields but I personally think it will need some changes to the way we are handling them actually (aka saving datas in a new database table instead of in the article text).
Some help about templates: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Template
Although I am comfortable with CSS, I am also trying to come up with some site-specific customizations.
The monobook skin (default for v1.3 with phptal) can be edited through the phptal template : ./template/xhtml_slim.pt , css are under ./stylesheets/monobook/ .
If any of you might have some links to to help me and my team to get started, it would be very much appreciated. I have been poking around quite a bit in the MetaWiki, so I'm armed with enough knowledge to really make a mess! ;)
Some links: Installation FAQ: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Installation_FAQ The MediaWiki user guide: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents Developpers irc chat: irc://irc.freenode.net/#mediawiki
cheers,