On the topic of wiki skins: we have created a flavor that adheres nicely to the wiki
format but with a completely different design. Feel free to check it out (we can provide
source on request).
http://wiki.step-project.com/Main_Page
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[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Dmitrii Kouznetsov
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 8:13 PM
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Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Case Study: Skinning Media Wiki
Hello, Jason.
Your skin may be good for promotion, but it is not good for presentation of information:
the service menu offupy the most of screen, while only small part of the brouser frame is
used for the main text.
I am not so skillful in writing scripts; yet I could not make the ShortURL work, nor even
make a workable copy of existing skin "Vector".
So, I modify "Vector"; you may look at the result at
http://mizugadro.mydns.jp/t
This may give you an idea, how the page should be designed:
The most of space is reserved for the original text, and only narrow strips at the top and
at the left are occupied by the menu.
On Tue, 21 May 2013, Jason Lewis wrote:
Hello,
Let me start off by introducing myself. My name is Jason Lewis and I'm
a developer and (some kind of) designer from Australia. I play a role
in the community side of things for a PHP framework called Laravel.
Over the last few days I've developed a skin for the Laravel community
wiki that fits in with the overall theme of the other community sites.
The idea was to make it blend, but to also keep some sort of wiki
"feel" to it. On the surface it looks very fresh but at its core it is
still very much Media Wiki. You can check the skin out here:
http://wiki.laravel.io
The purpose of this thread is to give you an overview of how I went
about skinning Media Wiki from the point of view of someone who has
never attempted it before. I've used Media Wiki in the past but never
done anything besides changing the default logo.* *During the process
of skinning I used the following tutorial as a reference for some of
the inner-workings of Media Wiki:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skinning/Tutorial
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