The original version of Dantman's port preserved the Wikia button layout and retained
most of the CSS of the original Wikia skin. I have removed some of the original
functionality (such as the most of the original Wikia button interface appearance),
preferring instead to allow the default Monobook/Vector CSS be used instead, as well as
including compatibility patches for the WikiEditor extension.
Unlike Dantman's port, which tried to port almost all of the original skin behavior
intact, my skin fork is focused on compatibility with current versions of MediaWiki and
its extensions, as the stock version has interface errors "out of the box", and
since I have effectively removed most of the original Wikia button code, it made more
sense to make a fork than to call this a bug fix of the original, especially since some of
the changes effectively change the skin to have a more Vector/Monobook like appearance.
From: p858snake(a)gmail.com
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 18:14:15 +1000
To: mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Have released a modified version of the Monaco skin
Is there any reason in particular you forked it instead of submitting
patches?
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Arcane 21 <arcane(a)live.com> wrote:
I have just finished making a fork of Daniel
Friesen (Dantman's) port of
the Monaco skin for anyone who likes using the skin but has found it has
display errors when used with certain extensions (like WikiEditor),
especially on the latest versions of MediaWiki. This forked version has
several edits to make it more compatible with more recent versions of
MediaWiki, mostly CSS tweaks and a compatibility patch for users of the
WikiEditor extension.
I'm not very experienced with GitHub, but I have tested the project linked
below and it works fine for me, so I would like to share my fork with the
MediaWiki community:
https://github.com/Arcane21/monaco-port
I hope it was not inappropriate to use this mailing list to share this, so
if it was, I apologize, but I thought this might benefit the MediaWiki
community, and I hope it proves useful.
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