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

[Maria Fanucchi]

My last sentence is a bit messy, I'll admit. ^^ I meant to ask if the
Wikipedias with non-default skins would have to switch to whatever skin is
chosen for Wikipedias as a whole.
--Maria
User:Arria Belli
(Mental note: Reread self before pressing "send".)

On 7/9/07, Maria Fanucchi <marialadouce at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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