-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1
nsk wrote:
Nostalgia is a MediaWiki skin that has been introduced before 1.3, when MonoBook became the default. It is available for use in Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites for registered users. It is the skin that I like best, but I think it is in need of some improvement.
The skin appears to have some usability problems that other skins don't have: you cannot easily find your user pages when using Nostalgia, and there is no easy link for uploads apart from a drop down menu which is too unorganised.
Nostalgia roughly replicates the pre-MediaWiki interface of Wikipedia. It's not really meant for usability. ;)
I would like to know whether there is any interest from other users/developers about Nostalgia (or whether I am the only one using it!), and if so what you would like to see in an improved more modern version of Nostalgia (with the same general looks, but not putting the user in a disadvamtaged position from a usability standpoint comprared to the other skins, particularly the default one). What would you think can be considered wrong with the current Nostalgia, and how would you like it to be?
PS: I have put a quick patch (15868) on bugzilla to include user pages in Nostalgia.
Doesn't sound terribly disruptive. Note that preferences and watchlist are already available through the special pages dropdown, though.
Of course as the number of special pages has increased dramatically since 2002, that drop-down has become rather unwieldy. I'm not sure what's the best way to extend or replace this without dramatically changing the layout.
- -- brion