>>>> "P" == Platonides
<Platonides(a)gmail.com> writes:
P> Ilmari Karonen wrote:
> It would be better if we could just tell wiki
owners to
> download the CSS file and drop it into the right (common or
> skin-specific) directory, and it'd automagically start to work.
OK, what I suppose we are now talking about is
"I want to use Wikipedia's stylesheets on my wiki"
So we might try one of
1) Tell the browser to get it straight from Wikipedia, via some line in
LocalSettings.php.
Well even if we could tell the browser of the person reading our wiki to
just get them from wikipedia, there are like 12 of them, with
complicated URLs. I suppose on an English site, one would want to tell
the browser to get
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Common.css&action=r…
On a zh site, get zh.wikipedia etc.
2) Add a cronjob to get
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Common.css&action=r…
etc. every night and stick in somewhere in skins/common/ or something.
Or use edit.php to paste it into MediaWiki:Common.css ... keeping
RecentChanges warm and filling up mysql with wasted revisions.
3) Put all those good styles that have been ending up only in Wikipedia
back into Mediawiki where they belong.
(I use emacs' supercite package to do the quoting above.)