MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Ryan Kaldari wrote:
Yeah, the local CSS/JS cruft is definitely a problem. I've tried doing clean-up on a few wikis, but I usually just get chewed out by the local admins for not discussing every change in detail (which obviously doesn't scale for fixing 200+ wikis). I would love to hear ideas for how to address this problem.
This caught my eye as Wikimedia has far more than 200 wikis. There seems to be a shift happening within the Wikimedia Foundation. The sister projects have routinely been ignored in the past, but things seem to be going further lately....
The good thing about forgotten/abandoned/unloved/etc. projects is that they probably don't have lots of cruft accumulated in the global CSS/JS files (as they require quite lively tech-savvy community to maintain them).
So those sites will not probably require any changes and will survive HTML5 migration without any problems.
//Marcin