David Gerard wrote:
A few people on rationalwiki.org have been muttering about doing a customised Vector skin.
The trouble with Vector is that, as I understand it, it's an odd melange of extension and skin, with functionality that should be in one being in the other, both ways.
I also understand that there are plans to refactor it to be sensibly organised with the right functionality in the right place. (Though I have no idea if there is actually anyone assigned to such a task.)
Is this the case? If not, what is? What's the present and future of Vector?
Several people (myself included) railed against having both a skin and a MediaWiki extension named "Vector", but we were ultimately unsuccessful in avoiding the creation of the current clusterfuck.
Relevant (current) bugs:
* https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45051 "Phase out the Vector extension; merge the good parts into core"
* https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43689 "Implement "Templates used on this page" collapsing below edit window and the rest of footer cleanup module in core"
* https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45977 "Better, central default for MediaWiki:Edithelppage"
* https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42630 "Implement English Wikipedia-only enhancements for other Wikimedia wikis (tracking)"
I believe the Wikimedia Foundation would like to eventually phase-out the Vector skin in favor of the Athena skin (cf. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Athena).
I recently tripped across https://wikitech-test.wmflabs.org/wiki/ which is using an interesting skin, but I'm not sure which.
MZMcBride