Hi David! It looks fabulous! If I request the sources can I then put them online? ----- Yury Katkov, WikiVote
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 8:42 AM, David Van Winkle <[email protected]> wrote: > On the topic of wiki skins: we have created a flavor that adheres nicely to > the wiki format but with a completely different design. Feel free to check it > out (we can provide source on request). > http://wiki.step-project.com/Main_Page > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dmitrii > Kouznetsov > Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 8:13 PM > To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list > Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Case Study: Skinning Media Wiki > > Hello, Jason. > Your skin may be good for promotion, but it is not good for presentation of > information: the service menu offupy the most of screen, while only small > part of the brouser frame is used for the main text. > > I am not so skillful in writing scripts; yet I could not make the ShortURL > work, nor even make a workable copy of existing skin "Vector". > So, I modify "Vector"; you may look at the result at > http://mizugadro.mydns.jp/t > > This may give you an idea, how the page should be designed: > The most of space is reserved for the original text, and only narrow strips > at the top and at the left are occupied by the menu. > > On Tue, 21 May 2013, Jason Lewis wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Let me start off by introducing myself. My name is Jason Lewis and I'm >> a developer and (some kind of) designer from Australia. I play a role >> in the community side of things for a PHP framework called Laravel. >> >> Over the last few days I've developed a skin for the Laravel community >> wiki that fits in with the overall theme of the other community sites. >> The idea was to make it blend, but to also keep some sort of wiki >> "feel" to it. On the surface it looks very fresh but at its core it is >> still very much Media Wiki. You can check the skin out here: >> http://wiki.laravel.io >> >> The purpose of this thread is to give you an overview of how I went >> about skinning Media Wiki from the point of view of someone who has >> never attempted it before. I've used Media Wiki in the past but never >> done anything besides changing the default logo.* *During the process >> of skinning I used the following tutorial as a reference for some of >> the inner-workings of Media Wiki: >> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skinning/Tutorial > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
