Dear Jon,

That is a great initiative, thank you very much! I always found it a little
hard to find MediaWiki skins, hopefully that will be a thing of the past
now!

Kilian

Am Di., 22. Dez. 2020 um 13:25 Uhr schrieb eQuality Technology <
[email protected]>:

> This is awesome!  Thanks Jon!
>
> I did notice one minor error: on https://skins.wmflabs.org/?#/add it says
> *sicenotice* instead of *sitenotice*.
>
> Greg
>
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> On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 6:37 PM Jon Robson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> tldr: If you have built skins or use skins that are not listed on
>> MediaWiki.org, please list them [4] and check that they work with current
>> MediaWiki.org. If you have always wanted to build a skin try the new tool
>> and give me feedback on how you get on! [3].
>>
>> Longer version:
>> As part of my involvement in the desktop improvements project  [1] I with
>> the help of many others have been trying to simplify the development of
>> skins.
>>
>> As part of this, much-needed maintenance has occurred in MediaWiki core
>> with the intention of making skin development easier.
>>
>> As a personal goal, I wanted to prototype a tool to showcase the skins
>> available in the ecosystem, and finally with the downtime of the holiday
>> period (no deploys!) I've finally done that. It allows showcasing [2] and
>> building skins [3].
>>
>> While building this tool I was surprised to find that excluding forks of
>> skins, there are only __55 skins__ listed on MediaWiki.org. Out of those,
>> only 38 have been kept up to date.
>>
>> I can't believe that given the age of this project there are only 38
>> usable skins and I am writing to you in the hope that:
>>
>> 1) You know of others that can be added to MediaWiki.org in the "Skin"
>> namespace [4] Note, any edits to MediaWiki.org will automatically get
>> picked up by the tool and listed.
>> 2) If you build skins for closed source wikis, please consider publishing
>> them over the holiday period if you can!
>> 3) If you have fix skins that do not work with latest MediaWiki so I can
>> showcase them on the new tool.
>> 4) If you are inspired to make a new skin, possibly trying out the
>> starter kit tool I have created [3] which will construct a working zip file
>> that can be added to your local mediawiki and eventually github/gerrit and
>> give me feedback via Phabricator/email/github what can be improved.
>>
>> ******
>>
>> [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Desktop_improvements
>> [2] https://skins.wmflabs.org/?
>> [3] https://skins.wmflabs.org/?#/add
>> [4]
>>
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?action=edit&preload=Template%3ASkin%2FSample&title=Skin%3ANewSkin%20&venoscript=1
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