Cross-posting from Gerrit. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/25170/
I support this change because: - 1. Getting rid of legacy templates simplifies our template system and makes it much easier for us to improve it or migrate existing skins to a new system. - 2. The user experience while using legacy skins is horrible. CologneBlue, Modern and Monobook are pretty bad. Vector is are barely adequate. We should be focused on improving Vector (or making a new skin) so our users can have at least one excellent skin. Anything that distracts from that focus is a waste of effort that doesn't help users. - 3. The statistics I've seen about people who are using legacy skins shows that they are a very small subset (easily less than 1%) and a majority of the accounts appear to be abandoned. I would love to see some hard numbers be shared here as well though. - Trevor On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 11:56 PM, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 25 October 2012 02:15, Sumana Harihareswara <suma...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > > > Sometimes we have to shed some backwards compatibility. And it sounds > > like removing support for these particular skins will enable us to > > innovate and move faster. But it's a good idea to publicize this sort > > of thing so legacy skin users can say "I'll maintain the legacy support > > because I love this skin so much!", or prepare to reskin, or find some > > new third way. :-) > > > Do we have any numbers on e.g. how many Wikimedia users use these skins? > > > - d. > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
