This is awesome! Thanks Jon! I did notice one minor error: on https://skins.wmflabs.org/?#/add it says *sicenotice* instead of *sitenotice*.
Greg eQuality Technology *Let's work together* https://equality-tech.com follow us: https://twitter.com/eQualityTech *creators of https://QualityBox.us <https://QualityBox.us> * On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 6:37 PM Jon Robson <jrob...@wikimedia.org> 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 > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >
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