> On Oct 21, 2014, at 3:05 PM, James HK <jamesin.hongkon...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The Foreground and Chameleon skin both have dedicated advantages over
> the Vector skin.
I couldn’t agree more with the above statement and I’m excited about this
conversation. I think Semantic MediaWiki adopting a new skin with a modern look
& feel and modern features would be a nice change and allow Semantic MediaWiki
to better show it’s capabilities. In my limited experience whenever people see
Vector they think Wikipedia (for good reasons, one of the largest and greatest
sites on the Internet). When I show people my sites using Foreground they have
a different reaction, largely positive and pleasing.
As one of the maintainers of Foreground along with Tom let me take a moment to
advocate for using Foreground. Let me be very clear that I have nothing
negative to say about Chameleon. I haven’t used it myself so I can’t speak to
it’s advantages or weaknesses. I admire that it uses Travis-CI and has unit
tests as well as it’s support for composer, both things that are on our backlog
for Foreground.
Foreground is built on the Zurb Foundation framework. As such it has a feel
similar to Foundation. It uses the Foundation grid, and brings with it nearly
all of Foundations capabilities. Foreground has gained a good amount of
traction. According to WikiApiary there are 48 wikis using Foreground as their
*default* skin [1] and 174 wikis in total have Foreground installed. This makes
it the 7th most popular skin used on MediaWiki sites [2]. The Foreground
project on GitHub has gathered 30 stars along with 8 contributors and 54 closed
pull requests [3].
Foreground also has an active wiki that highlights itself, this can be enhanced
by anyone to further document it’s capabilities [4]. There is also a relatively
active mailing list for Foreground [5] (although the archives are currently
broken on the web).
I believe key to Foreground’s continued success are some of the wikis using it.
WikiApiary is built on Foreground and uses Semantic MediaWiki extensively, the
2nd largest Semantic MediaWiki site online [6] (as tracked by WikiApiary which
we know there are at least 2 very large Semantic MediaWiki sites not tracked,
so make it 4th). WikiTranslate also uses Foreground as does the Joomla
Documentation wiki [7].
Also importantly Foreground CSS has actually been modified to deal with many
Semantic MediaWiki result formats and Semantic Forms fields as well.
Again, take all this as one of the maintainers of Foreground advocating for
it’s use and not against other options.
Thanks for reading and for considering!
Jamie
[1] https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Skin:Foreground
<https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Skin:Foreground>
[2] https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Skin:Skins
<https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Skin:Skins>
[3] https://github.com/thingles/foreground
<https://github.com/thingles/foreground>
[4] http://foreground.thingelstad.com/wiki/Main_Page
<http://foreground.thingelstad.com/wiki/Main_Page>
[5] http://lists.thingelstad.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foreground-l
<http://lists.thingelstad.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foreground-l>
[6] https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Semantic_statistics
<https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Semantic_statistics>
[7] http://docs.joomla.org <http://docs.joomla.org/>
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7.
Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month.
Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications.
Take corrective actions from your mobile device.
http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho
_______________________________________________
Semediawiki-devel mailing list
Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel
