Aryeh Gregor wrote: > On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Paul Houle <p...@ontology2.com> wrote: >> Of all the code I've seen, the Mediawiki code seems to be one of >> the most difficult code bases to make simple changes in. When I had to >> change the template of a mediawiki once, the easiest answer I found was >> to put a proxy server in front of it, drop out the original template >> and spit the body text into a new template. (That said, this was a >> system I already had on the shelf that worked wonders for all sorts of >> commercial crapware) > > What do you mean by "change the template of a mediawiki"? Do you mean > templates in the MediaWiki sense, as in pages that can be transcluded > into other pages? Or do you mean the skin? Skin HTML can usually be > changed by just grepping a relevant class or id and editing some raw > HTML, or a pretty simple wrapper layer. It can't be changed without > hacking the code, so it's certainly a lot harder than in most popular > web apps, but I'm pretty sure you can do it more easily in almost all > cases than by postprocessing the HTML output.
Seems a Usability failure at developer users level. The proxying solution is completely wrong, yet WMF did it, too. And looking at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skinning it isn't friendly unless you already know what's it about. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
