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If you were to design a MediaWiki skin, what would you change from the default (Monobook) layout?
MediaWiki is the open-source wiki software that Wikipedia uses. It can be skinned, and can vary quite a bit, from the default Monobook skin (< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page?useskin=mon... >) to the upcoming Vector skin (< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page?useskin=vec... >) to wildly different custom skins like the one the They Might Be Giants wiki uses (< http://tmbw.net/ >). If you designed your own skin, what would you change from Monobook?
MyWikiBiz, this is specifically a *layout* question. It has *nothing whatsoever* to do with content. Blanking content from individual contributors would be handled in the parser and/or by an extension and *not* by a skin.
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
I'd make it more colorful and put all the links on the side. The TMBG one is really cool looking I didn't know they had a Wiki!
- Anonymous1 decade ago
I would set up the skin so that any content that was added by an abusive, idiotic, blow-hard Wikipedia administrator (as identified by the User, or perhaps a consortium of the skin's developer's choosing) would either be rendered in white text (so you couldn't really see it), or it would just be deleted from the source code altogether.
I don't get caught up so much in skins as a design challenge. It's more important that the content itself be adaptive to the User's wishes.
Source(s): WikiTrust: http://wikitrust.soe.ucsc.edu/ - Anonymous1 decade ago
I would give the article history tab greater prominence than the edit tab.