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Subject:    [MediaWiki-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] GSoC proposal "Frontend for Vector skin CSS customizations" (Ioannis
From:       Quim Gil <qgil () wikimedia ! org>
Date:       2014-03-26 18:45:38
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Hi, this project is geared towards third party MediaWikis, and this is why
it is becoming more difficult for us to find a mentor among the usual
suspects (WMF employees, usually focusing in features relevant to Wikimedia
projects). If anybody here familiar with development of extensions wants to
volunteer as mentor, let me know. Questons? Just ask.

It is urgent -- see
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2014

Thank you.

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From: *Quim Gil* <qgil@wikimedia.org>
Date: Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Subject: [Wikitech-l] GSoC proposal "Frontend for Vector skin CSS
customizations" (Ioannis Protonotarios)
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org>


Hi, we are still welcoming mentors for this interesting proposal

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 6:58 PM, Ιωάννης � ρωτονοτάριος <
ioannis@protonotarios.eu> wrote:
> My proposal is the creation of a frontend that will help users with little
> or no experience at all to easily produce all the CSS needed to change
their
> wiki's layout.
>
> Full proposal wiki page:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Protnet/Frontend_for_Vector_skin_CSS_customizations

The implementation proposed consists in MediaWiki extension depending on
the Vector skin. The plan sounds sensible and fitting with the discssion of
finding ways for 3rd party MediaWikis to differentiate from plain MediaWiki
and Wikimedia sites. The proposal also shows a good amount of original
thought and work.

We *might* get a secondary mentor from the WMF Design team to support the
UI work and also the possibilities of CSS customization options that
MediaWiki admins might be interested about. We miss a developer familiar
with MediaWiki extension developer. I'm not an expert, but this extension
looks relatively simple in terms of backend? It is an interface to
manipulate MediaWiki:Common.css.

Ideas for related bugs that can be assigned to Ioannis as microtasks are
also welcome. Just name existing bug reports requiring skills relevant to
this project.

Thank you.

--
Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil


-- 
Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
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