[Wikia-l] quick update...

[JohnQ]

as soon as we can. :)  Our usual rollout pattern for MediaWiki upgrades, 
etc. is we start with the 1500 wikis that have the least traffic (which 
we're doing now). Next week on Monday we'll turn this on for a few of 
the larger wikis (Muppet, MarvelDatabase, DCDatabase) and others who 
request... and if no issues show up we'll be rolling this out very 
quickly. But to be honest, once we enable it in preferences, admins can 
then set it as the default all on their own.

Thanks,
John Q.


Leia Yeung wrote:
> Are new wikis going to be shown with the Monaco skins anytime soon?
>
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 3:22 PM, JohnQ <johnq at wikia.com 
> <mailto:johnq at wikia.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi everyone,
>
>     Two things I wanted to cover quickly.
>
>     1. A while ago we talked about a new skin that we were developing and
>     showed some screen shots... that skin (Monaco) is now ready for
>     rollout
>     and can be previewed here: http://communitytest.wikia.com (keep in
>     mind
>     it's a test site... not much interesting content). Go to
>     http://communitytest.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Preferences to select
>     one of
>     the Monaco skins. On Monday, we'll be enabling this so that it is in
>     everyone's preferences on all wikis ... we'd appreciate getting your
>     feedback all through next week before we start enabling this as the
>     default on more wikis. One nice feature is the ability to build
>     your own
>     personal sidebar by creating a user sub-page. You can check out
>     more on
>     how to customize the Monaco skin here:
>     http://inside.wikia.com/wiki/Monaco_Skin_Customization .
>
>     2. As part of the work on this skin, the underlying widget
>     framework was
>     rewritten to be smaller and faster. Unfortunately, this meant we
>     had to
>     reset the list of widgets... so if you had dropped any on your
>     sidebar,
>     you'll need to pull those down again.
>     http://inside.wikia.com/wiki/Widgets
>
>     You can see a list of new features (both released and about to be
>     released) here: http://inside.wikia.com/wiki/What%27s_New
>
>     Thanks,
>     John Q.
>
>
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