[Wikia-l] new Monaco skin available...

[Timothy J. Crowell]

The default for Tech.wikia.com, already heavily customized.

-Timothy

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 9:09 PM, JohnQ <johnq at wikia.com> wrote:
> small correction... for heavily customized wikis, you can just add
>  "?useskin=monaco&usetheme=custom" (without quotes) to the end of any
>  page url to preview it. Right now the skin chooser lets admins set
>  "custom" but that sets it for the whole site... this way you can preview
>  without doing that.
>
>  Thanks,
>  John Q.
>
>
>
>
>  JohnQ wrote:
>  > Hi everyone,
>  >
>  > Last Friday we made Monaco the default on 1500 of the smallest wikis so
>  > that we could test it out in a variety of environments. We found a few
>  > issues that we've been working to fix before making it more generally
>  > available. I'm happy to announce that Monaco is now available in your
>  > skin preferences so that you can check out your wiki in this new skin.
>  > We consider this much more a successor to monobook and hope you like it.
>  >
>  > In the next few days, unless we find any blocking issues, all wikis that
>  > currently have a Quartz default will be changed to a Monaco default. If
>  > you want to switch it back, you can via the skin chooser. For the wikis
>  > with fairly heavy customization (ffxi, marveldatabase, dcdatabase,
>  > wookieepedia, etc.), there should already be a custom version of Monaco.
>  > To check it out in advance just select "Monaco - custom" for your
>  > personal skin preference (you may need to un-check "see custom" so that
>  > the overall wiki setting isn't overriding your personal choice).
>  >
>  > Some wikis have already set Monaco as the default skin by themselves:
>  > http://muppet.wikia.com  (admins, just go to skin preferences, scroll to
>  > the bottom to "Admin options" and you can set it there, too).
>  >
>  > There is a page here:
>  > http://inside.wikia.com/wiki/Monaco_Skin_Customization that talks in
>  > more depth about how to customize Monaco.
>  > There is a page here: http://inside.wikia.com/wiki/New_Skin_Chooser
>  > that talks about the skin chooser in more depth if you have questions
>  > about that.
>  >
>  > One nice thing about Monaco is that you can create your own personal
>  > sidebar and toolbox links (see the customization page for how to do that).
>  >
>  > Please take a look at your wiki with Monaco and let us know if you find
>  > any issues.
>  >
>  > Thanks
>  > John Q.
>  >
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