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[gHacks technology news] Wikipedia currently uses a skin called Monobook and has done so for over five years. Since Monobook was chosen, design trends have changed, as have web browsers and the way in which we surf.

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[Metavid Blog] Metavid Blog » Add Media Wizard and Firefogg on test.wikipedia.org: I am inviting people to check out the add media wizard and Firefogg on test.wikipedia.org.To help test go to you user preferences on that server and enable the add media wizard gadget. You can add general feedback here ... to your User: UserName/monobook.js page. (this will enable firefogg uploads”¦ but we have not yet enabled copy by url uploads on the other sites so you can't import resources from archive sites yet). Entry Filed under: coding, mediaWiki ...

[All The Modern Things] All The Modern Things: Links for 2009-06-13: I previously mentioned a wiki that uses a skin to imitate Wikipedia (Monobook inspired); turns out MoinMoin also has such a theme. CommonTag is “a new tagging format that creates references to concretely defined concepts with their own ... It should enable riskfree experimentation with all sorts of Web 2.0 innovations, social networking, and collaborative research and writing. Some will fail to add value. That doesn't matter. The point is not that all experiments will ...

[How to of the Day] How to Create a MediaWiki Skin Based on the MonoBook Skin: 9 steps ...: " /><![endif]--><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"href="/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Common.css&amp;usemsgcache=yes&amp;ctype=text%2Fcss&amp;action=raw" /><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="print"href="/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Print.css&amp;usemsgcache=yes&amp;ctype=text%2Fcss&amp;action=raw" /><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"href="/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Monobookmodified.css&amp;usemsgcache=yes&amp;ctype=text%2Fcss&amp;action=raw"/><link rel="stylesheet"href="/index.php?title=-&amp;action=raw&amp;ts=20090313183030&amp;gen=css" type="text/css"/>

[Untitled] Making Wikipedia fully accessible for all | ePractice: "MediaWiki is the web-based wiki software application used by all projects of the Wikimedia Foundation and many other wikis, including some of the largest and most popular ones. Originally developed to serve the needs of the free content Wikipedia encyclopedia, one of the highest traffic sites on the World Wide Web, today it has also been deployed by companies for internal knowledge management, and as a content management system.

[New styles] Wikipedia - Grey Lady | userstyles.org: This style sheet overhauls a number of Wikimedia sites (chief among them en.wikipedia.org) for simplicity, legibility and consistency. It replaces the default monobook look with a more classic encyclopedia-/textbook-like theme, turns the menus into the dropdown variety and reduces the number of sister article links (links to the same article on different-language wikipedias) to a more manageable level and allows you to customize which you want displayed (e.g.

[Directed Edge News] Directed Edge News » Blog Archive » Related Pages on Wikipedia via ...: we’re jumping out a few levels in the link structure and analyzing and ranking usually several thousand links in the neighborhood of the target page.  Often those pages are linked from the target page, but that’s hardly a surprise.  I come from a background of doing research in web-like search, so it’s no coincidence that our approach to finding related pages takes some hints from PageRank and other link-based approaches to sorting out the web.

[Lifehacker: not Politics, not Election] Add Dynamic Tooltips to Wikipedia - Research - Lifehacker: There's no bookmarklet, extension or third party web site required: simply add some code to your monobook.js (a special Wikipedia user page you must be logged in to access), and voila! You've got killer tooltips wherever you log in to .

[MyTestBox.com :: web software reviews, news, tips and tricks] MediaWiki (the software behind Wikipedia) release candidate 1.13 ...: Wikipedia, the online free encyclopedia and one of the most visited websites on the Internet, is powered by MediaWiki, This wiki software it is designed to run on a large server farm for a website which can get hundreds of thousands (and even millions) hits a day. It is a powerful piece of software, scalable and feature-rich wiki implementation.

[Comments for Joe Maller] Two little MonoBook styling hacks for MediaWiki: Recently, I've spent some time working with MediaWiki for Lila's school's web site. A small part of what I've been doing has been implementing an exisiting design onto the wiki backend.

[Intelligent Designs - Erik Möller's Blog] Intelligent Designs - Erik Möller's Blog » PediaX: Wikipedia 2.0 ...: For some reason or other, PediaX seems to lose focus on the main content area quite often, which means I have to click in the middle column to be able to scroll. It also doesn’t handle pages with lots of interlanguage links in the sidebar well;

[Coding Tools, Reviews, and Solutions] Installing and Customizing MediaWiki « Coding Tools, Reviews, and ...: So, here is how I got this going and the reasoning behind some of my choices.  Initially I installed all of the MediaWiki components individually and became discouraged because I wanted to get this up and running quickly and while I am fairly familiar with the LAMP / WAMP stack I am not an expert.  In order to get management interested I had to offer a no cost solution that could be shown to be installed, configured and running quickly.

[Usability Post] Wikipedia ”” Time for a Redesign? « Usability Post: (Naturally, the current default Monobook style would remain default unless the community liked your skin better, but registered users can make a personal choice of skins in their preferences.) Dmitry 6 Nov, 2008 ....

[Mind Your Own Business] google wiki: Monobook as a surface does a good job in hiding what the original .When I think further and look at the latest PhpWiki developments regarding Semantic Web and Wysiwyg, what I see is not just a plain Wiki but the basis, well, a framework for building future web applications.

[Andrew Beacock's Blog] Andrew Beacock's Blog: Firefox hack to display "accesskey ...: I didn't just want accesskey support in wikipedia, that was just a great example site that uses them "behind the scenes". I use this hack so that I don't have to try and find a help article on the site telling me what the accesskeys are.

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