Design of the wiki

hightower · 2006-09-09 15:34:00

Hi,

the design of the official arch wiki http://wiki.archlinux.org/ looks a bit messy compared to its german counterpart http://wiki.archlinux.de/?title=Hauptseite. As far as I know, both use mediawiki, so it wouldn't be that difficult to change the theme.

hightower

iBertus · 2006-09-09 15:59:34

I seem to remember the Arch wiki having a more simple look when we first migrated to mediawiki.

Cirdan · 2006-09-09 16:55:43

Yea, I agree...the them on the German counterpart with the boxes on the side look better. More clean like you said...

byte · 2006-09-09 21:50:47

If you have a wiki account you could try switching to a different theme in your preferences. And don't forget about the "Remember me" checkbox upon login.

hightower · 2006-09-10 08:55:35

No one of the other themes supports the unified header of the archlinux.org hompage family.

hightower

Pierre · 2006-09-10 09:06:10

You can download my theme from my repository at http://svn.laber-land.de/archlinux.de/trunk/wiki/skins/ (You will need the Archlinux*.php files and the archlinux folder)

hightower · 2006-09-10 13:08:50

If I'm right, Pierre has created the theme for the german wiki.
Pierre, would you agree that the archlinux.org wiki uses your theme?
If yes, I'll file a bug report.

hightower

Pierre · 2006-09-10 13:14:41

Sure you are allowed. This is not really my design; I just put it together with monobook as base.

hightower · 2006-09-10 13:50:50

I've detected a minor bug:

Look at the search field, I think it has something to to with min-width, but I couldn't identify the responsible style sheet.

[URL=http://img228.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wikiarchlinuxdetb3.png] wikiarchlinuxdetb3.th.png [/URL]

Here can you find the bug report: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/5382

hightower

Pierre · 2006-09-10 13:57:44

Which browser do you use? This problem does not affect current versions of firefox, konqueror or opera.

hightower · 2006-09-10 14:04:59

I use version 1.5.0.6 of firefox, but I've set my minimal font size to 13, with 12 there's no problem.

hightower

Pierre · 2006-09-10 14:10:02

Ok that should be the problem. Best value for this should be 10.

Romashka · 2006-09-15 21:42:01

An answer to this post:
I tried to fix it in IE 6 but no success. Take a look at changes related to #column-one, .portlet, #p-cactions and #p-navigation that were made comparing to original MediaWiki theme.

syd · 2006-09-15 23:10:50

The german one looks much nicer too bad i can read german.

I think the side bar should have the howto categorys in it. My shortcut to the wiki goes straight to the howto section.
The side bar at the moment is way too clutered.

Pierre · 2006-09-16 15:06:12

I would be happy if someone find a way how to get it displayed right in ie. But I think this is no fun and I think there are only very few people who are browsing an linux-wiki with ie (except the spam-bots ;-))

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