[Design] [Wikitech-l] Question: Should wikimedia wikis such as wikipedia be updated with a user frendly desgn

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Whatever happened to Winter? It's not coming, AFAICT...

Yes. See the "Winter" thread on the design mailing list:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/design/2015-July/thread.html

There are three avenues for appearance development
* User JS+CSS and gadgets.
* Iterate on Vector as Beta features (sadly "Compact personal bar" and
"Fixed header" are no longer offered as Beta Features due to bugs).
* Prototype and refine new skins.

Regards,

There is some work about getting the mobile skin on desktop (T71366
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T71366>), and Blueprint
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:Blueprint> powers the Living Style
Guide.
However, no matter how ancient Vector may look, the little updates it
has received over the years make me think it isn't that bad for those
who use it.

Hi this is a question but shoulden Wikimedia wikis such as Wikipedia

be updated with a user friendly design. Currently vector is coming out of
date because now a days you see sites with bruitiful colours not old ones
as they were in 2010 when vector came out. We could create another skin

to

replace vector as we did with monobook or update vector with a new look
that has bold colours and goes along with mediawiki code and is also

mobile

optimised even though we have the mobilefrontend extension some users may
not want to install instead hoping the skin is mobile optimised.

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