Board Thread:New Features/@comment-24739709-20150518230347/@comment-4189499-20150605080754

Dessamator wrote: Beyond that, Special:Mypage/common.css is as equally restricted as Special:CSS, so other people can't simply look at someone's css and change it directly. False. You can go look at other people's personal CSS. For example, to use a random other user, you can see User:CzechOut/wikia.css just fine and can copy any you like. You can't edit it, but you don't need to edit it to copy and use it.

Anyway, if you're planning on styling templates for wikis you're not an admin on en masse, or even if you want to change a lot of CSS on wikis you are an admin on but don't want to make things look worse while you're still trying out various things, then I recommend you get a test wiki. On your own test wiki, you can mess with as much styling as you'd like without interrupting others' editing, allowing you to try things out and have them fail without it hampering others. You can ask Staff to enable as many extensions as you need to properly test templates for your home wiki, and you can organise your CSS as you wish without having to worry about messing up any standards set beforehand. On top of that, if you write your CSS on separate pages in your test wiki, you can just get people to import the styling from your test wiki into their personal CSS to see what it looks like before approving it, or you could even just constantly restyle your test wiki to match the look of the wiki you're templating for so the admins of that wiki can view what the template looks like on your test wiki before approving the CSS. It is ridiculous how handy having a test wiki is.