Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-22224-20180521161500/@comment-24155515-20180523153306

Tupka217 wrote: Romartus wrote: That's interesting. Is Wikipedia thinking of a skin change as well?

You'd have to ask them. They have Vector now.

As explained several times above, it's not about the Monobook (or Wikia's fork of it) skin itself. It's about the added workload for a product that's on the chopping block anyway.

I looked this up after first seeing this thread the other day. I'm a Monobook user on Wikipedia. The English Wikipedia has no plans that I can find to retire any skins (I'd imagine they'd have provided warning, like a sitenotice or something).

The only discussions I can find about it that are accessible from links on the English Wikipedia are on the policy Village Pump in April which links to the February 2018 MediaWiki mailing list, which contains a thread of messages on the topic.

Other related things to Wikimedia as a whole:


 * Phabricator: MediaWiki and GDPR
 * Phabricator: How does the GDPR affect Wikimedia sites and Wikibase instances?
 * Another Phabricator issue that references a lot of other issues
 * This 53-minute YouTube video

I can't find anything involving changing or retiring skins of any type; I'm pretty sure Wikia's issue is they don't want to have to run parallel tracking systems or something. Which I'm still mad about. Just less outwardly now.