User blog:Saunt3D/Feature Suggestion: Open Theme Editor

The theme editor is a fantastic tool for admins to control the aesthetic of their wikis, but being an admin and being a graphic designer are two separate things, and as it stands admins have to be the ones to deal with it either way.

I'm not suggesting editors have access to editing the wiki theme. Rather, what I'm suggesting is setting up a separate namespace for wiki themes and allowing editors to use the theme editor to create their own, just as the interactive maps system works.


 * Admins would not need to force themselves to set up something that may or may not be within their skillset/interests.
 * Any editor could create a theme, and the admins could select any of these themes to activate across the wiki.
 * Communities could vote for their favorite themes, increasing engagement.
 * Non-admin users could experience the theme editor for themselves.
 * Activating entire themes at once in CSS for select pages, such as for wikis that have sub-wikis covering smaller topics related to the main topic, would be far more accessible.
 * Themes could potentially be made available through personal selection. Users could design their own wiki themes and activate them for their own wiki experience, even if it doesn't affect anyone else's experience.
 * Wikis that update their themes for new releases could present the option to return to past themes on a user-to-user basis, or simply have alternate themes readily available for this purpose.
 * Seasonal wiki themes could be reused a bit more easily from year to year. As a single unit that can be activated, it wouldn't require digging through the theme history to find the specific edit from a previous year.

I suggested this on the Stars Discord a while back, but I wanted to write it out somewhere, and figured this would be the perfect place. Thanks for reading!