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Wiki theme?
« on: August 16, 2008, 10:51:27 am »
I got sick of people complaining about my white-on-black theme, so I finally did something about it. I reset MediaWiki to its default theme:
http://www.skullsecurity.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

I also tried out two other user-made themes that I liked:
http://www.skullsecurity.org/wiki2/index.php/Main_Page
http://www.skullsecurity.org/wiki3/index.php/Main_Page

Thoughts? What's your favourite?

I personally prefer wiki2.

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Re: Wiki theme?
« Reply #1 on: August 16, 2008, 12:48:48 pm »
I prefer wiki3 because it's what I'm used to seeing when I go to any kind of wiki.

EDIT: I would be much happier with wiki2 if the font matched that of wiki3.
« Last Edit: August 16, 2008, 12:53:11 pm by Metal Militia »
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Re: Wiki theme?
« Reply #2 on: August 16, 2008, 02:07:43 pm »
I liked the black.
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Re: Wiki theme?
« Reply #3 on: August 16, 2008, 03:39:35 pm »
I liked the black.
Yeah, the black was cool, but light-on-dark is more difficult to read, especially with a lot of text. Also, links and stuff were difficult to read on older monitors.

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Re: Wiki theme?
« Reply #4 on: August 16, 2008, 03:49:38 pm »
I prefer wiki3 because it's what I'm used to seeing when I go to any kind of wiki.

EDIT: I would be much happier with wiki2 if the font matched that of wiki3.

Agreed @ Wiki3. I like the cookie cutter wiki theme.


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Re: Wiki theme?
« Reply #5 on: August 17, 2008, 07:47:33 pm »
Same. Wikipedia still has my heart.

Wiki2 just looks too much like a generic blog-style site.
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Re: Wiki theme?
« Reply #6 on: August 18, 2008, 12:28:50 am »
I really like Wiki2. It's clean, simple, and easy to read :). Wiki 3 doesn't look nearly as good imo -- gradients against non-white backgrounds don't work for me.  :-\
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Re: Wiki theme?
« Reply #7 on: August 26, 2008, 06:28:26 pm »
So we decided to do things differently and we customized the wiki after the blog.

I personally like this look the best, by far. More hackerish, but still readable.

(note: it isn't 100% done)

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Re: Wiki theme?
« Reply #8 on: August 26, 2008, 07:04:19 pm »
I like that one a lot. A lot better than the dark blue on black hyperlinks.
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Re: Wiki theme?
« Reply #9 on: August 27, 2008, 01:42:46 pm »
External links are still blue on black, which is eww.

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Re: Wiki theme?
« Reply #10 on: August 27, 2008, 02:09:09 pm »
As I said, it isn't done yet. :P

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Re: Wiki theme?
« Reply #11 on: August 27, 2008, 03:19:43 pm »
Made some more changes, including that one. Still not done, but thoughts?

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Re: Wiki theme?
« Reply #12 on: August 27, 2008, 04:15:59 pm »
Yet another update -- made headings/links more yellowy/less greeny. It now matches a lot better with the blog:
http://www.skullsecurity.org/blog
http://www.skullsecurity.org/wiki

(incidentally, make sure you do a hard refresh (ctrl-f5 on firefox))
« Last Edit: August 27, 2008, 04:18:01 pm by iago »

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Re: Wiki theme?
« Reply #13 on: August 28, 2008, 08:39:14 pm »
(ctrl-f5 on firefox)

It's shift in Windows, and option in OSX :P

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Re: Wiki theme?
« Reply #14 on: August 28, 2008, 08:40:05 pm »
(ctrl-f5 on firefox)

It's shift in Windows, and option in OSX :P
My friend tried every control key in OSX, but none of them did a hard refresh. He had to clear his cache every time. (older version of OS X, though, so maybe it didn't understand it?)

<edit> from Wikipedia's editing page, "Mozilla / Firefox / Safari: hold Shift while clicking Reload, or press either Ctrl-F5 or Ctrl-R (Command-R on a Macintosh);" *shrug*