Talk:A modern, scalable and attractive skin for MediaWiki

General comments
Hi, thanks for your proposal! Nice to see this problem now has some attention. Some things. --Nemo 08:08, 18 March 2014 (UTC) P.s.: First candidate from outside far East!
 * Throughout the proposal, it's not clear what things are going to happen in core and what in the skin itself/an extension. Please clarify body and title. For instance, if the focus is having a skin for/like wikiHow, I'd expect this to end up at wikiHow skin revamp or similar (much shorter).
 * Based on the clarifications above, I think the schedule needs some overhaul. It's not currently clear where the bulk of the work is going etc. I think you can't just let code review surface where things are need most work, leaving all such hard things to an afterthought/after-the-fact patching. I'd like you/us to use past skinning experience to identify the pain points beforehand.
 * How was wikiHow's skin chosen? Is wikiHow interested in using this new version? Is the skin representative of most of the issues most skins have, or how do you know that implementing this one skin will benefit others too? It would be nice for you to contact the authors of most important skins so that they can comment here.
 * With "works on the latest stable version of MediaWiki", do you mean 1.22 or which releases specifically?
 * Absolutely avoid this: "GitHub or Gitorious will be used as a backup". If the unlikely event of the repo being late, bully someone at San Francisco, get the gerrit admins' phone and call them, blackmail the goddess of git, whatever, but don't work on GitHub. We've seen very poor results from GSoC students who did so.
 * Thanks for mentioning i18n. How did you estimate that point, how big a pain point is it for custom skins in the wild? You only mention adding i18n support to one skin, what's your experience with MediaWiki i18n in general?