Thread:Talk:Requests for comment/Scoping site CSS/Major customizations/reply

It was I that brought up nv wiki. I agree it's a great example of customisation and self expression however my main concerns lie around interface elements for users that flick between languages. Selected tabs change colours and the menus look different - user interfaces can be hard to learn and if things look somewhat different within the same problem this creates huge user experience problems.

I agree that people should be able to customise skins more easily but MediaWiki:Common.css is a terribly bad way of doing it. It leads to rules like this

where the first rule is overwritten in the css cascade. Ideally there should just be one rule: