Topic on Talk:Download from Git

I was recently installing MediaWiki with someone who did it for the first time. The skins part was what I saw them struggling most with.

I think that's mainly because:

• It's so late in the manual
• It doesn't mention anywhere before you'll have to install skins (if it's supposed to stay where it is, it should be mentioned before that the step is necessary)
• The section itself links to another tutorial, for beginners it would be nicer to have a quick "How to set up the Vector skin and here is a link to how to work with all the other skins if you know what they do already"

I would like to change it in the way suggested but am open for feedback. Therefore I thought I mention it here and see if there are other/opposing opinions.

The proposed changes sound reasonable to me. Many of our docs are written by people with very deep knowledge of how our software is intended to be used. That perspective often leads to docs that very precisely correct but not necessarily easy to follow. Copy editing always welcome! The worst thing that could possibly happen is a revert. :)