This is a proposal to enable strapping-mediawiki in mediawiki.org as an optional skin marked as EXPERIMENTAL, for testing purposes. This is NOT a request to include this skin as part of MediaWiki or to support it officially.
"Strapping is an elegant, responsive, and friendly starter skin for MediaWiki. Its purpose is to provide a good base to build upon, and was primarily created to provide a great default for wiki-as-a-website — but it works well for standard wikis too."
https://github.com/OSAS/strapping-mediawiki
http://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Skin:Strapping
Not only is something fresh and pretty neat. It also relies on a solid foundation:
http://twitter.github.io/bootstrap/
There is an instance for testing at
https://wikitech-test.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page?useskin=strapping
However, there is nothing like testing a skin in the wiki you work all day.
This skin happens to have some common elements with https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Athena (all navigation in the header followed by 100% content body). I guess we could even play with it in combination with Agora's CSS. All this to say that this proposal is not departing or far-off from our trends and plans.
While we are busy developing other things, someone else is taking care of potential foundations or source for inspiration like Strapping and strapping-mediawiki (and this is good). So why not paying more attention and allow mediawiki.org users to contribute some testing and potentially feedback. I would give it a try and even use it as default if it's not utterly broken.
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement