User blog:Schoolbus13/Two things I realized...

6,000!
I didn't even notice this until just now, but I've hit 6,000 edits! It's nice to see someone come a long way from July 4, 2009.

About Monaco....
After ENDLESS searching through Google, I've come up with this...unless you really like to be in a hole for a few months..then Monaco is impossible to get on almost every non-Wikia site. The reason is because that Wikia has heavily entwined with the skin, and removing all of the Wikia elements bit by bit would be a hard task. If you don't believe me, then search for it yourself. I mean, how much work HAS been done on our Monaco?

I did see one link to trunk source code here, but it comes with no manual, no user guide, NOTHING. Just the files needed for the skin. When I tried to install it on my test computer's wiki installation, it crashed.

Shoutwiki (another rival wiki farm) has done it..but it must have taken them endless months (or years?), so thus, that's one reason why it costs something; with so much effort put in to Monaco, it would be impossible to offer it free. As Kag said, don't look at anything wiki-related that's not free.

So I am not saying to give up hope on Monaco...but we need to start looking at our other skin options, and see what we could do to customize the other skins that MediaWiki 1.16 comes with, like Vector.

(If I see concrete evidence that it is possible to get Monaco on independent wikis [NOT ShoutWiki], then I will delete this section.)