Please add Manual:How_to_make_a_MediaWiki_skin to the develop and extend code section. It's a great way for volunteers to get involved!
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Hmm, I don't think we should link to this. Making skins is a very arduous and not very well supported area still, despite Jon's excellent work of late…
Could you be more specific here about what is arduous in the process? To be clear I think we are talking about creating a skin for fun, not for use on Wikimedia servers, which is a very different thing.
I think creating a skin should be a lot easier now with the additional abstractions, and I want us to support it better to make it easier to maintain our own skins, and if it's not I'm keen to hear about what specifically doesn't make sense. I can't hear that feedback unless people are encouraged to develop skins... :-)
This is the very top level of prompts for something a new developer might want to do. Indeed, it was inserted above the previous single prompt of working on core itself, or on extensions; it should be added to that page, not re-prioritising such a thing so much.