Abstract

The current footer area has multiple issues and needs redesign on the theme / presentation level as well as in the code responsible for preparing the data shown there.

Details

Footer area presentation has these issues:

• moin-pagebottom looks bad and misplaced (remove the display: none to see), because it visually interrupts the slightly coloured content background and the coloured footer editbar

• this info should be in the footer area where the credits are, above them.
• some stuff is centered, but maybe it would be better to just align left, modify css as needed
• maybe this footer area could be similarly simple as the mediawiki.org one?

Footer area data preparation / passing / configuration:

• stuff in moin-pagebottom is just a few bits from current revision metadata formatted in a nice way - can we generalize this? do we want?
• how to customize credits line best? configuration? template?

• WikiLicense / Terms stuff could also live there in the footer.

• Additional optional lines (for what?)

Think about a good, flexible and simple way to handle all this before coding. Discuss your ideas with the moin devs on #moin-dev IRC channel or on the wiki.

Note: please keep the custom HTML (e.g. 'html_before_header', 'html_after_header', 'html_before_footer', 'html_after_footer') for compatibility reasons for now.

Benefits

Looks better, more flexible, less code maybe?

Skill Requirements

See tags.

Links

• http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/2.0-dev repository of moin2

• http://moinmo.in/MoinMoinChat

You can discuss this issue in the MoinMoin wiki: http://moinmo.in/EasyToDo/redesign%20theme%20footer