Hello, several templates (see the list near the end of this mail) are using inline CSS (style=...). It would be a good idea to move those styles into the CSS files to unify the styling and to reduce the maintenance effort in case we want to change some styles in the whole wiki one day. This is even more important for templates that are used as page templates because those are copied to the new page (which means we'd have to change all pages based on this template). Basically there are two ways how to handle this: a) easy, but requires wiki admin rights - create a CSS class at http://en.opensuse.org/MediaWiki:Common.css - change the template to use that CSS class (class=... instead of style=...) - from time to time, move all styles from MediaWiki:Common.css to the CSS files b) with delay, but possible for everybody - send a mail to this list with the code for the CSS class - wait until someone (Robert?) has added it to the CSS files - change the template to use that CSS class As you can see, a) is easier. If you want to cleanup lots of the templates, you should probably request admin permissions ;-) I'll give an example what you need to do. Template:Weekly_news_full contains several sections like <div style="background-color:#E5E5E6;text-align:center;color:#000000"> ==Editors Note== </div> This should be changed to a) CSS code: .weekly-news-header { background-color:#E5E5E6; text-align:center; color:#000000 } b) wiki code: <div class="weekly-news-header"> ==Editors Note== </div> If you find out that some templates use similar styles, try to merge them into one CSS class. For example, Template:Warning and Template:Info use nearly the same styling except of the color. This means you can create a common class for both and an additional class for each of them that only changes the color. There might also be cases where useless or broken CSS is included (see my change in Template:Event [1] for an example) - you should just remove those things and wait if someone complains ;-) Unfortunately I don't have the time to do all this myself, but I can help if needed and/or if you have questions. To get something grep-able, I wrote a small script that downloads all templates from the english wiki. It's attached to this mail. (To avoid that the wiki gets overloaded, I included a "sleep 1" after each download.) List of templates containing "style=" Template:Alphabet_index Template:Article_with_side_navigation Template:Box Template:Box-footer Template:Box-header Template:Category_box Template:Cellno Template:Celltodo Template:Cellyes Template:Cleanup Template:Delete Template:DesktopTable Template:Edu Template:Event Template:Expand Template:Forbidden Template:Foundation_navigation Template:GNOME Template:Hack_proj Template:Hack_proj+1 Template:HL Template:Icon_step Template:Info Template:Infobox Template:Intro Template:KDE Template:Knowledge Template:LaptopTable Template:LaptopTable2 Template:LaptopTable2_Remark Template:LegendMedical Template:List_subpages Template:LXDE Template:Med Template:Merge Template:Move Template:Moved_to_external Template:Move_to_hcl Template:Move_to_portal Template:Move_to_sdb Template:Multiple_image Template:Navbar Template:Navigation_Desktops Template:Navigation_Hardware Template:Navigation_Laptops Template:No_article_template Template:Obsolete Template:Petite Template:Point_here Template:Portal Template:Portal_50-50 Template:Quotation Template:Random_portal_component Template:Sandbox Template:Screenshot_step Template:Screenshot_step_2 Template:Screenshot_step_big Template:Section Template:Section_cleanup Template:Special_info Template:Speed_delete Template:Stats Template:Strikethrough Template:Support_question_help Template:Teams Template:Tested_on Template:Update Template:Userpage Template:Version Template:Version_note Template:VersionNote Template:Warning Template:Weekly_news_full Template:Weekly_news_header Template:Weekly_news_header_new Template:Weekly_news_light Template:Wiki_question_help Template:Wireless_table Template:Xfce Regards, Christian Boltz [1] http://en.opensuse.org/index.php?title=Template%3AEvent&action=historysubmit&diff=43487&oldid=38353 -- Look at Debian... its stable, works on a variety of platforms.... and development is racing along at the speed of a turtle with 3 broken legs. [Joseph M. Gaffney in opensuse]