Affected components: Skin, TemplateParser, Selected(and stable) skins: Modern/CologneBlue/Monobook, potentially API Engineer(s) or team for initial implementation: (Ideally) Core Platform + Web Motivation There is dissatisfaction with the existing skin system. I recently documented this in a blog post Why does building a skin require PHP knowledge? As far as I can see the main issues being: It’s difficult to create a new skin unless you have a wide range of skills including knowledge of PHP and backend technologies as well as mediawiki internals Deploying an existing skin into production adds a huge maintenance burden given the lack of boundaries to the skin system It is difficult to...
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When you think of a beard competition, you probably picture men with varying styles of facial hair on display. But bodacious beards aren’t just for those with XY chromosomes. A growing number of women who’ve embraced the popularity of men’s beard competitions have put their own unique spin on it — and with homemade whiskers. Male beard competitions have existed in America for over a decade. Phil Olsen, founder of Beard Team USA and organizer of the World Beard and Moustache Championships, said that since 2003, when he first established contests and beard groups in the U.S., they have sprung up across the country. They have a traditionally male audience, and the categories, which refer to “...
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In 1991, filming began today for Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, which reassembled the Original Series cast for a prescient look at the end of the Cold War. With Star Trek: The Next Generation in its celebrated fourth season and the Star Trek movie series essentially moribund after the critically loathed Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Paramount Pictures considered ditching William Shatner and the rest of the original cast for a prequel set at Starfleet Academy, with cheap, young and unknown actors. But Spock actor Leonard Nimoy pitched a promising idea: Star Trek's take on perestroika and the Cold War. Rather than a liberalizing Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachev and a crumbling...
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How to shave a thin mustache. 7 great mustaches that define Russian history - Russia Beyond Facial hair has been a potent topic throughout Russian history. To Ivan the Terrible, a man without a beard was a heretic; under Peter the Great, a bearded man was considered an uncultured boor. Famous horseshoe mustache. The stand-alone mustache, on the other hand, took a while to work its way into Russian men’s and reached peak popularity at some point in time between the full-bearded Tsar Nicholas II and the clean-shaven President Vladimir Putin. It’s Movember, so what better time to focus on the male upper lip? Through these seven figures, see how the Russian ‘stache has...
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A solid moustache is frequently abetted by one key item: mustache wax – and it’s an alternate brute to the stuff for your head. The mustache is regularly the primary facial hair a young fellow develops, so its appearance denotes the progress from kid into man. As the upper lip is delicate and might be inclined to ingrown hairs, numerous men choose to develop it in. Others simply like the look of a wellbeing ‘stache. Regardless of whether your mustache is a lasting installation, similar to that of on-screen character Tom Selleck, or more transitory, your facial hair will profit by cautious preparing and styling. On the off chance that you’ve at any point appreciated a great...
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