Filament
A MediaWiki skin built on Yahoo’s Pure CSS framework, written mostly by Garrick van Buren with me in 2013.
- Status
- Retired Deliberately ended.
- Dates
- Started Jun 6, 2013
- Where
- github.com/jthingelstad/filament
- Topics
- MediaWiki
- Latest evidence
- Latest commit, Nov 29, 2013
Filament is a MediaWiki skin that uses Yahoo’s Pure CSS framework. Its README calls it “a MediaWiki skin that focuses on your content,” the same aim as Foreground, which uses the heavier Zurb Foundation framework. Like Foreground, it was a project of WikiWonders, the MediaWiki project business I never got off the ground, and was published under that name with a 2-clause BSD license.
Garrick van Buren wrote most of it. The repository carries Foreground’s early history, and on June 6, 2013 Garrick began the Pure version; I updated it to Pure 0.2.0 and fixed asset paths. Karsten Hoffmeyer added a German translation and license fixes in November 2013, the last change to the code.
A demo wiki ran on my wiki farm at filament.thingelstad.com. By March 2014 its main page said the demo was blank and pointed visitors to GitHub. The repository is archived.
Activity
46 commits (11 by me, 35 by others), the first on May 21, 2013.
The latest weeks with activity
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Week of Nov 25, 2013 3 commits (1 by me, 2 by others)
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Week of Jul 1, 2013 5 commits (1 by me, 4 by others)
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Week of Jun 24, 2013 2 commits (1 by me, 1 by others)
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Week of Jun 17, 2013 12 commits (2 by me, 10 by others)
All activity, week by week. Who made each commit is from its author and co-author lines.
Sources and evidence
Observed daily from GitHub, sitemaps, feeds, the Internet Archive, and Tinylytics. Evidence never sets a status.
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jthingelstad/filament implementation archived on GitHub
MediaWiki skin based of the Pure CSS framework.
- Repository created Jun 6, 2013 (a development record, not a launch date)
- CSS, PHP, JavaScript
- Latest commit Nov 29, 2013; 0 commits on master between Jul 20, 2026 and Oct 18, 2026
- Observed Oct 18, 2026
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web.archive.org/web/20140302063203/http://filament.thingelstad.com/wiki/Main_Page demo
- First archived Mar 2, 2014 by the Internet Archive (existence evidence, not a launch date)
- Observed Oct 18, 2026
Commits and publications per month, last twelve months.
Connections
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Filament grew out of Foreground
Filament’s repository history begins with Foreground’s first commits, and Garrick van Buren started the Pure version from that code in June 2013. Source