Aren't these practically the same thing? Given that there isn't a formal review process to make this determination I think it suffices to have one or the other.
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No. They're not same. This is literally explained in the page
The keyword was "practically". Experimental to me means incomplete which is a type of broken. "Unmaintained" also overlaps in the event that the skin has broken because it hasn't been maintained. So I guess the bigger question is whether this label exists to track the specific development progress of the skin, which in itself is a burden to maintain and difficult to qualify without a standard of review, or whether it exists to tell a potential wiki admin whether the skin is in a deployable state or not, which is fairly apparent from trial and error. Is there an objection to condensing the status values with the goal of being more objective and informative?
"Experimental to me", that shows you're applying your own definition, and ignoring the contextual definition given there. If that's the case, then there's no difference; but to you, of course.
To every other person reading the template doc:
- unstable label means broken - do not use this skin.
- experimental label means this is in early stages of development and may change drastically.
This may or may not conform with how the terms are used elsewhere, and that's fine. But here, and in this template more specifically, that's how they should be used.