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Dan Fisher

12 Dec 2013 12 Dec '13

3 a.m.

I tried a footer extension to add a Wiki-editable footer on all pages of a site but it adds it before the categories. Does anyone know of an extension which adds a footer in the same area, as the Copyright/about stuff?

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Quim Gil

12 Dec 12 Dec

8:15 p.m.

On 12/11/2013 07:00 PM, Dan Fisher wrote:

I tried a footer extension to add a Wiki-editable footer on all pages of a site but it adds it before the categories. Does anyone know of an extension which adds a footer in the same area, as the Copyright/about stuff?

Just checking whether you are aware of all the editable elements a MediaWiki footer offers out of the box: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Footer -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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Forest S

15 Dec 15 Dec

9:39 p.m.

In a program as sophisticated as Mediawiki, it seems like there are two ways to do something like this. One is elegant but requires a deep knowledge of the APIs, etc. of Mediawiki and the other is more quick and dirty. I am a huge fan of the quick and dirty way for people who are confident in their technical skills but who don't have the time to learn about the innards of Mediawiki. (Especially given the sparse documentation.) In this case, quick and dirty means editing the PHP file that runs the Vector skin to insert raw HTML where you want it to go. You have to know PHP to do this, but the footer area is clearly marked by HTML comments in Vector. I'll be happy to provide more hints on how to do this if you are interested (I can't hold you hand through everything, of course). You shouldn't do it unless you are prepared to break some things and then fix them again. In addition to other precautions, such as testing all edits on a separate installation of your site, you may wish to clone the Vector skin so that you have an untouched version of Vector that people can switch back to. See the following thread in this mailing list for details: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/mediawiki/414377 I hope to revive the above thread by going ahead in the coming weeks after I have a chance to install a PHP debugger and work on another couple projects Forest On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 10:00 PM, Dan Fisher <danfisher261(a)gmail.com> wrote:

I tried a footer extension to add a Wiki-editable footer on all pages of a site but it adds it before the categories. Does anyone know of an extension which adds a footer in the same area, as the Copyright/about stuff? _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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go moko

10:22 p.m.

----- Original Message -----

From: Forest S <forest(a)tmswiki.org> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2013 10:39 PM Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Add site-wide footer to all pages In a program as sophisticated as Mediawiki, it seems like there are two ways to do something like this. One is elegant but requires a deep knowledge of the APIs, etc. of Mediawiki and the other is more quick and dirty. I am a huge fan of the quick and dirty way for people who are confident in their technical skills but who don't have the time to learn about the innards of Mediawiki. (Especially given the sparse documentation.) In this case, quick and dirty means editing the PHP file that runs the Vector skin to insert raw HTML where you want it to go. You have to know PHP to do this, but the footer area is clearly marked by HTML comments in Vector. I'll be happy to provide more hints on how to do this if you are interested (I can't hold you hand through everything, of course). You shouldn't do it unless you are prepared to break some things and then fix them again. In addition to other precautions, such as testing all edits on a separate installation of your site, you may wish to clone the Vector skin so that you have an untouched version of Vector that people can switch back to. See the following thread in this mailing list for details: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/mediawiki/414377 I hope to revive the above thread by going ahead in the coming weeks after I have a chance to install a PHP debugger and work on another couple projects Forest On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 10:00 PM, Dan Fisher <danfisher261(a)gmail.com> wrote:

I tried a footer extension to add a Wiki-editable footer on all pages of a site but it adds it before the categories. Does anyone know of an extension which adds a footer in the same area, as the Copyright/about stuff? _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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You can also do it with javascript, without modifying Vector skin and without deep knowledge of Mediawiki.

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Wjhonson

16 Dec 16 Dec

5:07 p.m.

I believe you can accomplish this without a knowledge of PHP or JavaScript either. But rather only by modifying your local settings copy and inserting a raw HTML string.... -----Original Message----- From: go moko <gomoko(a)yahoo.com> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Sent: Sun, Dec 15, 2013 6:52 pm Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Add site-wide footer to all pages ----- Original Message -----

From: Forest S <forest(a)tmswiki.org> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2013 10:39 PM Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Add site-wide footer to all pages In a program as sophisticated as Mediawiki, it seems like there are two ways to do something like this. One is elegant but requires a deep knowledge of the APIs, etc. of Mediawiki and the other is more quick and dirty. I am a huge fan of the quick and dirty way for people who are confident in their technical skills but who don't have the time to learn about the innards of Mediawiki. (Especially given the sparse documentation.) In this case, quick and dirty means editing the PHP file that runs the Vector skin to insert raw HTML where you want it to go. You have to know PHP to do this, but the footer area is clearly marked by HTML comments in Vector. I'll be happy to provide more hints on how to do this if you are interested (I can't hold you hand through everything, of course). You shouldn't do it unless you are prepared to break some things and then fix them again. In addition to other precautions, such as testing all edits on a separate installation of your site, you may wish to clone the Vector skin so that you have an untouched version of Vector that people can switch back to. See the following thread in this mailing list for details: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/mediawiki/414377 I hope to revive the above thread by going ahead in the coming weeks after I have a chance to install a PHP debugger and work on another couple projects Forest On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 10:00 PM, Dan Fisher <danfisher261(a)gmail.com> wrote:

I tried a footer extension to add a Wiki-editable footer on all pages of a site but it adds it before the categories. Does anyone know of an extension which adds a footer in the same area, as the Copyright/about stuff? _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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You can also do it with javascript, without modifying Vector skin and without deep knowledge of Mediawiki. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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