I wont spoil all the fun for you. This is broken in some small way - it writes out the new link instead of changing all the links. I developed it in the firefox address bar, using the firefox error console to let me know when it was broken.
javascript:links=document.getElementsByTagName("a");for (var link in links){if(links[link].className=="new"){links[link].href=' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27+links%5Blink%5D.innerHTML%7D%7D
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Ekompute .info ekompute@gmail.com wrote:
LOL, from the frying pan into the fire! Thank you, Brian, for taking your time. I guess I will have to live with it for a while.
(P/S: I know that modifying mediawiki directly is bad and that's why I dare not upgrade.)
PM Poon
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Brian Brian.Mingus@colorado.edu wrote:
I don't like modifying mediawiki directly because the changes often get lost during upgrades, but if you can find a way to do that OK.. Probably isn't too hard to find grepping through the source.
Otherwise, you might try jQuery if you are new to javascript, since it abstracts a lot of complicated things away:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/179713/how-to-change-the-href-for-a-hyper...
You basically have to figure out how to say, "Take all hyperlinks in
class
new and change their href attribute to be
http://en.wikipedia.org/wikiplus
their innerHTML attribute"
I just learned that using FireBug.
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:55 PM, Ekompute .info ekompute@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, I find it so difficult even after I download Firebug. The right
panel
didn't say anything of Comon.css and Common.js, only main.css.
How about tweaking the mediawiki files? Maybe I will find that easier because I do go in and tinker with it, sometimes.
PM Poon
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Ekompute .info ekompute@gmail.com
wrote:
Hahaha, when one does not know, everything is difficult.... Let me
give
it
a try.
PM Poon
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Brian Brian.Mingus@colorado.edu
wrote:
Download Firefox and the FireBug extension. Open FireBug, click the inspect button. Click on a red link. FireBug will show you all the code
related
to it. You can override the css and javascript by editing the wiki
files
MediaWiki:Common.css and MediaWiki:Common.js. I don't know why you suppose editing the mediawiki source code would be easier. This is much
easier.
You do have to figure out how to do it, but this is really a trival
kind
of
programming.
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Ekompute .info <
ekompute@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi, thank you for your answer. I can't find any redlinks in the
two
files. > Would there be a simpler method by going to the Mediawiki source
files
and > edit it directly by putting [[Wikipedia:<redlink>]] to it? If it
could
be > done in one file, it would be easier for me, because I am not
good
at
> programming. > > PM Poon > > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Brian <Brian.Mingus@colorado.edu
wrote: > > > Using css and javascript in MediaWiki:Common.css and MediaWiki:Common.js. > > Find all the red links, prefix their href attribute to
Wikipedia.
> > > > On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Ekompute .info <
ekompute@gmail.com
> wrote: > > > > > Hi, I am writing an encyclopedia fork. Since I am doing it
alone,
I
> have > > a > > > lot of redlinks. I would like to redirect all these red links
to
> > Wikipedia, > > > while maintaining its color as still red. How should I go
about
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