On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 20:42:26 +0100, Paul van der Vlis paul@vandervlis.nl wrote:
Hello!
I want to to change the links in "navigation" and "toolbox" and I would like to remove the tab "discussion".
Many of the links in the "navigation" sidebar are configurable; I'm not sure the "toolbox" ones are, since they are more deeply tied to features of the software.
In 1.3.x, there are interface messages which determine the different navigation links - e.g. editing the page [[MediaWiki:Currentevents]] will change the label which normally (in English, that is) says "Current events"; editting [[MediaWiki:Currentevents-url]] will then set its destination. Similar messages exist for the other links - take a look at [[Special:Allmessages]] for help finding them. Setting a message to a singly hyphen ('-') should remove that link from the sidebar altogether.
In 1.4.x, I believe an even more flexible system was introduced, where the whole navigation box is defined by an array called $wgNavigationLinks in LocalSettings.php (as usual, copy from includes/DefaultSettings.php as necessary). So you can define your own [[MediaWiki:Foo]]/[[MediaWiki:Foo-url]] pairings, or remove some messages completely, or whatever.
As I say, the "toolbox" will require deeper hacking; and as for removing discussion pages, I seem to remember NSK reporting limited success in doing this completely - although just removing the link on each page in whichever skin[s] your site offers would go most of the way, I guess.