rgcjonas wrote:
I admit i have never tried it before. Now i did and it doesn't work for me.
according to https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21278 and after reading through the source code i thought the syntax should be something like this.
{{** [http://mydomain.com/gallery/ Photo gallery]}}
But it didn't work out. It simply didn't show up. It would be very nice if Platonides could give us an example.
Anyway i think the fact that the sidebar doesn't take care of $wgExternalLinkTarget is worth a bug report. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29533
If you add inside MediaWiki:Sidebar * {{ MyBlock }}
Then you can add at MediaWiki:MyBlock a sidebar section using full wikitext.
NB: You need 1.17 or higher for the {{ }} syntax to work.