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/wiki plus 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
doing
it?
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