Debi wrote:
I'm new to the list and new to the concept of the
wiki. I've been
learning as I go and have to admit that most of this stuff is way over
my head at the moment!
Anyway, this is the request of my team for our new wikipedia:
Just a quick note: "Wikipedia" is actually a trademark of the Wikimedia
Foundation, so it's best not
to get into the habit of referring to something as "a Wikipedia" if it isn't
part of
wikipedia.org.
The generic term is simply "a wiki" or "a WikiWiki".
We noticed that the
Wikipedia.com site had something
called a
#siteNotice in their MediaWiki:Monobook.css, but I have no idea where
this #siteNotice lives and whether or not links can be engrained in them.
My guess would be that that was the formatting for [[MediaWiki:fromwikipedia]] - but
I've just
noticed that that message doesn't appear *at all* under monobook - anyone have any
idea why not?
Just an oversight?
We have a special "categories" menu we'd
like to add to every page and
have it have links to the actual Catetory:xxx pages to enhance navigation.
We'd like to keep this list of categories
up-to-date easily. Right now,
we have Template:Showcategories, but that has to be put into each article.
Were you thinking of just a list of inline links (and not have many categories) or an
actual
drop-down menu (which would be better for a large list of categories)? The former you
might be able
to do with strange bits of JavaScript and CSS (although I dread to think how) or by
modifying the
monobook skin itself (and, of course, any other skin you let your users select once they
log in).
For the latter (and indeed the former, if you don't have any PHP wizards amongst you
but want an
auto-updating list) I guess you'll have to lodge a Feature Request at the
software's Sourceforge
Tracker (
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=411195&group_id=34373&func=br…)
and hope someone
feels like coding it for you.
I'm afraid I'm not very familiar with the skinning and CSS and stuff, so can't
be more helpful than
that. Perhaps someone else can shed a bit more light on your options.
--
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]