Hi, I am having difficulty adding tooltips to the menu items in the sidebar. I have previously been redirected to Special:AllMessages, which works great for changing the tooltips already present. However, it appears that for some items the tootltips are "switched off", meaning that the values shown in Special:AllMessages have no effect (for instance, "Main Page" has no tooltip, while "Help" does). Hence, changing them changes nothing on the wiki. Furthermore, there are several menu items in the sidebar not represented in Special:AllMessages, so I would need a way to either add new messages to be edited in Special:AllMessages, or some other way to add tooltips to sidebar menu items.
In short: how do I turn on and edit tooltips for all sidebar menu items?
The version-info for the wiki is
MediaWiki 1.17.0 PHP 5.2.17 (cgi) MySQL 5.1.56-community-log
and the url of the wiki is www.phaust.dk/wiki
I hope all is clear.
Thank you in advance Kaare Mikkelsen
On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:29:58 -0800, kaare mikkelsen mikkelsen.kaare@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, I am having difficulty adding tooltips to the menu items in the sidebar. I have previously been redirected to Special:AllMessages, which works great for changing the tooltips already present. However, it appears that for some items the tootltips are "switched off", meaning that the values shown in Special:AllMessages have no effect (for instance, "Main Page" has no tooltip, while "Help" does). Hence, changing them changes nothing on the wiki. Furthermore, there are several menu items in the sidebar not represented in Special:AllMessages, so I would need a way to either add new messages to be edited in Special:AllMessages, or some other way to add tooltips to sidebar menu items.
In short: how do I turn on and edit tooltips for all sidebar menu items?
The version-info for the wiki is
MediaWiki 1.17.0 PHP 5.2.17 (cgi) MySQL 5.1.56-community-log
and the url of the wiki is www.phaust.dk/wiki
I hope all is clear.
Thank you in advance Kaare Mikkelsen
You should be able to use tooltip-n-* messages.
ie: MediaWiki:Sidebar has something like: ** mypage-url|mypage
And you have a page title in MediaWiki:Mypage-url and "My Page" in MediaWiki:Mypage You should then be able to create MediaWiki:Tooltip-n-mypage with the text of the tooltip.
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