[Mediawiki-l] RE: collection of dumb questions [external links in new browser w indow]

[JT.Thomas at VerizonWireless.com]

We did the following in our 1.2.6 installation (Skin.php):
 
function getExternalLinkAttributes( $link, $text )
    {
        global $wgUser, $wgOut, $wgLang;

        $link = urldecode( $link );
        $link = $wgLang->checkTitleEncoding( $link );
        $link = str_replace( "_", " ", $link );
        $link = wfEscapeHTML( $link );

        if ( $wgOut->isPrintable() ) { $r = " class='printable'"; }
        else { $r = " class='external'"; }

        if ( 1 == $wgUser->getOption( "hover" ) ) {
#           $r .= " title=\"{$link}\"";
            $r .= " target=\"_new\" title=\"{$link}\"";
        }
        return $r;
    }

Please note that this approach allows the user to override the behavior by
disabling 'Show hoverbox over wiki links' in the user preferences.

Not a perfect hack perhaps, but it suits us fine.

Best Regards,

JT

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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 15:00:51 -0400
From: "Jon Kenoyer" <jonk at op2s.com>
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] collection of dumb questions
To: mediawiki-l at wikimedia.org
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Hi I am very happy with mediawiki so far. I got it up and running pretty  
easy but now have two questions that I can't find answers for in the  
documentation or mailing list.

Question 1: I would like the have the same skin as the mediawiki and  
encyclopedia site. Especially with the tabs across the top. However in  
LocalSettings.php only cologneblue works for $wgDefaultSkin =  
'cologneblue'; If I set it to something else the default skin appears. Is  
monobook the skin that mediawiki uses?

Question 2: Is there anyway to reference the contents of another page to  
be included inline in the current page? I have a collection of pages that  
I would like to have a link with the option to view all the pages compiled  
into one page.

Question 3: How do I make an external link open in a separate window  
instead of the current wiki window?