[Mediawiki-l] direct linking in sidebar mw1.5

[Mike Valstar]

if i understand what your trying to do... you could follow this example 
of what i did to add a sidebar and link in whatever i felt like...

http://gentoo-wiki.com/Categories_navigation_bar

Mike Valstar

Andres Obrero wrote:

> i modified sucessfully the sidebar as described in FAQ, by modifing 
> Mediawiki:Sidebar.
> But for injecting some dynamic generated entries, it is a pain to code.
> The need to create/modify three entries in the db (one for the link 
> and one for caption
> and the last mod in Mediawiki:Sidebar).
> Is there a way to avoid the lookup in the db for some translations or 
> whatever.
> I mean some sort of adding
>
> * RenderThisTitleWithoutLookup
> ** http://myUrlDoNotLookup|onlyRenderThisCaptionDoNotLookup
>
> Just imagine that the other software (in my case gallery2) takes care 
> about language etc. for these entries
> I did it by modifying the template, but that is not a clean solution.
> I did it as extension,  a hack too.
> Maybe an oldfashioned include of the title=>"", "href"=>"" in 1.4 is 
> still possible, but i had no luck adding it in the LocalSettings.php.
> Any ideas?
>
> Regards
> Andres Obrero
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