[Mediawiki-l] 1.5rc3: navigation box

Rowan Collins rowan.collins at gmail.com
Sat Aug 27 15:25:10 UTC 2005


On 27/08/05, Con Rodi <conrodi at vt.edu> wrote:
> I see this issue the same as Sy.  The example site (http://
> contextgarden.net/Main_Page) is a hacked sidebar in a version 1.3.11
> site.  

Ah! Now you're making sense; it was never clear to me what the
relationship between the "example" and the actual desired page was.
Thanks for clearing that up.

> Now we are trying to set up this same sort of indented
> structure using the MediaWiki:Sidebar page.  All is well except there
> is apparently no ability to indent the list of sidebar items.  If you
> try they just flush left.  Not sure if this is a bug or an attempt to
> stretch a new capability beyond it's limits.  Probably the latter.

Yes, it's the latter - the MediaWiki:sidebar code interprets the
bulletting markup specially, so that you can create separate headings
with their own box of links, so it's not surprising that it doesn't
also work for "normal" indentation.
 
> BTW, is there a page somewhere that explains how this (and other new
> stuff in 1.5) is SUPPOSED to work?

There *should* be documentation somewhere on meta, but... well, there
may not be... cf http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/1 ;)

-- 
Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]



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