[Mediawiki-l] del.icio.us and mediawiki

[Raj Shekhar]

I did not see this tip on the Mediawiki FAQ or the help page, but I 
think this might prove helpful to some.

If you see most of the blogs, they have a bar at the bottom of each post 
which allows readers to bookmark it to del.icio.us, digg and other 
sites.  This thing can be done in Mediawiki too (have a look at 
http://dtil.info/index.php/Main_Page to see how the final page looks)

First, create a template by going to 
http://example.info/index.php/Template:Dtil and clicking on "edit" .  In 
this case Dtil is the name of the template, you can call it anything you 
want.  Most likely, you will need sysop powers to edit the template 
page.  Add the following lines to this template

<p style="border: 1px solid rgb(159, 165, 234); margin: 0px; padding: 
5px 15px; color: rgb(103, 109, 184); text-align: center;">
[http://del.icio.us/post?url={{SERVER}}/index.php/{{PAGENAMEE}}&title={{PAGENAMEE}} 
Del.icio.us this!] | 
[http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url={{SERVER}}/index.php/{{PAGENAMEE}} 
Digg this!]
</p>

The <p style="border: 1px solid rgb(159, 165, 234); margin: 0px; 
padding: 5px 15px; color: rgb(103, 109, 184); text-align: center;"> part 
gives a nice border to the whole template.  You can fiddle with the 
colors to make it suit your own theme or completely remove it if you do 
not want html in your wiki markup

Save the template.

Go to any of your pages and edit it. In the end of the edit, add the line
{{Dtil}} (or whatever you have named your template) and save it. 
Hopefully, you will have a footer in your page with links which will 
allow your readers to bookmark your pages on digg or del.icio.us

Hope you find this useful.


Should I add this to the Mediawiki FAQ or Mediawiki hacks page or is 
there something like this already there on it ?

Cheers
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