1.14 includes a new hook I introduced. You should be able to nicely
modify the sidebar to include whatever wikitext you want. And you can
also take advantage of a technique similar to how we have SEARCH,
TOOLBOX, and LANGUAGES.
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire)
~Profile/Portfolio:
I've long usod the patch for putting arbitrary
wikitext into the side bar, but but according to
the manual it won't work in the latest version of
mediawiki. I really don't like not to update, but
neither do I want to lose this possoibility. What
is there to do?
<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Interface/Sidebar#Allow_wiki_markup_.28PHP.29>
Allow wiki markup (PHP)
Many people on support desk have been asking
about how to put arbitrary wikitext into the
side bar. You can hack your skins/Monobook.php
file (if you're using monobook) and replace the
following section of code. (Note that this patch
doesn't work for the new MediaWiki 1.13.2)
/BP 8^)>