[Mediawiki-l] Sidebar Customization

Fri Apr 8 09:02:29 UTC 2011

How do you make those menu's in the sidebar collapsable? Looks very neat.

At 01:56 AM 4/8/2011, you wrote:
>On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 1:13 AM, Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 12:19 AM, John Durant <johndur at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Does anyone know of a technique or extension that would allow me to
> >> customize the Sidebar? Following the example shown on
> >> Manual:Interface/Sidebar does not return the results shown.
> >>
> >> The manual page further states:
> >>
> >> " The link target can be the name of an interface message (page in the
> >> MediaWiki namespace) or wiki page, or an external link. In 
> either case, the
> >> link can be internal, interwiki, or external. In some cases (such as links
> >> with the "&" character), an interface message is necessary. The 
> link target
> >> cannot be made dependent on the interface language set in the 
> preferences."
> >>
> >> After trying every permutation of link and link text the Sidebar does not
> >> perform as stated. What am I missing here?
> >>
> >> Further down the page examples using Javascript and PHP. Are these my only
> >> recourse?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> John
> >>
> >
> > An example might be helpful,
> > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Sidebar&action=edit
> >
> > The centered language links are accomplished by this MediaWiki:Common.css:
> >
> > #p-Google_translations.portlet li,
> > #p-Google_translations.portal li {
> >
> >   text-align: center;
> > }
> > #panel div#p-Google_translations div.body,
> > #mw-panel div#p-Google_translations div.body {
> >   margin-left: 0px;
> > }
> >
> >       --Fred
> >
>
>Forwarded conversation
>Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Sidebar Customization
>------------------------
>----------
>From: *John Durant* <johndur at comcast.net>
>Date: Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 6:11 PM
>To: Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com>
>
>Thanks for pointing me to your site Fred. This looks very much like what I
>am trying to do. Other than the code in Mediawiki:Common.js, is there
>anything else I would need for a working prototype on my site?
>
>Regards,
>
>John
>
>----------
>From: *Frederick Grose* <fgrose at gmail.com>
>Date: Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 7:59 PM
>To: John Durant <johndur at comcast.net>
>
>
>You can check the Special:Version page of a MediaWiki site,
>http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Special:Version
>to see what software is running.
>
>In our case, we are just using the Vector skin with UsabilityInitiative
>extension in MediaWiki 1.16.0
>
>The MediaWiki:Sidebar content,
>http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/MediaWiki:Sidebar
>and  MediaWiki:Common.css (the sections I extracted below),
>http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/MediaWiki:Common.css
>and the Google Translate and other external or internal links are the only
>customizations to our sidebar.
>
>Best wishes,
>        --Fred
>----------
>From: *John Durant* <johndur at comcast.net>
>Date: Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 11:00 PM
>To: Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com>
>
>As suggested, went through the various components. It appears to be working,
>more tests in the morning.
>
>  Will keep you posted.
>
>  Thanks,
>
>----------
>From: *John Durant* <johndur at comcast.net>
>Date: Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 8:55 PM
>To: Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com>
>
>
>Compared Special:Version pages, removed other extensions that could possibly
>conflict, verified Vector, checked Mediawiki:Sidebar and still no
>collapsing.  Looking at the code with Firebug, the functions all load and
>run. Any ideas?
>
>Thanks,
>
>----------
>From: *Frederick Grose* <fgrose at gmail.com>
>Date: Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 9:21 PM
>To: John Durant <johndur at comcast.net>
>
>
>Oh sorry, I forgot about the collapsing feature.
>
>You may need also some MediaWiki:Common.js,
>http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/MediaWiki:Common.js
>or, its good to take from the source,
>http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.js
>
>But I'm not certain at the moment.
>
>I would feel better if this discussion were on-list, so others could
>contribute and benefit.
>
>Any objections to forward all back to the original thread?
>
>          --Fred
>
>----------
>From: *John Durant* <johndur at comcast.net>
>Date: Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 8:23 AM
>To: Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com>
>
>No, please do.
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