[Mediawiki-l] Sidebar Customization

[John Durant]

Hi Fred, 



One more (I hope) question regarding your collapasable sidebar. Should this list be a table with a particular classs? 



Thanks, 

John 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frederick Grose" <fgrose at gmail.com> 
To: mediawiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org 
Sent: Thursday, April 7, 2011 9:56:38 AM 
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Sidebar Customization 

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 
> 

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Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Sidebar Customization 
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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 

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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 
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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, 

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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, 

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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 

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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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