[Mediawiki-l] opening sidebar links in a new window

[Dan Siegal-Gaskins]

Hi Everyone,

Thanks for the responses.  

Now there's still quite a bit that I think I'm missing here.  My confusion could be a simple matter of being a very new wiki user, and I thank you all for your patience.   

That being said, re: rgcjonas's comment:

> Anyway i think the fact that the sidebar doesn't take care of
> $wgExternalLinkTarget is worth a bug report.
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29533

I see the post on bugzilla, but to be honest I don't know what is meant by 'Patch for trunk'.   I see that there's a a bit of code that was added to SkinTemplate.php;  does this code fix the external link problem?  

and to nakohdo:

> See this thread: http://old.nabble.com/Sidebar-Customization-tt31321544.html
> You will need some JavaScript, though.

It looks to me like the nabble thread only discusses centering links and collapsable menus.  Is there a bit about external links opening in a new tab, and I'm just missing it?

Thanks again.  It's not so easy to parse content posted by experts.  :) 

dan