Gary is not the only one who has used this mechanism in the wiki. I used it extensively on the Download pages, for example. But there is no reason why we cannot have absolute paths that work in the new reorganization of the wiki.
-walter On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:44 PM, David Farning <dfarn...@sugarlabs.org> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Gary C Martin <g...@garycmartin.com> wrote: >> On 15 Mar 2009, at 22:01, Eben Eliason wrote: >> >>> Sure, but in this instance we're talking about anchor links which are >>> meant to jump to specific sections of the GettingInvolved page on the >>> wiki. These should definitely be fixed, and really needn't be >>> absolute since they're just named anchors of the current page. >> >> Quick notes on why there are absolute links here :-) >> >> Wiki's are really, really, bad at doing the more useful UI navigation >> things with images. The wiki specifically wants, and goes out of it's >> way, to make all images to go to their copyright/upload pages. If you >> want to make useful navigation images, well, you're kind'a just >> screwed to be honest (and I wasted the best part of a day looking). >> There are some template tricks, some css hacks (both of which require >> absolute addressing of image and link, yuch); a cleaner trick for if >> you have the image map wiki extension (we don't have that), and some >> tentative suggestions in the mediawiki docs that a future version >> (mediawiki 1.14) has a better solution for making navigation images. > > Sorry, I should have followed up on this. > > Gary had to use a class="plainlinks" hack to get the images to work > correctly. This was not something the mediawiki developers though we > should be doing:) > > david > >> Regards, >> --Gary >> >>> - Eben >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Sean DALY <sdaly...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Ivan has been helping us integrate the navigation between the static >>>> intro and the wiki, as the media launch begins tomorrow morning and >>>> it >>>> is vital first-time visitors can find their way out of the wiki. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:55 PM, Eben Eliason <eben.elia...@gmail.com >>>> > wrote: >>>>> They're not working for me either. The links need to be updated to >>>>> point to the wiki subdomain, eg. >>>>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/GettingInvolved#Translator; >>>>> right now they just point to sugarlabs.org (Not sure why the links >>>>> need to be absolute anyway...) >>>>> >>>>> - Eben >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Simon Schampijer <si...@schampijer.de >>>>> > wrote: >>>>>> Gary C Martin wrote: >>>>>>> Just a quick heads up, I'm afraid don't have time to look at this >>>>>>> right now. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The icon links on: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/GettingInvolved >>>>>>> >>>>>>> ... all seem broken, clicking on an icon does not take you to the >>>>>>> anchor. It was working fine, not sure when it broke. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The wiki did get some work done on it today, so not sure if it's >>>>>>> related to that recent change, or just broken by subsequent wiki >>>>>>> edits. FWIW, the image links were created with a fairly hairy >>>>>>> template >>>>>>> trick, but that was about cleanest possible solution given the >>>>>>> version >>>>>>> of media wiki and plug-ins we had back then. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Regards, >>>>>>> --Gary >>>>>> >>>>>> It works for me here. Hmmm. >>>>>> >>>>>> Regards, >>>>>> Simon >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >>>>>> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org >>>>>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >>>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >>>>> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org >>>>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >>>>> >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >>> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org >>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep