> If you add inside MediaWiki:Sidebar
> * {{ MyBlock }}
>
> Then you can add at MediaWiki:MyBlock a sidebar section using full wikitext.
>
> NB: You need 1.17 or higher for the {{ }} syntax to work.
Thank you. Now I understand.
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rgcjonas wrote:
> I admit i have never tried it before. Now i did and it doesn't work for me.
>
> according to https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21278 and
> after reading through the source code i thought the syntax should be
> something like this.
>
> {{** [http://mydomain.com/gallery
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 si
> 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?
Yes it does. I did it for the trunk version (development is done there).
Dan Siegal-Gaskins-3 wrote:
>
> hello everyone,
> i'm a new and slightly confused mediawiki user who'd like to put external
> links on my sidebar that open in new window. is this something that can
> be done?
>
See this thread: http://old.nabble.com/Sidebar-Customization-tt31321544.html
You
> I can tell you that I've put $wgExternalLinkTarget = '_blank' in my
> LocalSettings.php, and I've tried using the following on my MediaWiki:Sidebar
> page:
>
> ** http://mydomain.com/gallery/ | Photo gallery
>
> and
>
> ** [http://mydomain.com/gallery/ Photo gallery]
>
> In the first cas
> Using wiki markup should do the job. Look at this:
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21278
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Sidebar#Allow_wiki_markup_.28PHP.29
hmmm. I think I'm still too much of a wiki newbie to understand what this
'markup in the sidebar' means.
I c
Using wiki markup should do the job. Look at this:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21278
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Sidebar#Allow_wiki_markup_.28PHP.29
Am 19.06.2011 05:48, schrieb Dan Siegal-Gaskins:
>
> hello everyone,
> i'm a new and slightly confused mediawiki user
hello everyone,
i'm a new and slightly confused mediawiki user who'd like to put external links
on my sidebar that open in new window. is this something that can be done?
thanks!
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