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

2011-06-29 Thread rgcjonas
> 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. ___ MediaWiki-l mailin

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

2011-06-28 Thread Platonides
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

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

2011-06-23 Thread 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 si

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

2011-06-23 Thread rgcjonas
> 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).

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

2011-06-22 Thread nakohdo
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

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

2011-06-22 Thread rgcjonas
> 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

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

2011-06-20 Thread Dan Siegal-Gaskins
> 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

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

2011-06-19 Thread rgcjonas
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

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

2011-06-18 Thread Dan Siegal-Gaskins
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! ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://