Why don't you guys just make MediaWiki:Sidebar just be (interpreted as)
a standard wikitext file. OK, call it MediaWiki:SidebarII or
MediaWiki:Snidebar etc., which if exists will be used instead of
MediaWiki:Sidebar.
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Why on earth would we call it the snidebar?
-Chad
On Aug 28, 2011 9:45 PM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote:
Why don't you guys just make MediaWiki:Sidebar just be (interpreted as)
a standard wikitext file. OK, call it MediaWiki:SidebarII or
MediaWiki:Snidebar etc., which if exists will be used
C == Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com writes:
C Why on earth would we call it the snidebar?
OK, spudbar.
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- Horrible syntax becomes even more horrid
- i18n nearly goes out the window
- Accesskeys go out the window
- External links don't work the same in the sidebar as they do in WikiText
- Sidebar markup differs between skins... because rightfully that's the
skin's decision to make on how it's laid
2011/8/20 Ashar Voultoiz hashar+...@free.fr
The sidebar code is a hack and it is far from being user friendly. User
currently has to edit:
- [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]]
- a message for link
- a message for link name
Afaik that's not true. Those 3 steps are only needed if you need
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]
On 11-08-23 02:40 PM, Platonides wrote:
Daniel Friesen wrote:
The current implementation of MediaWiki:Sidebar supports a completely
undocumented * {{msg}} syntax.
My fault.
This feature didn't exist in 1.16, was
On 20/08/11 01:50, Daniel Friesen wrote:
The current implementation of MediaWiki:Sidebar supports a completely
undocumented * {{msg}} syntax.
snip
Are there any objections to it being removed?
The sidebar code is a hack and it is far from being user friendly. User
currently has to edit:
-
On 11-08-20 02:58 AM, Ashar Voultoiz wrote:
On 20/08/11 01:50, Daniel Friesen wrote:
The current implementation of MediaWiki:Sidebar supports a completely
undocumented * {{msg}} syntax.
snip
Are there any objections to it being removed?
The sidebar code is a hack and it is far from being
The current implementation of MediaWiki:Sidebar supports a completely
undocumented * {{msg}} syntax.
It works along the lines of:
* header
** {{msgname}}
And ends up with a 'header' section with the parsed contents of
MediaWiki:Msgname outputted into it.
This feature didn't exist in 1.16, was
