Language Bar Broken?

BrendaWang brenda_wang at openmoko.com
Wed Aug 6 06:22:28 CEST 2008


I had been try to put language bar on side bar. But it will let menu bar 
become very long. You need to scroll down for a while to find the 
language link you want.
So I give up .
Then try to find out other way .

I think this extension is useful.

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TreeAndMenu

But , I must make sure it can be work perfectly on wiki first , then I 
will enable this function.

Brenda

Joachim Steiger ??:
> Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote:
>   
>> Ferenc Veres escreveu:
>>     
>>> Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote:
>>>       
>>>> While it's possible to add links to the sidebar ([[MediaWiki:Sidebar]]), 
>>>> I do not think they can depend on the current page (i.e. on 
>>>>         
>>> Why? "I do not think" sounds like it could be possible, but you didn't 
>>> try yet. :-) So we still have some hope.
>>>       
>> Yes, I didn't try. But based on what I know of how MediaWiki's caching 
>> works, I wouldn't expect it to work (it caches parts of the page 
>> independently; in particular, the part with the content is cached 
>> separately, which you can see clearly in the "Saved in parser cache with 
>> key ..." comment on every page).
>>
>>     
>>> If that works, you can copy the whole
>>> http://wiki.openmoko.org/index.php?title=Template:Languages&action=edit 
>>> to a new bulleted list in the sidebar. (Unfortunately it will push 
>>> Search way too down, we will need the wiki admin to add ANOTHER sidebar 
>>> instead extending the current one? Is there a way to add a second 
>>> sidebar, below Search and Toolbox?)
>>>       
>> On 1.13 (OM uses 1.12 according to [[Special:Version]]) there is a way 
>> to set the placement of search and toolbox within the sidebar, but only 
>> on the standard sidebar coding (something seems to have been changed in 
>> the OM wiki to make it use the full wikitext coding, which probably 
>> disables that trick). See 
>> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Interface/Sidebar#Order_of_elements 
>> for how it's supposed to be done.
>>
>> If the skin was hacked to make it use the wikitext coding, I'd expect it 
>> would be easy to alter the hack to also read from another system message 
>> for another part of the sidebar.
>>
>>     
>
> just take a look:
>
> http://admin-trac.openmoko.org/trac/browser/trunk/wiki.openmoko.org/space_www_wiki_skins/OpenMoko.php#L168
> is the skin we use.
>
> http://admin-trac.openmoko.org/trac/changeset/235 was the change about
> the sidebar
>
> kind regards
>
>   





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