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The contents of the navigation bar can be edited using the <tt>'''[[MediaWiki:Sidebar]]'''</tt> message page. To access this page, enter the title as shown into the "search" box and click ''Go'' or | The contents of the navigation bar can be edited using the <tt>'''[[MediaWiki:Sidebar]]'''</tt> message page. To access this page, enter the title as shown into the "search" box and click ''Go'' or | ||
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The third element references [[MediaWiki:Forums-url]], which will contain the full external URL for the "forums", while using a plain label. Item four demonstrates direct linking to an external source. | The third element references [[MediaWiki:Forums-url]], which will contain the full external URL for the "forums", while using a plain label. Item four demonstrates direct linking to an external source. | ||
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[[Category: Mediawiki]] | [[Category: Mediawiki]] | ||
Latest revision as of 11:59, 15 November 2016
Contents
The contents of the navigation bar can be edited using the MediaWiki:Sidebar message page. To access this page, enter the title as shown into the "search" box and click Go or
- Click on Special pages in the toolbox menu.
- Click on All pages.
- Change the drop-down menu to "MediaWiki."
- Type Sidebar and click Go.
- Click on Sidebar.
- Click the Edit tab.
The format of this message is as follows:
* navigation ** mainpage|mainpage ** Special:Recentchanges|Recent changes ** recentchanges-url|recentchanges ** http://www.mediawiki.org|MediaWiki home
This snippet demonstrates the various formats available for use.
Subheadings
The navigation bar can be split into sections, each with a heading of its own. The heading for each section is taken from the first-level list element (in the example above, "navigation", for instance).
If this text corresponds to the name of a system message, i.e. a page with that title exists in the MediaWiki namespace, then the text of the message is used as a label, otherwise the title is used as-is.
Links
The second-level list elements each correspond to a link on the navigation bar, where the format is:
** target|caption
As above, if element text corresponds to the name of a message, then the text of the message is used instead. In the example above, MediaWiki:Mainpage contains the name of the main page, e.g. Main Page, and so both the target and caption are expanded to that text. However, MediaWiki:Recent changes does not exist, so in the case of the example, the label text for the second item is used as-is. This has the disadvantage that the preference setting of the interface language does not work for such a label.
The third element references MediaWiki:Forums-url, which will contain the full external URL for the "forums", while using a plain label. Item four demonstrates direct linking to an external source.
See Navigation Help for a more detailed help.
