I believe you can accomplish this without a knowledge of PHP or JavaScript either. But rather only by modifying your local settings copy and inserting a raw HTML string....
-----Original Message----- From: go moko <[email protected]> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <[email protected]> Sent: Sun, Dec 15, 2013 6:52 pm Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Add site-wide footer to all pages ----- Original Message ----- > From: Forest S <[email protected]> > To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list > <[email protected]> > Cc: > Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2013 10:39 PM > Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Add site-wide footer to all pages > > In a program as sophisticated as Mediawiki, it seems like there are two > ways to do something like this. One is elegant but requires a deep > knowledge of the APIs, etc. of Mediawiki and the other is more quick and > dirty. I am a huge fan of the quick and dirty way for people who are > confident in their technical skills but who don't have the time to learn > about the innards of Mediawiki. (Especially given the sparse documentation.) > > In this case, quick and dirty means editing the PHP file that runs the > Vector skin to insert raw HTML where you want it to go. You have to know > PHP to do this, but the footer area is clearly marked by HTML comments in > Vector. I'll be happy to provide more hints on how to do this if you are > interested (I can't hold you hand through everything, of course). You > shouldn't do it unless you are prepared to break some things and then fix > them again. > > In addition to other precautions, such as testing all edits on a separate > installation of your site, you may wish to clone the Vector skin so that > you have an untouched version of Vector that people can switch back to. See > the following thread in this mailing list for details: > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/mediawiki/414377 > I hope to revive the above thread by going ahead in the coming weeks after > I have a chance to install a PHP debugger and work on another couple > projects > > Forest > > > On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 10:00 PM, Dan Fisher <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I tried a footer extension to add a Wiki-editable footer on all pages of a >> site but it adds it before the categories. >> Does anyone know of an extension which adds a footer in the same area, as >> the Copyright/about stuff? >> _______________________________________________ >> MediaWiki-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >> > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > You can also do it with javascript, without modifying Vector skin and without deep knowledge of Mediawiki. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
