Thanks for those suggestions, Chris. I'm drilling down through them, one by one.
A further question - has anyone modified existing skins using child themes? Is this a practical approach with the MediaWiki skins? -- Shirley Hicks On May 10, 2014, at 12:49 PM, Chris Tharp <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Shirley > > My recommendations are: > > 1.Re-skin using the Foreground skin. The Foreground skin is based on the > Foundation Framework, which is basically a whole set of pre-packaged css to > make page design faster and more responsive. It makes it very, very easy to > add columns per page and have those columns display differently based on the > device seeing them. > > 2. Standard way to display PDFs inline would be the PDFHander. Another way > would be to use the GoogleViewer widget from either the Widgets or > Widgetframework extensions and in the template use the {{filepath: }} > function. Example from the Widgetframework extension: > > Template: > > {{GoogleViewer:url={{filepath:{{{PDF NAME}}} }} }} > > Template used: > > {{Name of Template > |PDF NAME= > }} > > If you're using Semantic Mediawiki and edit via Semantic Forms you can add > the PDF right in the page and the user sees none of this. This method also > works to show Microsoft Word Docs, which is why I went with this method. > > 3.Mediawiki is very hard to limit access, but try extension: Lockdown. I > combined it with SemanticACL, which is mostly likely the least known > extension for write and visibility access control, but I find it to be highly > effective. > > Or if you just need to hide certain categories just write __HIDDENCAT__ in > the category page and it won't show up in the list of categories on the page > being edited. > > 4.Admin Links, I think is the easiest extension for editing the side bar(or > the top bar if you're using the Foreground skin). > > 5. You can define your own Navigation Bar in the Mediawiki Common.css, but > that's a pain. For HeaderTabs you can try extension:HeaderTabs. But the build > in HeaderTabs in the Foreground are the best HeaderTabs I've seen in the > Mediawiki Universe. > > Additionally in the Foreground Skin you can create Tabs like a Navigation > Bar. > > Anyways those are my quick suggestions. > > Chris Tharp > > > > Sent from my iPad > > On May 10, 2014, at 5:19 AM, Shirley Hicks <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Good morning everyone, >> >> Am updating a makerspace mediawiki installation. >> Our ISP offers support up to version 1.19.11 (which is what I've updated to. >> I'm waiting for an answer regarding supporting more recent versions) >> >> I would like to add functions in the following areas: >> >> Context senstive sidebar menus (such as seen on the FreesideAtlanta wiki >> (https://wiki.freesideatlanta.org/fs/Classes) >> PDF display in-line on the wiki page >> Mobile-friendly display (responsive) >> Logged-in-editor-only viewing of some page categories. >> Consistent page footers and headers. >> Some additonal tabs across the top of the page, with specific page >> categories. >> >> Any recommendations? Am still working my way through the (many) Extensions, >> but thought that asking >> the list for their collected wisdom could shorten the process. >> >> In addition, what is the current status on blocking email bots on wiki pages? >> Is that blocked within the installation, or should users munge their email >> addresses? >> >> Also, does anyone have recommendations for page specific encryption? We have >> some >> sensitive information that it would be useful to have available via the >> wiki, but we >> are not currently using https for a secure link. Just starting to explore >> our options >> in this area. (group server at the makerspace is going live shortly; we _can_ >> deploy our own web server, but quite frankly, our ISP has faster service) >> >> Thanks in advance for any advice offered. Have been subscribed to the list >> for over a year, although I've spent most of the time lurking. >> >> Shirley Hicks >> Board member-at-large >> Red Mountain Makers >> Birmingham, AL >> >> Email: [email protected] >> www.redmountainmakers.org >> ----------------------------------------------------------- >> Home email: [email protected] >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
