Hi,

there was one last thing still missing in the new Template for 
openSUSE.org - the three column layout for the starting page.

After hours of digging into MediWiki's php files and searching on Google 
I hopefully managed to make it work:

http://en.test.opensuse.org/
http://de.test.opensuse.org/

I am not sure that it will work with every user configuration (initially 
I had problems when the user switched the language or wasn't logged 
in), so I would feel much better if you would test it.

I also would like to hear your feedback on mainting the new starting 
page - it has become more complicated:

- the Home Page is now made up from 2 separate documents:
  * Main Page (the content area)
    http://en.test.opensuse.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
  * MediaWiki:Mainpagerightcolumn (the right column)
    
http://en.test.opensuse.org/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Mainpagerightcolumn

- MediaWiki:Mainpagerightcolumn is included via Template with wfMsg() - 
  (I haven't found another way to do it - if there is a better 
   alternative, please let me know). 
  Unfortunately this means that no wiki markup can be used within this
  file - it has to be pure HTML. This is also true for Links, so
  [[Internal Link]], [http://server/ External Link] or interwiki 
  Links cannot be used. http://{{SERVERNAME}} has to be used for 
  internal links.

- MediaWiki:Mainpagerightcolumn has to be present on each wiki. If it
  is not, it will look as on
  http://fr.test.opensuse.org/

- messing up the HTML in MediaWiki:Mainpagerightcolumn (especially 
  forgetting to close <div>s) might break the complete page layout (on 
  the other hand this is true for every other page as well)

-- 
Regards
        Frank

Frank Sundermeyer, Technical Writer, Documentation
SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg
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