How about a fallback.
[[MediaWiki:Sidebar]] and [[MediaWiki:Quartz sidebar]]. If 
[[MediaWiki:Quartz sidebar]] is empty, then fallback to 
[[MediaWiki:Sidebar]]. Or [[MediaWiki:Quartz sidebar]] could use a wfMes 
to use the contents of [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]] as the default for itself.

~Daniel Friesen(Dantman) of The Gaiapedia, Wikia Graphical Entertainment 
Project, and Wiki-Tools.com

John Q wrote:
> Yes, that's the general plan. :)  But it brings up a question that we 
> decided to wait before implementing so we could ask everyone...
>
> Currently, we have the MediaWiki:NavLinks article which populates 4 
> links into the header area. We're also taking monobook's sidebar and 
> populating the contents of that into the right nav area. My guess would 
> be that the 4 links you'd want in the header are already in the monobook 
> sidebar and the result would be 4 duplicate links. One solution to this 
> is to create another MediaWiki article that would be the equivalent of 
> monobook sidebar but only for the v2 skin... then you could avoid 
> duplicate links. Downside is two lists to maintain.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
> John Q.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Uber Halogen wrote:
>   
>> On 05/08/2007, Jamie Hari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:    
>>     
>> Since the code already exists in the monobook skin it would be easy to
>> replicate. Please may I also direct the development team at an idea to
>> create a function which does what the sidebar in monobook currently
>> does. It could be put in Skin.php - there are many uses for it and
>> currently I am aware of several things that would be benefit from such
>> a function. The main advantage would be that it can more easily be
>> fixed if flaws are found and it would save disk space in the long run.
>> Thanks,
>> MinuteElectron.
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