The sidebar has always been in a format:
* text
** link|text
Even in the default sidebars you see:
* navigation
** mainpage|mainpage
Signifying that you always use the | format for links, and without it
the item is meant to be text.
In fact, last time I checked the code, if you don't specify a | for the
MonoBook sidebar on the second level, it won't even display.
Perhaps, instead of a ugly workaround we should go with the expected
standard. Anything with a | should be a link, and anything without one
should just be text.
~Daniel Friesen(Dantman) of:
-The Gaiapedia (http://gaia.wikia.com)
-Wikia ACG on Wikia.com (http://wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_ACG)
-and Wiki-Tools.com (http://wiki-tools.com)
JohnQ wrote:
I think we can solve this technically with something like what Timothy
has below. We'd have to differentiate links from non-links on the top
level nav and that might make it look a bit weird. Let me poke at this a
bit to see if there's a good middle ground.
Thanks,
John Q.
Timothy J. Crowell wrote:
*|{{FULLPAGENAME}}|A
**a1|a1text
**a2|a2text
*{{FULLPAGENAME}}|B
**b1|b1text
**b2|b2text
That is what I use as a workaround, something like:
#nolinksubmenu#|A
...would be nice.
-Timothy
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Jamie Hari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello all,
Let me be the first to say a big thank you for all Wikia's hard work on this
new skin! Looks amazing so far. I can't wait to hear from my community about
it...
With that said, I have found one 'bug' with Monaco. ('bug' or 'design
preference', what have you...)
In the monaco-sidebar, when defining a top-level header, it automatically
links to the page of the same name.
For instance:
*A
**a1|a1text
**a2|a2text
*B|Btext
**b1|b1text
**b2|b2text
A and B are automatically links to [[A]] and [[B]], which may not be
desirable in all cases.
On the Marvel Database, 'Top Content' is a top-level link, but we have no
page called 'Top Content'.
http://en.marveldatabase.com/Top_Content
The easy fix is a redirect, but on those wikis who don't create the
redirects, this could be confusing for fast-fingered new visitors...
In this break-out menuing style, shouldn't we be able to define if each is
a link or not?
Thoughts?
--
Jamie Hari
Editor-in-Chief
Marvel & DC Database Projects
On 2/25/08, JohnQ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi everyone,
Last Friday we made Monaco the default on 1500 of the smallest wikis so
that we could test it out in a variety of environments. We found a few
issues that we've been working to fix before making it more generally
available. I'm happy to announce that Monaco is now available in your
skin preferences so that you can check out your wiki in this new skin.
We consider this much more a successor to monobook and hope you like it.
In the next few days, unless we find any blocking issues, all wikis that
currently have a Quartz default will be changed to a Monaco default. If
you want to switch it back, you can via the skin chooser. For the wikis
with fairly heavy customization (ffxi, marveldatabase, dcdatabase,
wookieepedia, etc.), there should already be a custom version of Monaco.
To check it out in advance just select "Monaco - custom" for your
personal skin preference (you may need to un-check "see custom" so that
the overall wiki setting isn't overriding your personal choice).
Some wikis have already set Monaco as the default skin by themselves:
http://muppet.wikia.com (admins, just go to skin preferences, scroll to
the bottom to "Admin options" and you can set it there, too).
There is a page here:
http://inside.wikia.com/wiki/Monaco_Skin_Customization that talks in
more depth about how to customize Monaco.
There is a page here: http://inside.wikia.com/wiki/New_Skin_Chooser
that talks about the skin chooser in more depth if you have questions
about that.
One nice thing about Monaco is that you can create your own personal
sidebar and toolbox links (see the customization page for how to do that).
Please take a look at your wiki with Monaco and let us know if you find
any issues.
Thanks
John Q.
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