As an add-on note to DanTMan's email I think that MediaWiki:Monaco-sidebar should ignore lines without a "|" unless it opens a submenu.
-Timothy On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 7:51 PM, DanTMan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikia-l mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikia-l mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikia-l mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikia-l mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikia-l mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l > > _______________________________________________ Wikia-l mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l
