Just noticed something while customising monaco somewhat...
<a accesskey="z" href="/wiki/Main_Page">Muppet Wiki</a>
That is in the HTML regardless of wiki you look at. Probably won't
make a big issue but .. should it be like that?
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Timothy J. Crowell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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.
>
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