MediaWiki talk:Sidebar

Updated sidebar

What's really happen, Voidious? » Nat | Talk » 03:11, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

I wanted to at least add the "Random User page" link, maybe some other Random links (seemed like too much), and I removed some links that didn't seem as important. Any comments / suggestions? --Voidious 03:15, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

I really wish I could make "Random page" go to any namespace, but I haven't found a way yet. =( I don't like how "Random User page" made the sidebar wider... --Voidious 03:18, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

There is, http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgContentNamespaces. You need to set it to any namespaces you want, such as $wgContentNamespaces = array(NS_MAIN, NS_TALK, NS_USER, NS_USER_TALK, NS_HELP);

This is a bit out of topic, but you did set the rewrite to work with /wiki/Title, didn't you? You need to change $wgArticlePath = "/wiki/$1"; too in order to make the internal link change to new URL. And MediaWiki 1.15.1 is out, it is security fix so you should update. The revision of MediaWiki distribution doesn't need an update to database, just replace the file, that's all. » Nat | Talk » 03:35, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

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I don't know if this is better...

* navigation
** mainpage|mainpage
** recentchanges-url|recentchanges
** randompage-url|randompage
** Special:Allpages|All pages
** Special:Categories|All categories
* robocode
** Robocode|Robocode
** Category:Bots|Bots
** Category:Bot Authors|Bot Authors
** Category:Targeting|Targeting
** Category:Movement|Movement
** Robocode/FAQ|FAQ
** Help:Help|Help

» Nat | Talk » 03:44, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

I like the sections, I just think that would be kind of long. I kind of like to boil it down to the most important / most used links. --Voidious 03:59, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

If that one seems long, how about this?

* navigation
** mainpage|mainpage
** recentchanges-url|recentchanges
** randompage-url|randompage
** Special:Allpages|All pages
** Special:Categories|All categories
* robocode
** Robocode|Robocode
** Category:Bots|Bots
** Category:Bot Authors|Bot Authors
** Help:Help|Help

» Nat | Talk » 04:04, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

Twitter

Why Twitter update only show on some pages? » Nat | Talk » 03:48, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

Still tinkering. =) --Voidious 03:51, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

What do you guys think of the Twitter feed like that on the sidebar? It's kinda long, and I'm not sure how useful it is to anyone, but I wanted to give it a try, at least. Still feeling out if/how to make the Twitter feed useful. --Voidious 03:56, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

I think it should have a link like "Follow RoboWiki", and it would be good it it is placed under toolbox. And if you please turn on user css/js, each user can hide them if they want by insert "#twitter_div {display:none}" in their User/monobook.css file. » Nat | Talk » 04:01, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

What if we use Twitterfeed with the recent changes and the RoboWiki account? » Nat | Talk » 09:54, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

On my computer, the sidebar looks like this:

• Main page
• Community portal
• Current events
• Recent changes
• Random page
• Help

but it used to (and should to, according to the function of this page) look like this:

• Main Page
• Bots
• Bot Authors
• Recent changes
• Random page
• Random Talk page
• Random User page
• All pages
• All categories

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it seems that it's a problem with cache. Any page that's not visited by anyone before shows the correct link.

I see it with "Random Talk page" and "Random User page" visible.

Thanks, it seems that the cache refreshed.