MediaWiki talk:Sidebar

Different links
I'd like to see a link to "Help" added to the sidebar. Maybe to replace the link to the Ikariam site (which has plenty of links from elsewhere on our site for anyone really wanting to go there, and which is only one of a dozen URLs that could take the same description).

How about deleting the game site link, moving "Start Guide" up to fill that second slot, and adding "General help" - a link to Help:Contents - in third place?

Robin Patterson 06:27, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

We could also use a link to the site's forums, because they are getting discovered by a few people but are not easy for others to check on. Robin Patterson 05:41, 7 May 2008 (UTC)


 * I see no problems and will agree / support you in getting the changes you mentioned - I have no idea on how to do those changes to the sidebar if you are asking me to do them though - I think only Jammmie999 can do it since he is the Bureaucrat.


 * Correction I think I did it - much easier than I thought it was -- ( Morph on http://Ikariam.com | Contribs | Talk ) -- 06:57, 7 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Ok kewl - we can add menu's to the bar as well example  Point at the "General Help" and it then shows  Editing     Missing Information   Choice 3      Choice 4  etc
 * P.S. I moved Forums out of the Community choice and made it 4th from top of menu under General Help -- ( Morph on http://Ikariam.com | Contribs | Talk ) -- 07:06, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Thank you, Morph/James, for working on it. Your progress notes, on my talk page, would be of general interest, so I have copied them here. Robin Patterson 09:44, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Different skins
Now the bad news - well, sad anyway. While pleased that James saw some enhancements from what he did, I feel bound to note that the view on the Cologne Blue skin (which I chose about 4 years ago and use consistently on all MedisWiki sites wherever possible) has not changed. On this editing page or on ordinary display pages, my left-hand sidebar menu starts like this:


 * Browse
 * Main Page
 * Ikariam Home Page
 * Start Guide
 * Buildings
 * Random page
 * Edit
 * Edit this page
 * Editing help
 * Move this page
 * This page

I guess I will have to dig in my archives to see which files I have to fiddle with so as to make my skin display that part of the MediaWiki the way it should.

But the same problem may affect anyone else who chooses Cologne Blue or any other skin except the default.

Robin Patterson 09:57, 7 May 2008 (UTC)


 * I changed my skin to CologneBlue and then went and made MediaWiki:CologneBlue-sidebar page and coppied the settings from the MediaWiki:Monaco-sidebar  but it did not change anything for this skin --  I think you have to have the Monaco skin for the sidebar to work -- ( Morph on http://Ikariam.com | Contribs | Talk ) -- 03:06, 8 May 2008 (UTC)