Skins Hacks

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Contents 1 Opening external links in a new window 1.1 Interwiki-Links 1.2 External http-links 2 Create adjustable menus 2.1 Skin MonoBook

Opening external links in a new window

Interwiki-Links

Every interwiki-link inside the "interwiki" table that is extended with the target attribute:

target="_blank"

will open up in a new window (tab).

Note, however, that this violates the W3C's Web Content Accessibility GuidelinesCheckpoint 10.1[1] and is often considered a Generally Bad Idea.[2][3][4]

External http-links

• Open the file /includes/Linker.php

• Search for the function

  function getExternalLinkAttributes( $link, $text, $class='' )

• Replace

  $r = ($class != '') ? " class='$class'" : " class='external'";

  for

  $r = ($class != '') ? " class='$class' target='_blank'" : " class='external' target='_blank'";

• It lacks a check to see if a http-link is actualy within the mediawiki-domain.

Create adjustable menus

Skin MonoBook

(Note: This hack has been made obsolete by version 1.5.X, just modify MediaWiki:Sidebar to do the same thing as below.)

This contribution is only compatible with the Skin MonoBook.

• Insert a new page in the Namespace MediaWiki; for example MediaWiki:NavigationMenu

• Insert content into this page, according to the Mediawiki content format; for example:

  * [[Main Page]]
  * [[Fundraising]]
  * [http://www.external_link.org external http-link]

• Open the file skins/MonoBook.php

• search for

  <h5><?php $this->msg('navigation') ?></h5>
    <div class="pBody">
      <ul>
        <?php foreach($this->data['navigation_urls'] as $navlink) { ?>
        <li id="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($navlink['id'])
        ?>"><a href="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($navlink['href']) ?>"><?php 
        echo htmlspecialchars($navlink['text']) ?></a></li><?php } ?>
      </ul>
    </div>

and replace

      <ul>
        <?php foreach($this->data['navigation_urls'] as $navlink) { ?>
        <li id="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($navlink['id'])
        ?>"><a href="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($navlink['href']) ?>"><?php 
        echo htmlspecialchars($navlink['text']) ?></a></li><?php } ?>
      </ul>

for:

      <?php $this->msgWiki( 'NavigationMenu' ) ?>

• The code should now look like this:

  <h5><?php $this->msg('navigation') ?></h5>
    <div class="pBody">
      <?php $this->msgWiki( 'NavigationMenu' ) ?>
    </div>