COLLADA Public Wiki:Wiki customization project

Virtually everything about this wiki's interface can be customized, although only sysops or bureaucrats can make the changes.

List here things that you'd like to see addressed in the wiki interface:

• Add COLLADA logo.

Left navigation boxes

MediaWiki:Sidebar defines the layout of the left navigation bar. Admins can change the displayed text, change the links, or add or remove elements.

navigation box and public collada resources box

Defined in MediaWiki:Sidebar, with format similar to this:

<!--to find label that appears as a link in the left navbar, 
look at the content of the article named after the vertical bar-- 
e.g., MediaWiki:forum. To find the destination for for that label/link, 
look at the content of the article named before the vertical bar--
e.g. for forum-url, look at article MediaWiki:forum-url.  -->
* navigation
** mainpage|mainpage
** topcatg-url|topcatg
** portallist-url|portallist
** portal-url|portal
<!-- ** currentevents-url|currentevents -->
** recentchanges-url|recentchanges
** randompage-url|randompage
** helppage|help
** sitesupport-url|sitesupport
* resources
** forum-url|forum
** bugs-url|bugs
** hostsite-url|hostsite

Other labels/links

• (none currently identified)

Miscellaneous

Searching

• Can we set default search to include Help and COLLADA namespaces?
• There seems to be something odd about the default search and not sure whether it's configurable. For example, "accessor" finds entirely different articles than "accessors" and whereas I in fact expected "*accessor*" to do better, it didn't. Need to research this--this might be an indexing problem, as "accessor" finds many articles with that as a partial word but still not finding Using accessors article.
• Maybe we want to set search size to 3 chars instead of 4. Seems like there'll be a lot of TLAs that people might want to search for--"DOM", "XSI", and so on.

Other

• Define processes for adding, reviewing, approving(?) Portal:Tutorials. DONE 5/16ish by Elf
• Install MediaWiki parser functions so easier to do conditional templates. DONE 5/18 by Roger.
• Possibly install Extension prefix security to allow providers of plug-ins to edit info about their plug-ins but others to only read it.

External links

• MediaWiki FAQ
• Wikimedia user guide
• Configuration settings list
• Interface text list
• MediaWiki release mailing list