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Virtually everything about this wiki's interface can be customized, although only [[sysop]]s or [[bureaucrat]]s can make the changes.  
Virtually everything about this wiki's interface can be customized, although only [[sysop]]s or [[bureaucrat]]s can make the changes.  


List here things that you'd like to see addressed in the wiki interface:
==Interface text==
The text in all messages, sidebars, and so on, is customizable. To see a list of the variables that control it and their current values, select '''[http://collada.org/mediawiki/index.php/Special:Allmessages System messages]''' from '''Special pages'''.


*Add COLLADA logo.
===Left navigation boxes===
[[MediaWiki:Sidebar]] defines the layout of the upper left navigation box. Admins can change the displayed text, change the links, or add or remove elements or sections.


==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:
Defined in [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]], with format similar to this:


<pre><!--to find label that appears as a link in the left navbar,
<pre>
look at the content of the article named after the vertical bar--
* navigation  <!-- "navigation" section; title is in MediaWiki:navigation -->
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
** mainpage|mainpage
** topcatg-url|topcatg
** topcatg-url|topcatg
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** helppage|help
** helppage|help
** sitesupport-url|sitesupport
** sitesupport-url|sitesupport
* resources
* resources <!-- "public collada resources" section; title is in MediaWiki:resources -->
** forum-url|forum
** forum-url|forum
** bugs-url|bugs
** bugs-url|bugs
** hostsite-url|hostsite</pre>
** hostsite-url|hostsite</pre>


==Other labels/links==
To find the ''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 URL or link for for that label, look at the content of the article named ''before'' the vertical bar--e.g., for forum-url, look at article [[MediaWiki:forum-url]]. 
*(none currently identified)
 
===toolbox===
The toolbox text and links are defined in [[MediaWiki:?]] in a similar way to the navigation box.
 
==To do==
List here things that you'd like to see addressed in the wiki interface.


==Miscellaneous==
===Searching===
===Searching===
* Can we set default search to include Help and COLLADA [[namespace]]s?
* Can we set default search to include Help and COLLADA [[namespace]]s?

Revision as of 19:52, 12 June 2007

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

Interface text

The text in all messages, sidebars, and so on, is customizable. To see a list of the variables that control it and their current values, select System messages from Special pages.

Left navigation boxes

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

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

* navigation  <!-- "navigation" section; title is in MediaWiki: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  <!-- "public collada resources" section; title is in MediaWiki:resources -->
** forum-url|forum
** bugs-url|bugs
** hostsite-url|hostsite

To find the 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 URL or link for for that label, look at the content of the article named before the vertical bar--e.g., for forum-url, look at article MediaWiki:forum-url.

toolbox

The toolbox text and links are defined in MediaWiki:? in a similar way to the navigation box.

To do

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

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

External links

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