Difference between revisions of "MediaWiki/archive/customizing"

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Navigation

{{#lst:MediaWiki|navbar}}: customization

Links

MediaWiki Customization at mediawiki.org

Articles

extensions: custom coding using MW's built-in extensibility
user-group security

Managed Customization

MediaWiki will include the contents of mediawiki:Common.css, if found, in the CSS code it uses for defining the appearance of its pages. (The initial character in "Common" does not seem to be case-sensitive, even if the site has the initial-caps flag turned off.)

Code Notes

(From Woozle 20:59, 15 Jun 2005 (CDT). Eventually to be given their own section, I expect.)

Everything obviously starts with index.php.
For the purpose of displaying a page (not saving changes or doing anything else), this calls $wgArticle->view(), in Article.php (line 699)
$wgArticle->view() appears to be able to provide a few other formats besides the regular view (including difference engine and displaying redirections as subtitles), but I'm ignoring that for now
$wgOut seems to be the object which accumulates text to be output, via various methods:
- $wgOut->addWikiText(...)
- $wgOut->addHTML(...)
- $wgOut->addPrimaryWikiText() # Display content and save to parser cache
- $wgOut->addWikiText() # Display content, don't attempt to save to parser cache
- $wgOut->setPageTitle()
- $wgOut->transformBuffer(); # Put link titles into the link cache
- $wgOut->addMetaTags(); # Add link titles as META keywords
...and then it does these two lines:
- $this->viewUpdates(); (found at line 1926 -- doesn't do much)
- wfProfileOut( $fname );
It's not clear whether the navbar has already been pulled in by the time we hit viewUpdates -- possibly transformBuffer does it? The comment makes it sound like that, but the name "transformBuffer" in that case is not very descriptive. The code in there should probably be examined.

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-=={{hide|navbar}}==
+==Navigation==
-{{web software|MediaWiki}}: [[MediaWiki customization|customization]]
+<section begin=navbar />{{#lst:MediaWiki|navbar}}: [[MediaWiki customization|customization]]<section end=navbar />
 ==Links==
 * [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Customization MediaWiki Customization] at mediawiki.org
 ==Articles==
-* [[modifying MediaWiki menus]]
+* [[/menus]]
-* [[shortening MediaWiki URLs]]
+* [[/new navbox]]
-* [[add a new navigation box to MediaWiki]]
+* [[/new Special page]]
-* [[modifying the MediaWiki searchbox]]
+* [[/outward-looking]]
-* [[MediaWiki user-group security]]
+* [[/searchbox]]
-==Extensions of Interest==
+* [[/URLs]]
-Available MediaWiki [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Extensions extensions] which look like they could be useful:
-* '''portal-type features''':
+Related:
-** [[metawikipedia:My blog|My blog]]: blogging features
+* {{l/same|extensions}}: custom coding using MW's built-in extensibility
-** [[metawikipedia:Tasks extension|Tasks extension]] and [[metawikipedia:Tasks Extension|Tasks Extension]]: rudimentary multi-user project management
+* {{l/same|user-group security}}
-** [[metawikipedia:WikiFeeds|WikiFeeds]] adds to the standard feeds: Newest pages, Recent changes by user, Newest pages by user, User watchlist, Recent changes for articles in a category, Newest articles in a category
+==Managed Customization==
-* '''data display''':
+MediaWiki will include the contents of [[mediawiki:Common.css]], if found, in the CSS code it uses for defining the appearance of its pages. (The initial character in "Common" does not seem to be case-sensitive, even if the site has the initial-caps flag turned off.)
-** syntax highlighting
-*** [[metawikipedia:Syntax Highlighting Extension|Syntax Highlighting Extension]]: requires [http://www.beautifier.org Beautifier Syntax Highlighting Engine]
-*** [[metawikipedia:GeSHiCodeTag Extension|GeSHiCodeTag Extension]]
-** [[metawikipedia:TabbedData extension|TabbedData extension]]: useful for directly posting spreadsheets, though formatting may not be as nice as the converter; evaluation needed
-* '''data management''':
-** [[metawikipedia:Attribute Extension|Attribute Extension]]: adds an "attribute" tab to all pages; stores attribute data in a table
-* '''[[MediaWiki user-group security|groups / security]]''':
-* '''convenience''':
-** [[metawikipedia:Special page to work with the interwiki table|Special:Interwiki]] by Stephanie Amanda Stevens (phroziac)
-* '''experimental''' (keep an eye on these to see if they become useful):
-** [[mwsite:Extension:WikiDB|Extension:WikiDB]] creates virtual tables within the wiki and lets you output their contents dynamically
-** [[mwsite:Extension:Semantic MediaWiki|Extension:Semantic MediaWiki]]
 ==Code Notes==
 ''(From [[User:Woozle|Woozle]] 20:59, 15 Jun 2005 (CDT). Eventually to be given their own section, I expect.)''
-*Everything obviously starts with [[index.php (MediaWiki)|index.php]]
+*Everything obviously starts with [[MediaWiki/files/index.php|index.php]].
-*For the purpose of displaying a page (not saving changes or doing anything else), this calls $wgArticle->view(), in [[Article.php (MediaWiki)|Article.php]] (line 699)
+*For the purpose of displaying a page (not saving changes or doing anything else), this calls $wgArticle->view(), in [[MediaWiki/files/Article.php|Article.php]] (line 699)
 *$wgArticle->view() appears to be able to provide a few other formats besides the regular view (including difference engine and displaying redirections as subtitles), but I'm ignoring that for now
 *$wgOut seems to be the object which accumulates text to be output, via various methods: