[Wikia-l] new Monaco skin available...

Wed Feb 27 17:14:48 UTC 2008

Doh! I'll fix it.

-Christian

On Feb 27, 2008, at 7:49 AM, Victor <dawormie at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just noticed something while customising monaco somewhat...
>
> <a accesskey="z" href="/wiki/Main_Page">Muppet Wiki</a>
>
> That is in the HTML regardless of wiki you look at. Probably won't  
> make a big issue but .. should it be like that?
>
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Timothy J. Crowell <tcrow777 at gmail.com 
> > wrote:
> As an add-on note to DanTMan's email I think that
> MediaWiki:Monaco-sidebar should ignore lines without a "|" unless it
> opens a submenu.
>
> -Timothy
>
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 7:51 PM, DanTMan <dan_the_man at telus.net>  
> wrote:
> >
> >  The sidebar has always been in a format:
> >  * text
> >  ** link|text
> >  Even in the default sidebars you see:
> >  * navigation
> >  ** mainpage|mainpage
> >  Signifying that you always use the | format for links, and  
> without it the
> > item is meant to be text.
> >  In fact, last time I checked the code, if you don't specify a |  
> for the
> > MonoBook sidebar on the second level, it won't even display.
> >
> >  Perhaps, instead of a ugly workaround we should go with the  
> expected
> > standard. Anything with a | should be a link, and anything without  
> one
> > should just be text.
> >  ~Daniel Friesen(Dantman) of:
> > -The Gaiapedia (http://gaia.wikia.com)
> > -Wikia ACG on Wikia.com (http://wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_ACG)
> > -and Wiki-Tools.com (http://wiki-tools.com)
> >
> >  JohnQ wrote:
> >  I think we can solve this technically with something like what  
> Timothy
> > has below. We'd have to differentiate links from non-links on the  
> top
> > level nav and that might make it look a bit weird. Let me poke at  
> this a
> > bit to see if there's a good middle ground.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > John Q.
> >
> >
> > Timothy J. Crowell wrote:
> >
> >
> >  *|{{FULLPAGENAME}}|A
> > **a1|a1text
> > **a2|a2text
> > *{{FULLPAGENAME}}|B
> > **b1|b1text
> > **b2|b2text
> >
> > That is what I use as a workaround, something like:
> >
> > #nolinksubmenu#|A
> >
> > ...would be nice.
> >
> > -Timothy
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Jamie Hari <jamie at marveldatabase.com 
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >  Hello all,
> >
> >
> > Let me be the first to say a big thank you for all Wikia's hard  
> work on this
> > new skin! Looks amazing so far. I can't wait to hear from my  
> community about
> > it...
> >
> >
> > With that said, I have found one 'bug' with Monaco. ('bug' or  
> 'design
> > preference', what have you...)
> > In the monaco-sidebar, when defining a top-level header, it  
> automatically
> > links to the page of the same name.
> >
> > For instance:
> >
> >
> > *A
> > **a1|a1text
> > **a2|a2text
> > *B|Btext
> > **b1|b1text
> > **b2|b2text
> >
> > A and B are automatically links to [[A]] and [[B]], which may not be
> > desirable in all cases.
> > On the Marvel Database, 'Top Content' is a top-level link, but we  
> have no
> > page called 'Top Content'.
> >
> > http://en.marveldatabase.com/Top_Content
> >
> > The easy fix is a redirect, but on those wikis who don't create the
> > redirects, this could be confusing for fast-fingered new visitors...
> >  In this break-out menuing style, shouldn't we be able to define  
> if each is
> > a link or not?
> >
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> >
> > --
> > Jamie Hari
> > Editor-in-Chief
> > Marvel & DC Database Projects
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 2/25/08, JohnQ <johnq at wikia.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >  Hi everyone,
> >
> > Last Friday we made Monaco the default on 1500 of the smallest  
> wikis so
> > that we could test it out in a variety of environments. We found a  
> few
> > issues that we've been working to fix before making it more  
> generally
> > available. I'm happy to announce that Monaco is now available in  
> your
> > skin preferences so that you can check out your wiki in this new  
> skin.
> > We consider this much more a successor to monobook and hope you  
> like it.
> >
> > In the next few days, unless we find any blocking issues, all  
> wikis that
> > currently have a Quartz default will be changed to a Monaco  
> default. If
> > you want to switch it back, you can via the skin chooser. For the  
> wikis
> > with fairly heavy customization (ffxi, marveldatabase, dcdatabase,
> > wookieepedia, etc.), there should already be a custom version of  
> Monaco.
> > To check it out in advance just select "Monaco - custom" for your
> > personal skin preference (you may need to un-check "see custom" so  
> that
> > the overall wiki setting isn't overriding your personal choice).
> >
> > Some wikis have already set Monaco as the default skin by  
> themselves:
> > http://muppet.wikia.com (admins, just go to skin preferences,  
> scroll to
> > the bottom to "Admin options" and you can set it there, too).
> >
> > There is a page here:
> > http://inside.wikia.com/wiki/Monaco_Skin_Customization that talks in
> > more depth about how to customize Monaco.
> > There is a page here: http://inside.wikia.com/wiki/New_Skin_Chooser
> > that talks about the skin chooser in more depth if you have  
> questions
> > about that.
> >
> > One nice thing about Monaco is that you can create your own personal
> > sidebar and toolbox links (see the customization page for how to  
> do that).
> >
> > Please take a look at your wiki with Monaco and let us know if you  
> find
> > any issues.
> >
> > Thanks
> > John Q.
> >
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