MediaWiki talk:Monaco-sidebar

Is there a tutorial on how to edit this and customize it? There don't seem to be normal wikilinks and I'm confused. -- Yoda8myhead 16:39, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

I don't think there is, but it's fairly straight forward. Mainly, the code for it is

*Article|Article

where the second use of "Article" can be anything, similar to doing [[Article|This article]]. This MediaWiki message also uses other MediaWiki messages, such as MediaWiki:Mainpage where it says

mainpage|{{SITENAME}}

meaning whatever is in MediaWiki:Mainpage will be in that field. You can also put category navigation in it by doing

*#category-Weapons#|Weapons

It's also good to look at some other wiki's sidebars and learn from them, such as RuneScape Wiki, Zeldapedia, Wookieepedia, etc.--Richard^talk 20:44, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

There is a help page at Help:Customizing Monaco#Main Navigation, but let me know if you need help with it. Angela<staff /> (talk) 01:33, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

When I add the line under Portals **Portal:History|History it displays on the actual sidebar as "Page History." Is there a way to get it just display "History"? -- Yoda8myhead 18:23, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Yes. It's a bit confusing. If you write "history", it looks for MediaWiki:History and uses that if it exists. If it didn't, it would just use the word history. So, the way around this is not to change MediaWiki:History because that is used in other places, but to use something like **Portal:History|History-link and then create MediaWiki:History-link with the word "history" in it (which I've just done). Angela<staff /> (talk) 04:27, 2 March 2009 (UTC)