Hello Sy, thanks for your answer, though I don't know how it relates to my problem. I can modify the sidebar, just as you describe. But I can't get the desired sub-items such as * A * A1 * A2 * B (see the indentation) example (as stated) at http://contextgarden.net/Main_Page Patrick

On 27/08/05, Sy &lt;sy1234(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Hm. Then there's something odd going on, because that's working fine from where I'm viewing it: see screenshot at http://195.137.84.82/~ron/contextwiki.png It looks like that for me in Mozilla, Firefox, Konqueror and Safari! However, viewing the resulting HTML source suggests that it's not creating quite the right nesting - it has the sequence <ul><li>...</li><ul>...</ul>...</ul> rather than <ul><li>...<ul>...</ul></li>...</ul> (on a normal wiki page, you seem to get the latter form, where the sub-list is *inside* an item of the outer list). Maybe IE renders such a syntax differently? However, to add to the confusion http://contextgarden.net/MediaWiki:Sidebar shows up as empty, and I'm unable to create the same effect (or indeed, make MediaWiki:sidebar do *anything*) on my own test wiki! So maybe it is some kind of caching issue. Blarg. -- Rowan Collins BSc [IMSoP]

Sy wrote: it's not a cache problem. to see this, change the displayed title, it will show if the page is reloaded jdd -- pour m'écrire, aller sur: http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.net http://arvamip.free.fr

Sy wrote: on the navigation sidebar you see a "title" that send to a "link". on the mediawiki:sidebar, the link is the part on the left of the vertical bar | and the displayed title is the right part my mediawiki:sidebar: * navigation ** mainpage|mainpage ** portal-url|portal ** currentevents-url|currentevents ** recentchanges-url|recentchanges ** randompage-url|randompage ** helppage|help ** sitesupport-url|sitesupport change, say, "mainpage" by "MaInPaGe", save and look if this change on the left column ** mainpage|MaInPaGe Result: http://dodin.org/mediawiki/index.php/MediaWiki:Sidebar jdd -- pour m'écrire, aller sur: http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.net http://arvamip.free.fr

Dan Kohn has a good HOWTO document on his website: http://www.dankohn.com/archives/000338.html. This will add a 'tower' style block of adverts down the left-hand side of your Wiki, underneath the navigation box. - MHart ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sy" &lt;sy1234(a)gmail.com&gt; To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list" &lt;mediawiki-l(a)wikimedia.org&gt; Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2005 4:49 PM Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] 1.5rc3: navigation box On 8/27/05, jdd &lt;jdd(a)dodin.org&gt; wrote: Interesting.. after doing that I can freely update the sidebar. Before, when i added a new junk line it wouldn't appear in the sidebar: * nothing|nowhere But after mangling my mainpage|mainpage to mainpage|mainPage I noticed the update, and could then add foo|bar and see it update. This wasn't happening earlier. Wierd. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

On 30 Aug 2005 19:01:19 +0200, Patrick Gundlach &lt;pg(a)levana.de&gt; wrote: Hack the code which interprets MediaWiki:sidebar instead (includes/Skin.php, function buildSidebar())? But you'll still have to hack the skin as well, because that function doesn't define the markup, it defines the data structures which the skin uses to generate the markup. But if you do it "nicely", you could submit it as a patch at bugzilla.wikimedia.org; if it comes out ugly, you could link it to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Mediawiki_Hacks instead... -- Rowan Collins BSc [IMSoP]

On 27/08/05, Con Rodi &lt;conrodi(a)vt.edu&gt; wrote: Ah! Now you're making sense; it was never clear to me what the relationship between the "example" and the actual desired page was. Thanks for clearing that up. Yes, it's the latter - the MediaWiki:sidebar code interprets the bulletting markup specially, so that you can create separate headings with their own box of links, so it's not surprising that it doesn't also work for "normal" indentation. There *should* be documentation somewhere on meta, but... well, there may not be... cf http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/1 ;) -- Rowan Collins BSc [IMSoP]