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Oskar Sigvardsson

22 Sep 22 Sep

10:11 a.m.

That is nifty! It seems to be a relatively straigtforward change to monobook.js, and then use a version of the http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorlage:Navigationsleiste_ohne_Bild (that might lead to some heavy transclusion though). --gkhan PS. I'm crap at these things really, so please someone else comment :P On 9/22/05, Worldtraveller <wikipedia(a)world-traveller.org> wrote:

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On the German Wikipedia, I've noticed they've got a nifty trick with templates whereby you can include a button to hide an infobox, in the same way as you can hide a contents box. See an example down at the bottom of this page: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thematische_Navigation_Deutschsprachige_L%C3%A… I don't know of any templates to do the same thing on en:, and when I tried to replicate the code on the German templates it didn't work. Does anyone know how one might get something similar working on en:? WT _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

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Phroziac

1:55 p.m.

That's really cool. Is there any reason we shouldn't be bold and implement it? On 9/22/05, Oskar Sigvardsson <oskarsigvardsson(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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That is nifty! It seems to be a relatively straigtforward change to monobook.js, and then use a version of the http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorlage:Navigationsleiste_ohne_Bild (that might lead to some heavy transclusion though). --gkhan PS. I'm crap at these things really, so please someone else comment :P On 9/22/05, Worldtraveller <wikipedia(a)world-traveller.org> wrote:

On the German Wikipedia, I've noticed they've got a nifty trick with templates whereby you can include a button to hide an infobox, in the same way as you can hide a contents box. See an example down at the bottom of this page: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thematische_Navigation_Deutschsprachige_L%C3%A… I don't know of any templates to do the same thing on en:, and when I tried to replicate the code on the German templates it didn't work. Does anyone know how one might get something similar working on en:? WT _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

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Phroziac

10:09 p.m.

Agreed, let's double check all that before continuuing. By the way, it wasn't lupins popups -- I cannot get this to work when I am logged in! On 9/23/05, Fastfission <fastfission(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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It would be good to make sure it works on all major browsers, first, or at least fails gracefully/unnoticeably. Though I certainly support a Wikipedia which doesn't dumb down to the lowest common technological denominator on its default skin, I think it's important to remember that many of our users (esp. those at schools and libraries) may not be using very new technology (and there's no reason to construct a technological/economic hurdle). This of course applies in general, not just this to instance. (I'm aware they could change the skin settings, but for the *default* skin, I think this sort of thing needs to be taken into consideration explicitly with all "neat tricks") FF On 9/22/05, Phroziac <phroziac(a)gmail.com> wrote:

That's really cool. Is there any reason we shouldn't be bold and implement it? On 9/22/05, Oskar Sigvardsson <oskarsigvardsson(a)gmail.com> wrote:

That is nifty! It seems to be a relatively straigtforward change to monobook.js, and then use a version of the http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorlage:Navigationsleiste_ohne_Bild (that might lead to some heavy transclusion though). --gkhan PS. I'm crap at these things really, so please someone else comment :P On 9/22/05, Worldtraveller <wikipedia(a)world-traveller.org> wrote:

On the German Wikipedia, I've noticed they've got a nifty trick with templates whereby you can include a button to hide an infobox, in the same way as you can hide a contents box. See an example down at the bottom of this page: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thematische_Navigation_Deutschsprachige_L%C3%A… I don't know of any templates to do the same thing on en:, and when I tried to replicate the code on the German templates it didn't work. Does anyone know how one might get something similar working on en:? WT _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

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Phroziac

2:55 p.m.

On the global .css and .js, or just yours? And, did you hard refresh a few times? Also, there is a common .css file, and probably a .js too, that's shared by all skins. this should go there, instead of in an individual skin. (for the glodbal) On 9/22/05, Worldtraveller <wikipedia(a)world-traveller.org> wrote:

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I decided to be bold, copied across the relevant code from Monobook.js and style definitions from Monobook.css, and created Template:Dynamic navigation box, but it seems not to work. I don't know any javascript so it's possible I've ballsed everything up. Any JS experts care to cast an eye on this? -----Original Message----- From: Phroziac [mailto:phroziac@gmail.com] Sent: 22 September 2005 2:56 PM To: Oskar Sigvardsson; English Wikipedia Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Funky tricks on de That's really cool. Is there any reason we shouldn't be bold and implement it? On 9/22/05, Oskar Sigvardsson <oskarsigvardsson(a)gmail.com> wrote:

That is nifty! It seems to be a relatively straigtforward change to monobook.js, and then use a version of the http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorlage:Navigationsleiste_ohne_Bild (that might lead to some heavy transclusion though). --gkhan

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