Last modified: 2011-03-13 18:04:39 UTC
I thought it would be usefull if someone could use different logos and sidebars in different namespaces (e.g. different logo for the Help namespace and a sidebar with the help categories) but i couldn't find a way to do it. So i created a patch that does the folowing: You can change the logo on a namespace using the $wgNamespaceLogos array. $wgNamespaceLogos = array(<namespace_number> => <url_path_to/logo.gif>) You can attach a custom sidebar to a namespace by creating a message "nsbar_<namespace_number>" in the MediaWiKi namespace (that has the same format as the "sidebar" message). Hope you find it useful :-) Nick
Created attachment 1087 [details] Patch for Skin.php To apply the patch, save the patch to a file e.g. nsattrs.patch, go to the mediawiki directory and run: patch -p0 < nsattrs.patch
Note: The above patch is for version 1.5.2
*** Bug 2291 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 2238 [details] patch for r16100 adding namespace-specific interfaces (1.8-svn) This patch does pretty much the same thing as the 1.5.2 patch, for 1.8. Logos (same): - $wgNamespaceLogos -- array: NS_* => [logo url] Sidebar (different): - sidebar[NS_*] (instead of nsbar_[NS_*]) -- sidebar sounds better than nsbar, IMHO - sidebar[NS_*] replaces sidebar, instead of augmenting it, but falls back to sidebar if it doesn't exist
Going to close this as WONTFIX, because I don't think this is something we need in core. However, there are a few good workarounds to do what you want. Since we include the namespace as a class on <body> (in addition to in the Javascript globals we provide), it's very easy to write custom CSS and use Javascript to manipulate the page on a per-namespace basis. Same goes for the sidebar: you can write a function to hook into SkinBuildSidebar to customize the sidebar; this does break the sidebar cache, though.
Note that for instance, you can do a per-namespace logo with CSS like this: body.ns-1 #p-logo a { background-image: url(my_talk_logo_url.png) !important; } That will use the given image for the logo in ns1 (i.e., Talk:). The logo is only added in the first place using CSS anyway. So a whole new config option just for this is overboard.
