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Bug 8137 - Allow custom sidebars or custom links in interwikis
Allow custom sidebars or custom links in interwikis
Status: NEW
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
General/Unknown (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Lowest enhancement with 1 vote (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2006-12-03 18:01 UTC by Catherine Woodgold
Modified: 2014-05-03 11:49 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Catherine Woodgold 2006-12-03 18:01:08 UTC
Please provide a feature that allows admins to easily add a custom sidebar to an
individual page, and/or custom links within the interwikis, like the "Complete
list" item appearing as the last interwiki on the [[:en:wikipedia:Main
Page|English Wikipedia Main Page]].  The "Complete list" item apparently only
appears on Java-enabled browsers, though.  Perhaps let each Wikipedia configure
which type of user can add a sidebar that appears on all pages and which type of
user can add a sidebar to an individual page.  

Note that in future many pages may have too many interwikis to display and may
need a way to link to a common list of interwikis perhaps on Meta or Commons; 
e.g. there could be one file on Commons with all the interwikis for Vitamin, and
then Vitamin articles in each language could choose to list a few interwikis and
then have a link marked "complete list" going to the list of interwikis on
Commons;  then the Vitamin interwikis would only have to be maintained in one
place. I mention this so you can think about implementing the sidebar in a way
that will be compatible with that possible future direction. Custom sidebars may
also have other uses. Thank you for considering my suggestion.

See
[[:en:wikipedia:Talk:Main_Page/Archive_83#Provide_a_way_to_get_to_all_the_Wikipedias
|discussion]] "Provide a way to get to all the Wikipedias" in archive 83 of
English Wikipedia Talk:Main Page
Comment 1 Aryeh Gregor (not reading bugmail, please e-mail directly) 2006-12-03 18:26:12 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> Note that in future many pages may have too many interwikis to display and may
> need a way to link to a common list of interwikis perhaps on Meta or Commons; 
> e.g. there could be one file on Commons with all the interwikis for Vitamin, and
> then Vitamin articles in each language could choose to list a few interwikis and
> then have a link marked "complete list" going to the list of interwikis on
> Commons;  then the Vitamin interwikis would only have to be maintained in one
> place.

This is an entirely separate issue.  If you want this implemented, please open a
separate bug.
Comment 2 Nemo 2014-05-03 11:49:16 UTC
> This is an entirely separate issue.  If you want this implemented, please
> open a
> separate bug.

I'd say that's now bug 64793.

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