Topic: The Wiki

[ѕησω]

Perhaps the online manual logo from the doc site theme to the wiki theme as well?

[Labradoodle-360]

When I was designing the SMF Curve Theme for MediaWiki, I was instructed to add the "SimpleMachines" logo rather than the "Online Manual" logo; so I think this is how they are wanting it to be.

[Joshua Dickerson]

Yep, no online manual logo.

[ѕησω]

Since were going for perfection. The top menu needs to have the same drop downs as the the home page, community, download, etc.

[Labradoodle-360]

Personally, I think that the developers who have access to SMF's main code, as well as the Wiki should make the top menu a single function (template_topnav) for instance, so it only has to be defined in one place and then called up in the wiki and SMF's Community code.

[Joshua Dickerson]

I can't really figure out how all of the sidebar is created. Once I can figure that out, I am going to change some things up. I want to remove all of that navigation stuff from the sidebar and put it at the top like SMF does. I want to have the Hello, {username}\nRecent Changes\nWatchlist\nMy Contributions\n

In the top bar menu I'd like to put Home, Help, Search, Member (drop down with: User:{username}, Preferences, Talk, Watchlist, Contributions), Members, Logout. I'm thinking between Home and Help I'd also like to put Page with a drop down for the editing controls.

That would remove the need for the first two things in the sidebar: user and navigation. I'd move the search up to the top of that and move page controls just under that. Page controls: Edit, History, Delete, Move, Protect, <hr>, Watch, Refresh. Also in there, I'd like some Javascript to show/hide the [edit] links. It might also link to the user's preferences so you can either have them on/off when browsing.

If at all possible, breadcrumb navigation would be awesome to add. This would probably have to be a template or something that is grabbed by the skin. I don't know how that would work. Then there are the SMF topic buttons like reply/add poll/notify but we'd put in Edit/Delete/Watch.

I have a lot more planned for this skin but I have trouble with skinning MW.

[Labradoodle-360]

I spent hours getting to know MediaWiki's code to write the SMF Curve Theme for MediaWiki. If you want something changed, just let me know and I'll help you out.

[B]

Can we flip the User Info and Navigation sections on the left? It seems counter intuitive to have the user links first.

B

[Joshua Dickerson]

B, that's the point of what I was discussing. I don't want that info over there.

[B]

I meant in the meantime, but I suppose I can wait.

B

[AngelinaBelle]

If you want something changed, just let me know and I'll help you out.

Would it be possible to do a little adjustment to the textbox for editing an article? Some little problem with width causes "dueling scrollbars", at least with IE8.

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=412572.0

[AngelinaBelle]

I'd like the HTML output by the code tag to change.
At the moment, the code tag seems mostly useless.
And Josh has asked if I could make a {{code}} template to do the "select" bit we have on the forum.
After a little thought, I realized I could not.  http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Template_talk:Code

I think I'd like to see <.code> become

Code: [Select]

<div class="codeheader">Code: <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return smfSelectText(this);" class="codeoperation">
[Select]</a></div>    <code class="codebody">

Which would make </code>

Code: [Select]

</code>
If that doesn't work, then I probably just want to nest in a <.pre> tag inside the <.code> output.
Either way, I'd want to re-skin code pre

I think this change is needed because there is no way, in wikitext, to do

<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return smfSelectText(this);" class="codeoperation">

Following this change, we'd just have to add

• to the CSS, styles for .codeheader and .codebody, as well as .codeheader pre, to keep it looking good by removing the dashed blue border
  
• to the js, function smfSelectText(this)