LOL, from the frying pan into the fire! Thank you, Brian, for taking your
time. I guess I will have to live with it for a while.

(P/S: I know that modifying mediawiki directly is bad and that's why I dare
not upgrade.)

PM Poon

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Brian <[email protected]> wrote:

> I don't like modifying mediawiki directly because the changes often get
> lost
> during upgrades, but if you can find a way to do that OK.. Probably isn't
> too hard to find grepping through the source.
>
> Otherwise, you might try jQuery if you are new to javascript, since it
> abstracts a lot of complicated things away:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/179713/how-to-change-the-href-for-a-hyperlink-using-jquery
>
> You basically have to figure out how to say, "Take all hyperlinks in class
> new and change their href attribute to be http://en.wikipedia.org/wikiplus
> their innerHTML attribute"
>
> I just learned that using FireBug.
>
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:55 PM, Ekompute .info <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi, I find it so difficult even after I download Firebug. The right panel
> > didn't say anything of Comon.css and Common.js, only main.css.
> >
> > How about tweaking the mediawiki files? Maybe I will find that easier
> > because I do go in and tinker with it, sometimes.
> >
> > >
> > > PM Poon
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Ekompute .info <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hahaha, when one does not know, everything is difficult.... Let me
> give
> > it
> > >> a try.
> > >>
> > >> PM Poon
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Brian <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Download Firefox and the FireBug extension. Open FireBug, click the
> > >>> inspect
> > >>> button. Click on a red link. FireBug will show you all the code
> related
> > >>> to
> > >>> it. You can override the css and javascript by editing the wiki files
> > >>> MediaWiki:Common.css and MediaWiki:Common.js. I don't know why you
> > >>> suppose
> > >>> editing the mediawiki source code would be easier. This is much
> easier.
> > >>> You
> > >>> do have to figure out how to do it, but this is really a trival kind
> of
> > >>> programming.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Ekompute .info <[email protected]>
> > >>> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> > Hi, thank you for your answer. I can't find any redlinks in the two
> > >>> files.
> > >>> > Would there be a simpler method by going to the Mediawiki source
> > files
> > >>> and
> > >>> > edit it directly by putting [[Wikipedia:<redlink>]] to it? If it
> > could
> > >>> be
> > >>> > done in one file, it would be easier for me, because I am not good
> at
> > >>> > programming.
> > >>> >
> > >>> > PM Poon
> > >>> >
> > >>> > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Brian <[email protected]>
> > >>> wrote:
> > >>> >
> > >>> > > Using css and javascript in MediaWiki:Common.css and
> > >>> MediaWiki:Common.js.
> > >>> > > Find all the red links, prefix their href attribute to Wikipedia.
> > >>> > >
> > >>> > > On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Ekompute .info <
> [email protected]
> > >
> > >>> > wrote:
> > >>> > >
> > >>> > > > Hi, I am writing an encyclopedia fork. Since I am doing it
> alone,
> > I
> > >>> > have
> > >>> > > a
> > >>> > > > lot of redlinks. I would like to redirect all these red links
> to
> > >>> > > Wikipedia,
> > >>> > > > while maintaining its color as still red. How should I go about
> > >>> doing
> > >>> > it?
> > >>> > > >
> > >>> > > > PM Poon
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