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 > > >>> > > > _______________________________________________ > > >>> > > > MediaWiki-l mailing list > > >>> > > > [email protected] > > >>> > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > >>> > > > > > >>> > > > > >>> > > > > >>> > > > > >>> > > -- > > >>> > > You have successfully failed! > > >>> > > _______________________________________________ > > >>> > > MediaWiki-l mailing list > > >>> > > [email protected] > > >>> > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > >>> > > > > >>> > _______________________________________________ > > >>> > MediaWiki-l mailing list > > >>> > [email protected] > > >>> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > >>> > > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> -- > > >>> You have successfully failed! > > >>> _______________________________________________ > > >>> MediaWiki-l mailing list > > >>> [email protected] > > >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > >>> > > >> > > >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > MediaWiki-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > > > > > -- > You have successfully failed! > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
