Hey, Yury, I do feel "desperate and wretched" today, so I'll try that. I'm grateful for your suggestion. And I appreciate you recognizing the broader question-behind-the-question, too.
-- John On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 9:48 PM, Yury Katkov <[email protected]> wrote: > The broader question to the experts: how to replace the system messages > with something invisible without CSS tricks? > > John, the following method works but it really a desperate > and wretched one: add to your MediaWiki:Common.css page the following: > > span.mw-usertoollinks>a:nth-of-type(2), { > display:none; > } > > This will hide the contribslink but the extra "|" will remain. > > > ----- > Yury Katkov > > > > > On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 4:10 PM, John Sanzi <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi there, MediaWiki-l folks. For this wiki version... >> >> MediaWiki 1.19.1 >> PHP 5.2.17 (cgi-fcgi) >> MySQL 5.5.23-55 >> >> ...by any chance is there a way (that a non-programmer, like me, would >> understand) to prevent the "contribslink" from existing? Or at least >> stop some user groups from getting it? This is the link with text >> that's controlled by the "MediaWiki:contribslink" page; it appears as >> "contribs" by default, in various places. I'm never going to need >> that link. >> >> Thank you very much. >> >> -- John >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
