Hi Shirley
My recommendations are:
1.Re-skin using the Foreground skin. The Foreground skin is based on the
Foundation Framework, which is basically a whole set of pre-packaged css to
make page design faster and more responsive. It makes it very, very easy to add
columns per page and have those columns display differently based on the device
seeing them.
2. Standard way to display PDFs inline would be the PDFHander. Another way
would be to use the GoogleViewer widget from either the Widgets or
Widgetframework extensions and in the template use the {{filepath: }} function.
Example from the Widgetframework extension:
Template:
{{GoogleViewer:url={{filepath:{{{PDF NAME}}} }} }}
Template used:
{{Name of Template
|PDF NAME=
}}
If you're using Semantic Mediawiki and edit via Semantic Forms you can add the
PDF right in the page and the user sees none of this. This method also works to
show Microsoft Word Docs, which is why I went with this method.
3.Mediawiki is very hard to limit access, but try extension: Lockdown. I
combined it with SemanticACL, which is mostly likely the least known extension
for write and visibility access control, but I find it to be highly effective.
Or if you just need to hide certain categories just write __HIDDENCAT__ in the
category page and it won't show up in the list of categories on the page being
edited.
4.Admin Links, I think is the easiest extension for editing the side bar(or the
top bar if you're using the Foreground skin).
5. You can define your own Navigation Bar in the Mediawiki Common.css, but
that's a pain. For HeaderTabs you can try extension:HeaderTabs. But the build
in HeaderTabs in the Foreground are the best HeaderTabs I've seen in the
Mediawiki Universe.
Additionally in the Foreground Skin you can create Tabs like a Navigation Bar.
Anyways those are my quick suggestions.
Chris Tharp
Sent from my iPad
On May 10, 2014, at 5:19 AM, Shirley Hicks <[email protected]> wrote:
> Good morning everyone,
>
> Am updating a makerspace mediawiki installation.
> Our ISP offers support up to version 1.19.11 (which is what I've updated to.
> I'm waiting for an answer regarding supporting more recent versions)
>
> I would like to add functions in the following areas:
>
> Context senstive sidebar menus (such as seen on the FreesideAtlanta wiki
> (https://wiki.freesideatlanta.org/fs/Classes)
> PDF display in-line on the wiki page
> Mobile-friendly display (responsive)
> Logged-in-editor-only viewing of some page categories.
> Consistent page footers and headers.
> Some additonal tabs across the top of the page, with specific page categories.
>
> Any recommendations? Am still working my way through the (many) Extensions,
> but thought that asking
> the list for their collected wisdom could shorten the process.
>
> In addition, what is the current status on blocking email bots on wiki pages?
> Is that blocked within the installation, or should users munge their email
> addresses?
>
> Also, does anyone have recommendations for page specific encryption? We have
> some
> sensitive information that it would be useful to have available via the wiki,
> but we
> are not currently using https for a secure link. Just starting to explore our
> options
> in this area. (group server at the makerspace is going live shortly; we _can_
> deploy our own web server, but quite frankly, our ISP has faster service)
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice offered. Have been subscribed to the list
> for over a year, although I've spent most of the time lurking.
>
> Shirley Hicks
> Board member-at-large
> Red Mountain Makers
> Birmingham, AL
>
> Email: [email protected]
> www.redmountainmakers.org
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