User:Jogginghose

Yes so, well.

Someone suggested that one must edit some stuff on their user page as to avoid being filtered out as a spambot.

So here I go. Jogginghose is the german word for jogging trousers, if that's an english term at all.

Another edit: I was trying to buy some jogging trousers for better hanging around at home, posting newbie questions to mediawiki board, but I failed in both plans.

Heading: here goes the post that has been flagged as spam
Hello wikians,

I am trying to set up a Wiki for the purpose of using it as a knowledge base that can be edited by multiple privileged users. I want to use mediawiki/Vector because people are familiar with the look and feel and can get familiar with the editing style.

Version is 1.19.14+dfsg-1 and I'm happy with the Vector skin and would like to customize it.

For my purpose I don't need most of the sidebar links like "languages" and "what links here" and so on. Further I would really like to move the TOC into the sidebar by default for all users, so one can always navigate to the different sections of a page even a longer TOC doesn't take room in the page's body.

That said, I'm having a hard time unserstanding the interaction of the skin, php, js and all that. My knowledge of php and js is close to zero, sometimes I can guess the more descriptive functions...

The way my "research" went I came to find that

a) the TOC is being created by the Parser.php located in mediawiki/includes/parser/ . I guess it's "public function formatHeadings" that does it for every page?

b) the standard sidebar is rendered by Vector.php down from "//render portals".

I managed to comment out the unneeded portals like toolbox etc.

How would I include a TOC for the current page in the sidebar? Can it be done by copy and paste?

If there's a reliable extension that does it, I'd be happy to use that, too.

Cheers :)

Vector Skin / modify sidebar to show table of contents TOC
This would be the headline of my post, if it ever appeared on the Support page.

Gotta say that a "classic" discussion board would be gold.

Like, you know, those simple phpboard things or what they're called.