Extension talk:Glossary

the code you said to find in the in glossary.php, is not there ,i.e. begins with $title.

see the bit here

// Get the list of emoticons from the "MediaWiki:Glossary" article. $title = Title::makeTitle( null, 'Glossary' ); $emoticonListArticle = new Article( $title ); $emoticonListArticle->getContent;

Tarlachmoorhouse 10:13, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

It Stops links working
The tool tip is great but I'd like to take it a bit further (but don't know enough about how to do it), I want to be able to make the entries automatic links to pages that would contain more information on the TLA.

I tried putting wikilinks around the TLA e.g. do it manually FTP or even List of FTP Clients but it just displays the brackets rather than making it a link.

I know that the system already does a tool tip with wiki links, this would saving having to create a link such as FTP to get the tooltip to display the full name

FTP//File Transfer Protocol


 * 1) this would display as:- FTP (but in blue)
 * 2) it would show a tool tip of:- File Transfer Protocol
 * 3) would be a link to:- File Transfer Protocol (FTP) e.g. File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

I could then create a page on FTP with more details, also possibly putting the page into a category 'Glossary' etc.

Tarlachmoorhouse 08:35, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Make the Glossary page readable
The following simple adjustments make the glossary a readable page.

lines 63-69 // If the content successfully loaded, do the replacement if( $emoticonListArticle->mContentLoaded ) {                       $emoticonList = explode( "\n;", $emoticonListArticle->mContent ); foreach( $emoticonList as $index => $emoticon ) {                               $currEmoticon = explode( ":", $emoticon, 2 );

then you can do your glossary as a list using the ;Item:explanation wiki markup, so that it looks like this:


 * Item:Explanation
 * Item:Explanation.

also - this needs to be updated to work w/ firefox and to ignore template calls, and work inside headings and items that land in the TOC. I think in order to work w/ Firefox AND to allow for the ability to link mentioned above, It'll have to be modified to create a floating DIV that will pop up on mouseover...It'd take some JavaScript, i think, but probably could be Inline and not require anything in the heading...

Made the Glossary page readable
I made a few changes to get this to work more effectively. I changed the target glossary word color to green so it is more obvious that it is special and I implemented the above suggestion to make the glossary more readable (explode on : and take out leading ;). Working in 1.10.1 and with Firefox. Cheers, Wade.

Here is the revised php extension file:

Does the extension work with MediaWiki version 1.10.1?

I didn't manage to make it work.

--Jperl 09:30, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

Can't make it work with 1.10.1
This extension is really usefull, and the last adding to make it more "readable" great, but I can't make it work on the current version of MediaWiki which is 1.10.1, does anyone have a solution ?

Knowing that the extension it is based on (emoticons) works perfectly. Did you mean this error... Warning: preg_replace [function.preg-replace]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat at offset 5 in ....extensions\Glossary\Glossary.php on line 91

Just made it work with 1.10.1
just made it work with mw version 1.10.1. --Jperl 17:16, 5 August 2007 (UTC)


 * You going to tell everyone how you did that? Will make life a whole lot easier for those who encounter the same issue ;) --Dr DBW 08:04, 21 August 2007 (UTC)