Thread:Project:Forum/How do I edit the sidebar? Which file should I look at?/reply (2)

I have the same question. I have been looking to the explanation at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Interface/Sidebar. But it is totally unclear how to get the newly made sidebar visible. I am administrator of the following mentioned site.Therefore the following statement in the localsettings should be enough to change the sidebar: require_once( "$IP/includes/DefaultSettings.php" );

Therefore I have the following questions:

1) I made a new page "DIY_Book_Scanner_Wiki:sidebar" because $wgSitename        = "DIY Book Scanner Wiki"; $wgDefaultSkin = 'monobook';

In the explanation it says: //yourdomain/yourwiki/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Sidebar&action=edit

Well the original mainpage looks like this http://diybookscanner.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

So the new sidebar should be made by this http://diybookscanner.org/wiki/index.php?title=Wiki:Sidebar&action=edit

but this gives an error: Bad title The requested page title was invalid, empty, or an incorrectly linked inter-language or inter-wiki title. It may contain one or more characters which cannot be used in titles. Return to Main Page.

Then I tried http://diybookscanner.org/wiki/DIY Book Scanner Wiki/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Sidebar&action=edit

Since "DIY Book Scanner Wiki" is the namespace for the wiki.

Then I will get: The requested URL /wiki/DIY Book Scanner Wiki/index.php was not found on this server

Maybe the fault here are the spaces in the namespace.

So I tried:

http://diybookscanner.org/wiki/index.php?title=DIY_Book_Scanner_Wiki:Sidebar&action=edit

and this made the page.

However it doesn't replace the original sidebar. In the Manual:Interface/Sidebar is nothing which tells what to add or delete to any file on our server.

What did i do wrong or what went wrong during the installation of the Wikisite

2) In the sidebar I try to implement a menu in the menu like this -Commercial book scanners    -- V-shaped book scanners    -- Planetary book scanners  -Hardware    -- Guides for building DIY V-shaped book scanners    -- Guides for building DIY planetary book scanners    -- Material guidance  So, a kind of collapsable menu. Is this possible with monobook or is programming necessary to become this available?

Thank you in advance for answering and educating me. Yours truly