CharityScorecard:Site configuration notes

From CharityScorecard

1 General help/reference
2 Configuration pages on this site
3 Stylesheets
- 3.1 Common.css
- 3.2 Monobook.css
4 Original navigation box
5 Logo images
6 Namespaces
7 Page footer
8 JavaScript experiments

General help/reference

Configuration pages on this site

MediaWiki:Navihtml
MediaWiki:mainpage
Main Page -- linked to from logo; redirects to Charity Scorecard
Special:Allmessages
- appears near the bottom of any editing page
  - MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning
  - MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning2 -- by contributing you are placing your work in the public domain
- appears in e-mail
  - MediaWiki:Confirmemail_body -- by activating your account you agree to the Terms of Service
  - MediaWiki:Confirmemail -- Welcome to Charity Scorecard
  - MediaWiki:Confirmemail loggedin -- thank you... for a list of ways you can help, see You can help
- appears in page footer
  - MediaWiki:Lastmodified
    - was: "This page was last modified 2006-05-31 14:32:30."
    - hijacked to add: "Most of the content on this site is in the public domain."
    - and also to add the dozens lines of RDF that mark the page as being in the public domain
  - MediaWiki:Viewcount
    - was: "This page has been accessed 82 times."
    - hijacked for: "Terms of Service"
- CSS stylesheets
  - Mediawiki:Monobook.css -- the place to add site-specific CSS styles
    - MediaWiki:Common.css -- this is not the place to add new CSS styles (tried and failed)

Stylesheets

Common.css

I tried to add CSS styles by creating a new MediaWiki:Common.css page, which seems to work on some MediaWiki sites. More info here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Mediawiki_CSS. For whatever reason, that didn't work here on the Charity Scorecard wiki -- the rules in Common.css don't seem to be noticed.

This is a test of the MediaWiki:Common.css style ".common_css_test". This should have a green background.

Monobook.css

Then I tried adding CSS styles to the Mediawiki:Monobook.css page, as per instructions here: http://wikidev.net/MediaWiki_skin_tweaks

This is a test of the MediaWiki:Monobook.css style ".monobook_css_test". This should have a green background.

Original navigation box

These are the links that were in the nav box when the site was brand new, on 2006-04-21, before I started customizing by editing MediaWiki:Navihtml:

Logo images

Namespaces

namespace 4 (Project namespace): CharityScorecard
see also: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Namespace#List_of_namespaces

Page footer

The Page Footer looks okay, but the implementation is a bit of a mess, involving having hijacked the pages that were supposed to be for MediaWiki:Lastmodified and MediaWiki:Viewcount. At some point it would be nice to do this all properly.

Here's some info about how to change the footer: