[IAEP] Wiki Sugar_Labs GettingInvolved links seem broken

[David Farning]

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
> On 15 Mar 2009, at 22:01, Eben Eliason wrote:
>
>> Sure, but in this instance we're talking about anchor links which are
>> meant to jump to specific sections of the GettingInvolved page on the
>> wiki.  These should definitely be fixed, and really needn't be
>> absolute since they're just named anchors of the current page.
>
> Quick notes on why there are absolute links here :-)
>
> Wiki's are really, really, bad at doing the more useful UI navigation
> things with images. The wiki specifically wants, and goes out of it's
> way, to make all images to go to their copyright/upload pages. If you
> want to make useful navigation images, well, you're kind'a just
> screwed to be honest (and I wasted the best part of a day looking).
> There are some template tricks, some css hacks (both of which require
> absolute addressing of image and link, yuch); a cleaner trick for if
> you have the image map wiki extension (we don't have that), and some
> tentative suggestions in the mediawiki docs that a future version
> (mediawiki 1.14) has a better solution for making navigation images.

Sorry, I should have followed up on this.

Gary had to use a class="plainlinks" hack to get the images to work
correctly.  This was not something the mediawiki developers though we
should be doing:)

david

> Regards,
> --Gary
>
>> - Eben
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Ivan has been helping us integrate the navigation between the static
>>> intro and the wiki, as the media launch begins tomorrow morning and
>>> it
>>> is vital first-time visitors can find their way out of the wiki.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:55 PM, Eben Eliason <eben.eliason at gmail.com
>>> > wrote:
>>>> They're not working for me either.  The links need to be updated to
>>>> point to the wiki subdomain, eg.
>>>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/GettingInvolved#Translator;
>>>> right now they just point to sugarlabs.org (Not sure why the links
>>>> need to be absolute anyway...)
>>>>
>>>> - Eben
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>> Gary C Martin wrote:
>>>>>> Just a quick heads up, I'm afraid don't have time to look at this
>>>>>> right now.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The icon links on:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>       http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/GettingInvolved
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ... all seem broken, clicking on an icon does not take you to the
>>>>>> anchor. It was working fine, not sure when it broke.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The wiki did get some work done on it today, so not sure if it's
>>>>>> related to that recent change, or just broken by subsequent wiki
>>>>>> edits. FWIW, the image links were created with a fairly hairy
>>>>>> template
>>>>>> trick, but that was about cleanest possible solution given the
>>>>>> version
>>>>>> of media wiki and plug-ins we had back then.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> --Gary
>>>>>
>>>>> It works for me here. Hmmm.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>    Simon
>>>>>
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