[IAEP] Wiki Sugar_Labs GettingInvolved links seem broken

[Walter Bender]

Gary is not the only one who has used this mechanism in the wiki. I
used it extensively on the Download pages, for example. But there is
no reason why we cannot have absolute paths that work in the new
reorganization of the wiki.

-walter



On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:44 PM, David Farning <dfarning at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> 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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Walter Bender
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