MediaWiki Tricks

Nyud.net mirror

To use the excellent nyud.net mirror service to host the thumbnail pictures (File:Picture.jpg this trick will rewrite the url to include nyud.net:8080.

File: includes/Linker.php, line 581 (v1.11.1):

Original line:

return str_replace("\n", ' ',$prefix.$s.$postfix);

New edit:

return str_replace("\n", ' ',$prefix.str_replace("<img alt=\"\" src=\"/wiki/","<img alt=\"\" 
 src=\"http://beta.ivancover.com.nyud.net:8080/wiki/",$s).$postfix);

Left menu boxes

To add new boxes the the left menu, each box has to be hard coded into the MonoBook.php skin file.

File: skins/MonoBook.php, line 164 to add a box under the navigation (v1.11.1):

Search portion:

<?php } ?>
<div id="p-search" class="portlet">

New box:

 <div class='portlet'>
  <h5>site support</h5>
 </div>