Comments on: Adding Custom Tabs to MediaWiki

By: ds093

ds093 — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:35:01 +0000

Thank you for this hack. However I am getting some weird activity with subpages of the new namespace. Essentially, I get a “Page” tab trying to link to the subpage in the main namespace and then I have two double tabs for the new namespace. So what it looks like is “Page” “Custom” “Discussion” “Custom” “Edit” etc.

Any thoughts to get around this? Thanks.

By: Uma

Uma — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:00:42 +0000

It’s great!

But the step 3–is this required?infact what does it do?

By: vivani

vivani — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:53:32 +0000

What if the tabs need to be inserted as a part of the page content? Any ideas on that one?
Looking forward to knowing about it asap.
Thanks

By: vivani

vivani — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:31:44 +0000

What if the tabs need to be inserted as a page of the page content? Any ideas on that one?
Looking forward to knowing about it asap.
Thanks

By: Poon Poi Ming

Poon Poi Ming — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 08:03:20 +0000

Okay, got it! Did not change the 100 to appropiate namespace at:
//if you are in the new namespace…
if ( $this->mTitle->getNamespace() == 100 ) {

By: Poon Poi Ming

Poon Poi Ming — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:34:17 +0000

Hi, this is very interesting. I managed to add in three additional tabs but the part where when I click the new label, the article tab on the new page is screwed up… I have replaced the 4 lines with your suggestion but yet, it didn’t work. What could be the reason?

By: Matthew Burton

Matthew Burton — Fri, 16 May 2008 02:42:37 +0000

Thanks Rich! I’ve edited the post to make light of this change.

By: Rich Hewett (Vicious the Jester)

Rich Hewett (Vicious the Jester) — Fri, 16 May 2008 01:26:33 +0000

I tried this and it didn’t work. However, a couple days later, I tried to re-do the adding of the custom namespaces using the instructions at MediaWiki. When I did this, it started working. I’m using MediaWiki 1.12

The MediaWiki instructions I followed were at:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Using_custom_namespaces

I will also mention that with 1.12, you edit common.js (instead of monobook.js).

Thanks for the help. This is great!!!