MediaWiki talk:Sidebar

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User:Pyrrhus - feedback on your suggestion. The languages extension / templates aren't installed or working yet. I'm not sure what this would link to or how it works. I like the idea of including the search, but I think it should be in the top part eg under Popular pages. Are both Help and MEpedia herp needed? Help is just a link to mediawiki info - we could include this in the MEpedia Help category instead. A Cite this page link would also be good - in the top section.notjusttired (talk) 07:50, 26 April 2019 (EDT)
 * Thanks for the great feedback! Here’s some feedback to your feedback:
 * 1) If/when we ever pursue internationalization, this sidebar will need to be reformatted to be in internationalized style.
 * 2) The SEARCH is already in the existing sidebar but nothing shows up. I don’t know why.  To be safe, I was keeping it where it was.
 * 3) We could change ‘Help’ to read ‘MediaWiki Help’. Or we could move it from the sidebar to the MEpedia Help page as you suggest.  Either one is fine by me.
 * 4) I’m not sure how a “Cite this page” link would work. Could you clarify?
 * Pyrrhus (talk) 12:08, 26 April 2019 (EDT)
 * Cite this page is an extension, I think it will appear automatically once installed. It gives a formatted citation for the current page that people can use in their own website or article. notjusttired (talk) 06:52, May 30, 2019 (EDT)
 * Ahh. Thanks for clarifying.  If it helps, we already have a “Permanent link” under “Tools” in the sidebar, which is not a citation, but it is a permanent link that can be used when citing web pages...
 * Pyrrhus (talk) 12:28, May 30, 2019 (EDT)

links for editors
Please add a link to the upload form. It would be great to encourage people to upload their own awareness posters in particular. I just realized today that uploading is not the easiest thing to find, people often use Insert Media from articles, which means no licence choices appear. notjusttired (talk) 06:52, May 30, 2019 (EDT)
 * There is an “Upload file” link under “Tools” in the sidebar. The tutorial also directs people to the Special:Upload page.  I didn’t know that people could bypass the license choices through the VisualEditor!  That’s really annoying!
 * Pyrrhus (talk) 12:28, May 30, 2019 (EDT)
 * I think it would help to have an "upload pictures" link on the sidebar for non-editors who might just want to add millions missing photos or their own posters.
 * Another thought I had was to add a Pirtsls link to the side bar, eg for the new List of Portals page - hopefully an alternative to the Contents page- Portal:Contents/Portals ~,