Help:Customizing toolbars

The left sidebar can be customized by editing Special:MyPage/skin.js or Special:MyPage/common.js. skin.js applies to only the current skin, where common.js globally applies to all skins.

Overview

General usage:

mw.util.addPortletLink( 'portletId', 'href', 'text', 'id', 'tooltip', 'accesskey', 'nextnode');

Where:

• mw.util.addPortletLink: the ResourceLoader module to add links to the portlets.
• portletId: portlet id
  • p-navigation: Navigation
  • p-interaction: Interaction
  • p-tb: Toolbox
  • coll-print_export: Print/export
• href: Link to the Wikipedia or eternal page
• text: Text that displays
• id: HTML id (optional)
• tooltip: Tooltip that displays on mouseover (optional)
• accesskey: Shortcut key press (optional)
• nextnode: Existing portlet link to place the new portlet link before (optional)

Href

Links to Wikipedia pages are of the form '/wiki/page name'; example: '/wiki/Special:NewPages'.

External links are formatted using the full URL; example: 'http://example.org'.

There are a number of configuration variables that can be used to create more complex links:

• wgArticlePath: Local path, starting at the root, to reference articles, containing a "$1" placeholder that may be replaced by a page title to get a valid URL to that page.
• wgPageName: The full name of the page, including the localized namespace name, if the namespace has a name (the main namespace (number 0) doesn't), and with blanks replaced by underscores.
• wgServer: The server URL, not terminated by "/".

Given a valid page title title, a valid URL may be constructed using wgArticlePath.replace('$1', title)

wgServer+wgArticlePath.replace("$1", "Special:ArticleFeedbackv5/"+wgPageName)

Examples

Add link to Special:NewPages in the Toolbar:

mw.util.addPortletLink ('p-tb', '/wiki/Special:NewPages', 'New Pages');

Open page in Checklinks

mw.util.addPortletLink ('p-tb', 'http://toolserver.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/webchecklinks.py/' + wgPageName
   + '?client=script&citeweb=on&overwrite=&limit=20&lang=' + wgContentLanguage, 'Checklinks');

Open page in Reflinks <source lang="javascript"> mw.util.addPortletLink ('p-tb', 'http://toolserver.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/reflinks.py?lang=' + wgContentLanguage + "&page=' + wgPageName + '&autoclick=wpPreview', 'Reflinks');