Extension:GroupsSidebar
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 Release status: unmaintained |
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| Implementation | User interface |
| Description | Allows to add sidebar elements for specific user groups |
| Author(s) | churchofemacs (Church of emacstalk) |
| Latest version | 0.3.0 (2019-08-11) |
| MediaWiki | 1.23+ |
| License | GNU General Public License 3.0 or later |
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The GroupsSidebar extension allows to add sidebar elements for specific user groups. If you have usergroups and would like to add sidebar elements just for certain usergroups, you can use this extension.
InstallationEdit
- Download and place the file(s) in a directory called
GroupsSidebarin yourextensions/folder.
- Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php:
require_once "$IP/extensions/GroupsSidebar/GroupsSidebar.php";
- Adapt as required
Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.
System messagesEdit
The resulting message names are "MediaWiki:Sidebar-groupname" whereas groupname is something like "sysop" or "user". For example, the message name could be "MediaWiki:Sidebar-sysop". You can edit it the same way you edit the normal sidebar.
If you are using these functions within you wiki's sidebar, you cannot set
$wgEnableSidebarCache = true;.