How to add image with link in a sidebar - MediaWiki

Question

I can add links to a MediaWiki sidebar this way:

* some-url|url-text

But how can i add image instead of text without hacking core or standard templates?

I have read this: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual_talk:Interface/Sidebar#Images_in_the_navigation_bar

But it's just a feature request.

Answer 1

Three possible approaches:

1. Write a custom skin, that handles the sidebar any way you want.
2. Write a tiny extension using the hook SkinBuildSidebar, to handle some custom code for images
3. Use MediaWiki:Common.js to modify the sidebar using javascript.

I would without doubt go for 2.

edit: Note that some skins might ignore the SkinBuildSidebar hook. As long as you have no custom skins enabled, you should be fine, though.