![]() TOOLBOX stands for the Tools menu and SEARCH for the Search block with the text field for performing searches. As you can see only the navigation menu has its links listed. Links in the menu are shown with two asterisks **. In the content of the MediaWiki:Sidebar page each menu title is shown with a single asterisk *. Simply click on it, make the change and save it. If you haven't edited the page so far, when you open it instead of an Edit button you'll see a button for creating the page. You'll see its default content: * navigation To make changes to the menus, you need to open MediaWiki:Sidebar and open its edit form as any regular page. Note that when it comes to removing menus and menu links the things that you can do with MediaWiki:Sidebar are limited, especially in relation to the Tools menu. By default, only admins/sysops have that right. Keep in mind that only users that have the editinterface user right are allowed to edit the page MediaWiki:Sidebar. MediaWiki:Sidebar affects all pages on the site (the CSS method can be used to apply changes per page, per namespace, or to the whole site). Unlike the CSS method, this one is not skin-specific. We'll concentrate on removing the menu links and whole menus that are managed with this page.Ĭhanges made to MediaWiki:Sidebar are applied to all skins. In this article we'll not go into details about all the things you can do with that page. It can be used to customize the sidebar menus. On your site there's a page called MediaWiki:Sidebar (e.g. by modifying the page MediaWiki:Sidebar.We'll review a couple of different methods for doing that: We'll show you how to remove a whole menu or just some of the links in the menus. In this article we'll go over how to hide any of these menus. The Search block is also considered part of the sidebar sometimes it's displayed at a different location on the site, but usually it's shown with these two menus. The other menu is labeled Tools and it has links such as What links here, Related changes, Special pages, etc. One of these menus is usually labeled Navigation and it contains the links Main page, Recent changes, Random page, Help. ![]() Most often they are collectively referred to as the sidebar, or sometimes they are also referred to as the quickbar. Usually they are shown in the left column of the site, but this is skin-specific. In MediaWiki there are a couple of default menus that are displayed on every page of the site. Knowledgebase How to remove the Search block, the Navigation and Tools menus and menu links in MediaWiki
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