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I'm working on a group of related wikis. I want $wgSitename to show up prominently in the left sidebar. What's a good way to do this?

I could hack the skin but this is not a good way. I looked into MediaWiki:Sidebar but there's no obvious way to get the site name in there.

There will be more than 10 wikis and I don't want to create a different logo for each wiki.

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  • use the logoimage instead? – JamesRyan Jun 22 '15 at 14:35
  • Don't really want to do that with 10 different wikis. I want to keep it as simple as possible. I'm currently thinking pywikibot may be the best way to do that since I'll be using pwb anyway and I could just write a couple of lines in Python that update MediaWiki:Sidebar based on $wgSitename but I'm still hoping for a simpler solution. – guaka Jun 22 '15 at 21:24
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You can add * {{SITENAME}} to MediaWiki:Sidebar and use some script to replicate that, or use the AddMessages extension or the MessagesPreLoad hook to set the text from code.

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  • Thanks. I think I tried something like this but didn't get it to work before. In fact * {{SITENAME}} and ** {{SITENAME}} don't work, but ** mainpage|{{SITENAME}} works well for me. – guaka Jun 30 '15 at 16:55
  • Yeah, looks like headings cannot fall back to be plain strings, they must be messages. So you must put {{SITENAME}} into MediaWiki:Something (or dynamically via the hook) and refer to that. – Tgr Jul 1 '15 at 5:25
  • If you don't care about the sitename being in the heading, you can also use the SkinBuildSidebar hook, that gives you more control. – Tgr Jul 1 '15 at 5:26

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