Forum:Anyone know how to add reftagger

I would like to add the reftagger to my Wikia pages, and was wondering if anyone know how to do it, as the script evidently has to be put in the skins folder. It pops up the actual text to a Bible reference when you do a mouse hover over it. Thanks


 * It sounds feasible - I suggest requesting this via Special:Contact. You might be able to do it more directly using the JS pages on your wiki (like MediaWiki:Common.js), but I don't have enough experience with JS to help you reformat it. 11:49, 5 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks, good tip. And nice logo. I likely have less experience that you and will ask the special desk.Christinsouldr 02:40, 6 May 2009 (UTC)


 * The special contact said that the reftagger is incompatible with their customized version of mediawiki. Sorry It works well with regular web pages: http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/The_Lord%27s_Supper.html


 * Wikia has a special MediaWiki (MW) software in what sense? well normal farms what they do is have 1 version of MW and every time a wiki is installed a separate MW is install in their servers, wikia does not do that they have a single MW that is able to work with the 9000+ wikis at the same time what does that mean? that when Wikia updates their MW software 9000+ wikis get updated and it removes the burden for them to go and update every single wiki 1 by one, also when an extension is turn ON generally its also turn for 9000+ wikis, the issue is that devs in the past had to normally patch or in other cases rewrite full extensions so it could work with wikias multi wiki system. So the 2 options are that extension Devs modify their extension to be more compatible but im not sure this will happen the other one is that Wikia Devs rewrite this extension but to do so needs to be an open extension project and there must be a real community drive requesting this extension --


 * Many questions, in re to which i know nothing. As for community drive, this admittedly is a specialized application, which a wiki like theopedia would use more (though they do not yet have it). But it has potential, even as a dictionary for certain words, or for popup references.Christinsouldr 02:10, 8 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Yes, and no about the usefulness at the end would have to be a extension that its disable by default and has to be request as we have diversity of wikis and part are games/movies/series and they have words that are related to their original meaning but in a different way so it will be fighting against that many wiki own slightly different or completely different terms. Now the biggest bug i can see its the language barrier bug as my guess this only would be useful for english wikis so again this limit even more this extension. What i could think of alternative its that at your wiki do it as a project and start creating templates that do almost the same thing and that way the wiki has control on this rather to delegate the control over wikia if the wiki wants to modify something --

If you read their instructions for 'installing' in mediawiki here, its not an extension. They want you to edit Monobook.php directly, and add the blog of js code (which would likely be different/custom per the wiki) directly into the bottom of the page area. We do not support these kind of installs, because of many reasons. Mainly, that the code is not separate per wiki, that one file serves ALL the wikis, being in an extension allows us to turn it off/on per wiki. Second, its only installing in just monobook (which is normal for most mediawiki installs as they only have monobook out of the box, and most only customize monobook, not add new whole skins), but we have many other skins that people use, so it would have to be done in a way that it would be loaded on all skins, which their isntall doesnt do. Third, their whole system would need redone so that each wiki could have a different version of that 'customizable tag' (different versions of the bible/etc), not just one hardcoded static JS, that would require wikia time if you ever needed it changed. Its not that its a bad extension, but its current state, and packaging, and install method are more suited to a private mediawiki installation then Wikia's multi-wiki shared code setup, also by not having direct code access all the time, the ability to tweak things is gone. --Uberfuzzy 21:25, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

I appreciate the attention this has been given, as well as the difficulty that prevents it from being adapted on Wikia. I know conservapedia.com was using it until they recently did an update to the newest stable version of the software, and it stopped for now. But this popup type thing can be useful.