Forum:WIkia tour .. how to feature a Special page

Over at Forum:A new Wikia tour I read that the "old" tours were never that popular. The templates described at Community Central:Wikia tour/Create a new tour stop are easy enough to copy and use. So I feel that if the existing tour creation package is better advertised then maybe more communities will take advantage of it.
 * After 18 months using Wikia hosted communities I'd not even heard of these tours until today and so getting the word out may not have been as successful as intended.

I wanted to feature the Special:WidgetDashboard in one of these tours in order to draw attention to the Wiki page in widget feature which has been customized at the current wiki I am working on. However, I discovered that the special namespace cannot be specified via that template.

If anyone knows of a workaround that would allow either Special:WidgetDashboard or Special:Widgets to be featured on the tour then please share that here. It is not enough to use the  tags. (You can see here how that seems less than adequate for a tour designed for newcomers.) --najevi 22:37, October 17, 2009 (UTC)


 * Najevi, have you put a colon in front of the Special page link? (ex. ). I'm not sure if that will change anything but I fuzzily remember something like that fixing a template error I had a while back. I'm not sure about how one would go about embedding the widget directly in the table however. --DaNASCAT 18:08, October 18, 2009 (UTC)


 * I had not tried that but did so just now and  ... no joy!
 * In both cases a link appears for that Special page but the goal for these mini tours is that the page itself be transcluded by the Template:Wikia_tour. --najevi 18:26, October 18, 2009 (UTC)


 * I wonder if the Tab view extension might achieve what you want. If that does not fit your bill, I would suggest installing a Firefox add-on called Firebug. It might help you locate the embed html and/or raw source code that you could then put in the tour. --DaNASCAT 21:06, October 18, 2009 (UTC)