Tikipedia

Important points about the 3.0 version

• No more special wiki plugins.

Because Tiki's default features have steadily improved, the special wikiplugins that came with this theme in earlier versions are no longer supported or compatible. Sites that have been using them will have to use standard Tiki features instead. I'm sorry for any trouble this may cause.

• Tiki 1.9 and 2.0 Tikipedia template files aren't compatible with Tiki 3, so these should be removed from the templates/styles/tikipedia directory, and then the new 3.0-version files put in.
• All of the new features of Tiki 3 are supported.
• See http://doc.tikiwiki.org/tiki-index.php?page=Upgrade+2.x+to+3.x for more information on upgrading Tiki sites.

 
Old content follows: Tikipedia is a new theme based on Mediawiki's Monobook style also used at Wikipedia.org. The Tikipedia theme for Tiki CMS was done to illustrate the flexibility of Tiki's design capabilities and just because the Monobook style is very cool.

Unique wiki page features

Monobook, the Mediawiki default theme, and the Mediawiki page layout in general have some interesting characteristics. For one thing the page content area itself is pretty bare with function links and so on moved to peripheral areas.

To replicate this in the Tikipedia theme some of Tiki's wiki page controls have been moved to tabs above the content area and some to a Mediawiki-style toolbox styled like a module in the left-side column. This is where the links for 3-D browser, print, save, monitor, backlinks, language, and so on are located. Also the page author information is moved from the wiki page area itself to a modified bottom bar that is loaded only on wiki pages.

Other changes from the Tiki default

Rather than having the usual side-column log-in module, this theme places a link to the log-in screen at the top right of the page in keeping with the MediaWiki layout. In order not to interfere with the normal log-in module display when other themes are chosen, Tikipedia uses CSS to prevent the log-in box from displaying in the side column.

Page-top tabs are also used on image gallery file gallery directory and tracker pages. In some cases the templates needed a small edit to move the page-bar above the pagetitle, but most of the details were taken care of in the CSS file.

Bundled plugins

(No longer the case, in the 3.0 version.) This theme includes several plugins to emulate the look and functionality of the Monobook theme at Mediawiki sites but that can be used with other themes. These include: {THUMBDIV(align=>right width=>90px imgid=>1 title=>earth alt=>earth thumbwidth=>80 thumbheight=>60)}This is an example of the THUMBDIV plugin.{THUMBDIV}

• The MAKETOCBOX plugin used above is a styled {maketoc} tag that has a "Contents" title can be floated left or right and displays/hides the links similar to the Wikipedia function.
• The THUMBDIV image thumbnail plugin also shown on this page. This div can contain any wikitext with links or whatever and displays a thumbnail of an image in a Tiki gallery which links to the page of the full-size image.
• The TWOCOLORTITLEBOX? used at the top of this page for the "Welcome to Tikipedia!" message was specifically made for the Mediawiki emulation but may have some other uses. The plugin is currently hardcoded to produce the font size; the title is divided into two spans each of which can be given a color as a parameter.

Structural details

See Tikipedia_development for some notes on the process.

Customizing

Please see Customizing_Tikipedia for information on customizing/personalizing this theme.

Download

The theme is available for downloading - Tiki 3 version, Tiki 2 version.