Wiki/Report of Meeting 2022-11-24

Report of Meeting 2022-11-24

Present: Art Anger, Raul Miller, and Bob Therriault

1. We began by looking at an adjustment that Raul had made to the sidebar that allowed the the user to go from the prototype wiki to the corresponding page on the current wiki https://code2.jsoftware.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Sidebar. This is an addition to the link that sends us to the main or home page. We debated the name for this button and in the end decided to replace the link that takes us to the home page with one which will take us to the corresponding page. We did this with both wikis, so now the behaviour is to jump between corresponding pages, as this is the preferred behaviour. https://code2.jsoftware.com/wiki/Main_Page
2. Bob showed the J Code Search Bar https://code2.jsoftware.com/wiki/J_Code_Search which is html which are placed with absolute values to the top of the wiki. Bob was wondering if there could be a bot that would put this search bar on every page, so that every page would have a search bar, even if they did not have a navigation bar. Raul was able to create the same Search Bar, but put it above the page content in the position for Site Notice content https://code2.jsoftware.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Sitenotice. It took most of the rest of the session to get the CSS and the positioning correct. The advantage of doing the J Code Search bar this way is that it is not part of the content which means that new pages created do not have to add it in their creation process. We found that Bob doesn't have access to the CSS on the wiki, which may need to be rectified in the future. Bob also needed to find out if he could lock the navigation bars into place with absolute positioning if the J Code Search Bar is not providing that absolute reference position. (Bob was able to show that this is possible after the meeting). Raul felt we should think about this in the next week, to make sure that it did not have other consequences, such as affecting the space for site notices.

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