Manual:Footer

Add links to the footer

MediaWiki version:

≥ 1.35

You can do it in LocalSettings.php . See the examples for:

Internal links

$wgHooks['SkinAddFooterLinks'][] = function ( Skin $skin, string $key, array &$footerlinks ) {
    if ( $key === 'places' ) {
        $footerlinks['test'] = Html::rawElement( 'a', [
			'href' => Title::newFromText(
				$skin->msg( 'test-page' )->inContentLanguage()->text()
			)->getFullURL()
		], $skin->msg( 'test-desc' )->escaped() );
    };
};

External links

$wgHooks['SkinAddFooterLinks'][] = function ( Skin $skin, string $key, array &$footerlinks ) {
    if ( $key === 'places' ) {
        $footerlinks['test'] = Html::rawElement( 'a',
            [
                'href' => 'https://www.example.org/wiki/Project:Imprint',
                'rel' => 'noreferrer noopener' // not required, but recommended for security reasons
            ],
        $skin->msg( 'test-desc' )->escaped() // test-desc is an i18n message of the text
        );
    };
};

In the above examples, test-page and test-desc are the keys for the system messages added via the code. Do not forget to add the desired text to the pages MediaWiki:Test-page and MediaWiki:Test-desc, respectively, after you added the code for the extra footer links to the LocalSettings.php file.

In JavaScript

Menus can be extended using

mw.util.addPortletLink('footer-links', 'link', 'link' )

Note for MediaWiki versions before 1.44.0

Prior to the 1.44.0 release, the mobile site by default hides any additional links via CSS. You can workaround this by adding the following rule to MediaWiki:Minerva.css.

ul.footer-places li {
  display:inline !important;
}

Add text to the footer

MediaWiki version:

≥ 1.35

You can also add custom text through LocalSettings.php . Here is an example to add wikitext to the footer:

$wgHooks['SkinAddFooterLinks'][] = function ( Skin $skin, string $key, array &$footerlinks ) {
    if ( $key === 'info' ) {
        $footerlinks['tagline'] = $skin->msg( 'footer-tagline' )->parse();
    }
};

This adds footer-tagline as a key for the system message to be displayed in the footer. After adding the code to LocalSettings.php, please edit the MediaWiki:Footer-tagline page to edit the newly-added footer text.

Customizing the built-in items

You can also customize the individual built-in items by modifying certain pages or parameters:

lastmod: edit MediaWiki:Lastmodifiedat. If $wgMaxCredits is enabled then edit MediaWiki:Lastmodifiedatby. You may also want to edit MediaWiki:othercontribs that shows other contributors. (6518)

credits

if $wgMaxCredits is not zero it will display page editors
i.e. set $wgMaxCredits = 10; or any other number

copyright: edit MediaWiki:Copyright. The parameter $1 on that page is replaced with a link to the details of copyright for your wiki. In LocalSettings.php $wgRightsText for the link text and set either $wgRightsPage or $wgRightsUrl with the location of a wiki page or external URL.

privacy: this is a link only. Edit MediaWiki:Privacy for the link text and MediaWiki:Privacypage for the wiki page to which to link.

about: this is a link only. Edit MediaWiki:Aboutsite for the link text and MediaWiki:Aboutpage for the wiki page to which to link.

disclaimer: this is a link only. Edit MediaWiki:Disclaimers for the link text and MediaWiki:Disclaimerpage for the wiki page to which to link.

tagline: not currently used in the footer. If you would like to add text to the footer, see #Add text to the footer.

To remove the privacy, about and/or disclaimer links entirely, replace the link text with a single dash ("-").

Images

See $wgFooterIcons .