gww>Pling at 22:08, 2 January 2009

2009-01-02T22:08:51Z

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=== Request for DismissableSiteNotice''Plus'' ===
; Type
: Unofficial update/customization for the installed [[Guild Wars Wiki:Requests for technical administration/DismissableSiteNotice|DismissableSiteNotice extension]]
; Installation notes
: The files for DismissableSiteNoticePlus are available here: http://BornToLaugh.de/DismissableSiteNoticePlus.zip
: To update the extension, just replace the <tt>DismissableSiteNotice.php</tt> with the existing file in the <tt>/extensions/DismissableSiteNotice</tt> folder (the <tt>.php5</tt> is just for compatibility with other servers and the <tt>.i18n.php</tt> is a copy of the original file, so they don't need to be replaced/uploaded)
; Reason for request
: This update to the original [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DismissableSiteNotice DismissableSiteNotice] allows unregistered users to dismiss the site notice and improves the way it hides the notice. In detail there will no longer be javascript used to not display the text, instead the site notice is not even generated on server-side, so it also should display faster.
; Possible pitfalls
: As this is an unofficial update to the extension, future updates of the original DismissableSiteNotice may include features that won't be included in this update. However due to the fact that the update is installed by simply replacing, there is no problem in reverting to the original versions later when there are real changes for example for compatibility with future MediaWiki versions.
: Also I still plan to take a look at future versions of the DismissableSiteNotice extension, to check whether an update of the Plus version would be necessary or not.

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gww>Pling at 22:08, 2 January 2009