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Is If your wiki supports Font Awesome, then it's as easy as <nowiki><i class="fa fa-pull-left fa-5x fa-rocket" aria-hidden="true"></i></nowiki> That is how to show a '''Font Awesome''' icon, pulled to the left, 5x bigger than normal, and explicitly telling screen readers to ignore the item as decorative.<i class="fa fa-pull-left fa-5x fa-rocket" aria-hidden="true"></i> If your wiki uses a theme like [[mw:Skin:Foreground|Foreground]] (FontAwesome 4. Which looks 3) or [[Chameleon]] that is bootstrap compatible, then you can also mix-in layouts like this(won't work with Vector): == Bootstrap Example ==<div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-4"> One of three columns </div> <div class="col-sm-4"> Two of three columns </div> <div class="col-sm-4"> Three of three columns </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-4"> <i class="fa fa-pull-left fa-5x fa-coffee" aria-hidden="true"></i> </div> <div class="col-sm-4"> Coffee </div> <div class="col-sm-4"> I love coffee!!! </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-4"> <i class="fa fa-pull-left fa-5x fa-cloud" aria-hidden="true"></i> </div> <div class="col-sm-4"> cloud </div> <div class="col-sm-4"> Cloud deployment means instantly available and scalable. We can also do on-premise / local installations to meet your custom requirements. </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-4"> <i class="fa fa-pull-left fa-5x fa-cubes" aria-hidden="true"></i> </div> <div class="col-sm-4"> Blocks </div> <div class="col-sm-4"> All the pieces are put together for you. NO assembly required! </div> </div></div> We specialize in<div><i class="fa fa-pull-left fa-5x fa-wordpress" aria-hidden="true"></i>Websites that are simple to use</div><div><i class="fa fa-pull-left fa-rocket5x fa-wikipedia-w" aria-hidden="true"></i>Collaboration / Data / Knowledge / Publishing / Docs systems</div><div><i class="fa fa-pull-left fa-5x fa-drupal" aria-hidden="true"></i>Web Applications</div><div><i class="fa fa-pull-left fa-5x fa-sprocket" aria-hidden="true"></i>Development Operations</div>  == How To ==Adding Font Awesome used to be an extension that you could install<ref>Extension:FontAwesome has been stagnant since 2014 and the developer has been changing around URLs with the current pay link saying it's "out of stock"!? Really, you ran out of source code?</ref>. However, the source is no longer available, except as a GPL-violating purchase with no source; and the link doesn't even work.  The best way I've found is to modify [[MediaWiki:Common.js]], but I ran into [[#Problems]] with that too.<source lang=javascript>/*To add script tags to the page we use load instead of the deprecated importScriptURI *//* You'll need to visit the fontawesome site to get a KEY to use */mw.loader.load('//use.fontawesome.com/aldfjsdlkfjdlskf0.js');</source> I'll check into all the recent details of the '[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader ResourceLoader]' mechanism, and write a new extension or update comments here. Some would say that you can shim into [https://doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/master/php/classOutputPage.html OutputPage] by calling a hook in your LocalSettings.php <source lang=php>$wgHooks['BeforePageDisplay'][] ='onBeforePageDisplay'; function onBeforePageDisplay( OutputPage &$out, Skin &$skin ){ $script = '<script type="text/javascript" src="https://use.fontawesome.com/14c71d3de0.js"></script>'; $out->addHeadItem("wowhead script", $script); return true;};</source> But that did not seem effective. Then there is another extension called [[mw:Extension:PhpTags_Widgets]]. That extension looks great (because it comes with stuff like [https://vega.github.io/vega/ Vega], and for other features too) and was recently updated to FontAwesome 4.5<ref>https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/project:mediawiki/extensions/PhpTagsWidgets,n,z</ref> But installing that has a bunch of dependencies on other extensions by the same author; which are marked experimental; and which go deep into murky waters that are not remotely connected to simply getting FontAwesome in your wiki. In short: Interesting stuff; not the best way to get FontAwesome.

But there is a dependency and some There may be bugs that have to be tracked down with regard to using it on a wiki site. It turns out that Tidy was interfering with FontAwesome by removing the empty tags.# <strike>The problems I originally encountered mysteriously disappeared. The main caveat being that FA does not preview. It only shows up on 'Save'.</strike># <strike>Font Awesome only seems to work if there is an actual image on the page. For example, this is an edit icon from a normal svg file. <nowiki>[[Image:Edit icon.svg|30px]]</nowiki>. Remove that and your Font Awesome icon will disappear. Note: the image file doesn't even have to exist, it's just that the image processing code is not called unless there is a <nowiki>[[File:]]</nowiki> tag in the wikitext.</strike># <strike>And FA doesn't work if I close the tag properly. </strike># <strike>The '''fa''' element is duplicated throughout the rest of the page since it wasn't closed. </strike> 

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