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Is 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>
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 seem to have I originally encountered mysteriously disappeared with the . The main caveat being that the icon 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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So you want a rocket on your page to show how awesome your stuff is. Something like this: http://fontawesome.io/icon/rocket/
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>
If your wiki uses a theme like [[mw:Skin:Foreground|Foreground]] (FontAwesome 4.3) 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>
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-5x 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-sprocketssprocket" 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
But that did not seem effective.
Then there is another extension called [[mw:Extension:PhpTags_Widgets]]. But installing that caused a fatal error in my wiki that I didn't have time to debug. Another way to add a script is to modify That extension looks great (because it comes with stuff like [[MediaWikihttps:Common//vega.github.js]io/vega/ Vega], but I ran into [[#Problems]] with that and for other features too) and was recently updated to FontAwesome 4.5<source lang=javascriptref>/*To add <script src="https://usegerrit.fontawesomewikimedia.comorg/14c71d3de0.js"><r/script> we use load instead of the deprecated importScriptURI *#/mw.loader.load('q/project:mediawiki/use.fontawesome.comextensions/14c71d3de0.js');PhpTagsWidgets,n,z</sourceref> I'll check into all the recent details But installing that has a bunch of dependencies on other extensions by the '[httpssame 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://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader ResourceLoader]' mechanism, and write a new extension or update comments hereInteresting stuff; not the best way to get FontAwesome.
=== Problems ===
# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/font-awesome
# https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome
== Other Extensions ==
There is also an older 'bootstrap-mediawiki' extension which uses Bootstrap 3 and FontAwesome 4
https://github.com/borkweb/bootstrap-mediawiki
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[[Category:QualityBox]]
