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I add this to the left. See Monetizing MediaWiki – Hacking a Skin

1.15.1 ∞

You could copy-paste this whole section into MediaWiki:Sidebar.

It has two parts, with one allowing you to type anything you want, like notes which don’t appear in the sidebar, and another which has the actual items which will appear in the sidebar.

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https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Navigation_bar

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= How to edit your MediaWiki left sidebar =

* (optional) section name
** page name|display name

= My sidebar =
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* (optional) section name
** page name|display name
** a second page name|another display name

*
** a page|display

The old way ∞

This was from 2011-09-17 and earlier, version not recorded.

* sectionname

.. points to MediaWiki:sectionname, whose contents are the name which appears

** itemurl|itemname
   (1)     (2)

1. MediaWiki:itemurl, whose contents contain the link identity.

2. Same as sectionname, points to MediWiki:itemname, whose contents are the name which appears.