Monetizing MediaWiki > AdSense >

See also:

• Hacking MediaWiki to add a sidebar Google AdSense Search

Make an Ad ∞

Go to https://www.google.com/adsense/start/ and make a 120x240 ad.

prep the advertising slot ∞

\nano  /your_wiki/skins/adsense/adsense_vertical.php

and paste

<div id="v-g-ads" class="portlet">
<h5>Google ads</h5>
<div class="pBody">
<!-- Your Google AdSense code here -->
</div>
</div>

edit your skin ∞

\nano  /your_wiki/skins/MonoBook.php

Search for this:

</div><!-- end of the left (by default at least) column -->

Above it, paste this:

<?php
// Google AdSense block:
if(!strstr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], "Special:") &&
!strstr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], "action=submit") &&
!strstr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], "action=edit") &&
!strstr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], "Template:")) {
include("adsense/adsense_vertical.php");
}
?>

Be warned, your MonoBook.php will be overwritten when you update MediaWiki, so back up this file. Or better yet, re-apply your changes in case they made legit updates to the skin.

Thanks to ∞

• Blender‘s old wiki’s skin

  • https://archive.blender.org/wiki/index.php/Meta/Blender_skin/ [ 1 ]

• https://web.archive.org/web/20100902013926/forum.dreamhosters.com/3rdparty/29149-MediaWiki-and-Google-AdSense.htm [ 2 ]

Footnotes

1. was wiki.blender.org/index.php/Meta/Blender_skin (not archived) [ ↩ ]
2. Before the forum was removed, that post would later become the mangled https://web.archive.org/web/20200216192958/https://discussion.dreamhost.com/t/mediawiki-and-google-adsense/28444[ ↩ ]