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Tech stuff that improves both government and democracy. More...		I write about the Web, our government, and the former's effect on the latter. More...		I give talks on helping organizations make the most of the Web, from a GenY perspective. More...

I just hacked out my first piece of custom MediaWiki interface: adding custom tabs next to the standard "Article," "Edit," "Discussion," etc. tabs. I was surprised that there was no existing documentation on how to do this. So I decided to write my own for the benefit of other amatuers like me. Here's how you can do it: 1) Before starting, you have to be working from a skin that is built on SkinTemplate.php. If you aren't sure, then you probably are. (I'm sure there are ways to add custom tabs to other skins, but I don't know how.) 2) Create a new custom namespace. This is what will come before the colon in the new page's address, eg "yourdomain.com/wiki/NewNamespace:Pagename". (NOTE, 5/15/2008: ...