Wikia implemented the new navigation menus across all wikis on October 3, 2012. See:

• Help:Expanded wiki navigation.
• User blog:BertH/Layout and navigation updates coming October 3.

Some suggestions for improvement:

• http://wikinav.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Wiki-navigation

In the past (before October 3, 2012) the Cannabis Wiki used custom site navigation. See full-size screenshots linked below. It is better in some ways than the new expanded Wiki Navigation.

The best navigation menus, by far, were the nested menus in the left sidebar before the Oasis/Wikia skin got rid of the left sidebar. See example from June 26, 2010 here:

• http://web.archive.org/web/20100626090129/http://cannabis.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

The nested part does not activate in the archive page, but you can see that the arrows in the sidebar navigation menus point to nested menus.

See below for info on a variety of nested hover menus on various skins whose code might be adapted for use elsewhere.

Vector sidebar and nested site navigationEdit

Nested site navigation on the Vector skin. See mw:Extension:CSS MenuSidebar. See also: mw:Extension talk:CSS MenuSidebar#MediaWiki version 1.16.x for the 1.16.x version.

See nested hover menus in the sidebar on the Vector skin here on the ACC Wiki:

• Hover menus on ACC Wiki.
• http://ac.wikkii.net/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.css - See "MenuSidebar".
• http://ac.wikkii.net/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.js
• http://ac.wikkii.net/wiki/MediaWiki:MenuSidebar
• http://ac.wikkii.net/wiki/Special:Version - MenuSidebar extension is listed.

Monobook skinEdit

There are some well-implemented nested hover menus in the sidebar of the Nimbus skin here:

• http://www.halopedian.org/Main_Page
• http://www.halopedian.org/Special:Version - lists Nimbus skin.
• http://www.halopedian.org/MediaWiki:Common.js - see "JS Tab System" section.
• http://www.halopedian.org/MediaWiki:Common.css - see "JS Tab System" section.

Here is a treeview extension below for Monobook. Deeper levels in the sidebar menus are accessed by clicking the plus signs.

• http://semeb.com/dpldemo/index.php?title=Treeview_extension
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TreeAndMenu

See alsoEdit

See also:

• Category:Menu extensions - on MediaWiki.org site.
• Forum: Can sidebar site navigation be returned in a show/hide box? Discussion from 2010.