WZ

wz is a MediaWiki extension I wrote to enable tooltips (or mouse rollover).

I rely for that on the best tooltips available on the web, those of Walter Zorn.

Usage

Use the wz tag with an argument to tip that will be displayed over the encapsulated element:

<wz tip="That's ''that'' simple!">Roll over me!</wz>

Roll over me!

You can defer the tip to a tag using tagtotip instead of tip:

<wz tagtotip="tip">Roll over me!</wz>
<span id="tip">That's ''that'' simple!</span>

Roll over me! That's that simple!

This way you can make very complicated tooltips. In particular, you can wikify them! (including images, etc. For links, you'll need to wait that I implement the sticky option).

You can conveniently "tooltip" all sorts of things, such as images:

<wz tip="That's Walter on a quick 200km trip with his homebuilt
carbon lowracer. This guy is awesome.">[[Image:Kreuzot_ss.jpg‎]]</wz>

Installation

• Download the source tarball and uncompress in extension/wz/ directory.
• This includes Walter Zorn's java script files. You need to declare them inside the HTML body section, typically by adding a line as follows in the php skin declarations (in the skin/ directory):

echo Html::linkedScript( '/extensions/wz/js/wz_tooltip.js' );

• Add in your LocalSettings.php:

require_once("$IP/extensions/wz/wz.php");

Sources

• v°0.1 — on 13, June (2011), first release.
• v°0.2 — on 1 May (2014), includes options.

See also

• A blog post on the release of this extension
• Walter Zorn's original code.