MediaWiki Cookbook/Using FontAwesome Icons

Font Awesome So you want a rocket on your page to show how awesome your stuff is. Something like this: http://fontawesome.io/icon/rocket/ If your wiki supports Font Awesome, then it's as easy as <i class="fa fa-pull-left fa-5x fa-rocket" aria-hidden="true"></i> That is how to show a Font Awesome icon, pulled to the left, 5x bigger than normal, and explicitly telling screen readers to ignore the item as decorative. Bootstrap If your wiki uses a bootstrap compatible theme like Foreground (FontAwesome 4.3) or Chameleon, then you can also mix-in layouts like this (won't work with Vector): Bootstrap Example One of three columns Two of three columns Three of three columns Coffee I love coffee!!! cloud Cloud deployment means instantly available and scalable. We can also do on-premise / local installations to meet your custom requirements. Blocks All the pieces are put together for you. NO assembly required! We specialize in Websites that are simple to use Collaboration / Data / Knowledge / Publishing / Docs systems Web Applications Development Operations How To The best way I've found is to modify MediaWiki:Common.js /*To add script tags to the page we use load instead of the deprecated importScriptURI */ /* You'll need to visit the fontawesome site to get a KEY to use */ mw.loader.load('//use.fontawesome.com/aldfjsdlkfjdlskf0.js'); Note that the deprecated $wgUseTidy can interfere with FontAwesome by removing the empty tags. Recipe Sign up for a unique embed code at the fontawesome website. Add the script source to your wiki by editing the MediaWiki:Common.js file where you add a call to 'load' the external script Insert the <i> tags where ever you want. Note that there are various sizes pre-defined as fa-1 (smallest) to fa-6 (largest) More Check http://fontawesome.io/examples/ http://fontawesome.io/icons/ The icons (Note there is a new kickstarter for a Pro product https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/232193852/font-awesome-5) https://cdn.fontawesome.com/help#qa-icons-code https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/font-awesome https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome Disclaimer At the time of writing, this site doesn't support FontAwesome icons, nor Bootstrap layouts. But now that the sample code is in place, we'll try the recipe.