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// import from User:PleaseStand/hide-vector-sidebar.js/* hide-vector-sidebar.js: Adds a button to toggle visibility of the Vector sidebar. Written by PleaseStand. Public domain; all copyright claims waived as described in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-self *//*To hide/show the sidebar:Firefox: alt-shift-aChrome: alt-a*/(function(mw,$){varsidebarSwitch;functionsidebarHide(){document.getElementById('mw-panel').style.visibility='hidden';document.getElementById('mw-head-base').style.marginLeft='0';document.getElementById('content').style.marginLeft='0';document.getElementById('left-navigation').style.marginLeft='0';document.getElementById('footer').style.marginLeft='0';if(sidebarSwitch){sidebarSwitch.parentNode.removeChild(sidebarSwitch);}sidebarSwitch=mw.util.addPortletLink('p-cactions','#','Show sidebar','ca-sidebar','Show the navigation links','a');$(sidebarSwitch).click(function(e){e.preventDefault();sidebarShow();});}functionsidebarShow(){document.getElementById('mw-panel').style.visibility='';document.getElementById('mw-head-base').style.marginLeft='';document.getElementById('content').style.marginLeft='';document.getElementById('left-navigation').style.marginLeft='';document.getElementById('footer').style.marginLeft='';if(sidebarSwitch){sidebarSwitch.parentNode.removeChild(sidebarSwitch);}sidebarSwitch=mw.util.addPortletLink('p-cactions','#','Hide sidebar','ca-sidebar','Hide the navigation links','a');$(sidebarSwitch).click(function(e){e.preventDefault();sidebarHide();});}// Only activate on Vector skinif(mw.config.get('skin')==='vector'){$.when($.ready,mw.loader.using('mediawiki.util')).then(function(){// Change this if you want to show the sidebar by defaultsidebarShow();});}}(mediaWiki,jQuery));