Extension:UniversalEditButton
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This extension is obsolete! It has been replaced by core functionality in the MediaWiki software (which was added in version 1.14.0). See $wgUniversalEditButton. |
 Release status: stable |
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| Implementation | Page action | ||
| Description | Adds support for the UniversalEditButton Firefox extension | ||
| Author(s) | Brion Vibber | ||
| MediaWiki | 1.12+ | ||
| License | GPL-2+ | ||
| Download | Download snapshot Subversion [Help] |
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The Universal Edit Button is a green pencil icon in the address bar that indicates a web page is editable. It is similar to the orange "broadcast" RSS icon 
that indicates there is an RSS feed available.
[edit] Installing
Download via SVN. Then add the following lines to your LocalSettings.php file.
require_once( "$IP/extensions/UniversalEditButton/UniversalEditButton.php" );
Get the Firefox extension :: http://universaleditbutton.org/Universal_Edit_Button
[edit] What is it?
It allows people to more quickly recognise when a site may be edited. It may serve as an incentive to encourage companies and site developers to add publicly-editable components to their sites. The universal edit button is made visible to people browsing the web by a two step process:
- Website announces the availability of an edit page using the html <link> tag.
- Web browsers notice this tag and present an edit button in their location field
