Extension:UniversalEditButton
From MediaWiki.org
 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 | No license specified |
| Download | Download snapshot |
| Hooks used | BeforePageDisplay |
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] 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
This extension is being used on one or more of Wikimedia's wikis. It means that the extension is stable and works well enough to be used by such high traffic websites. A full list of the extensions installed on a particular wiki is produced by Special:Version on that wiki.
