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This extension is obsolete!
It has been replaced by core functionality in the MediaWiki software (which was added in version 1.14.0).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.

         

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UniversalEditButton

Release status: stable

Implementation  Page action
Description Adds support for the UniversalEditButton Firefox extension
Author(s)  Brion Vibber
MediaWiki  1.12+
License GPL-2+
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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 Feed-icon.svg 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:

  1. Website announces the availability of an edit page using the html <link> tag.
  2. 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.