Extension:WikiEditor

The WikiEditor extension provides an improved interface (primarily a toolbar) for editing wikitext. It is the wikitext editing interface that Wikipedia started using in 2010 for desktop users, and so it is sometimes called the 2010 wikitext editor.

Installation
In some situations, WikiEditor may not show in your browser after the installation. Clearing your browser cache will solve the problem.

Note for IIS setup: By default, IIS doesn't understand .svg files. WikiEditor uses them to represents the icons. To fix this, you have to [ https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12328651/svg-is-not-working-on-iis-webserver-on-localhost add the MIME type].

Enabling/disabling the toolbar
No configuration is needed "out of the box". By default, when installed this extension will be available to all users, and logged-in users can disable it from their preferences via the " " option (under the "  " tab).

If you wish all users to have it, and be unable to disable it, add it to in your  :

If you are using a version before  and would want the toolbar to be default for users when they first join add this line to your LocalSettings.php:

Realtime Preview
Enable the Realtime Preview feature with the following:

This feature is as of August 2022 being tested on some wikis like this wiki.

Signature button
The button for adding user signatures (four tildes) is available on talk pages and in namespaces specified in .

History
The extension used to provide "Labs" features for "publication" and "preview" steps, but these were removed from REL1_31 onwards.