User:DWalden (WMF)/WikiEditor

Documentation for setting up and testing the WikiEditor extension, also known as the "2010 wikitext editor".

Installing
From your mediawiki repository
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You should be able to go to any page on your local wiki and open the source editor. You will see a new set of menu options at the top of the text input field.

If not, it might be that it is disabled. Go to, click the "Editing" tab and check the option that says "Enable the editing toolbar"

Things to consider when testing

 * Consider regressions:
 * Test that you can still successfully enter an external link to another website (could be anything like http://duckduckgo.com)
 * Test you can still enter an internal link (e.g. enter just the title of another page on the same wiki like )
 * If possible, compare the behaviour of the "Insert link" dialog now to an earlier version. I think you can only do this if you set it up locally.
 * I put instructions how to install it locally above. After you have installed it locally, to get the older version of the software, do:
 * Experiment with different ways of interacting with the dialog, such as pressing the enter key to submit.
 * I have found some inconsistency in the behaviour of the "Insert link" dialog when using it to add multiple links in the same session.
 * Try repeating adding a link several times in a row and see if the outcome is the same each time. (For an example of a bug like this see T297371)
 * Try closing the dialog and reopening it. It normally returns to the same state it was in when you closed it.
 * Try repeating adding a link several times in a row and see if the outcome is the same each time. (For an example of a bug like this see T297371)
 * Try closing the dialog and reopening it. It normally returns to the same state it was in when you closed it.

Components

 * Insert link dialog