Extension:QuickLink

Adding wikilinks to an article is generally easy. But what happens when you don't know the exact capitalization, or wording of an article name? This plugin adds a new button to the edit tool bar that when clicked, adds an ajax search bar to find links. The search shows the existing pages in your wiki, and selecting a result inserts a link to the wiki page in the current position of the pointer in the edit box. This features provide a very quick and efficient way of inserting internal links.

A Search can be started by pressing. Then search results can be selected with the arrow keys and.

Search results are updated whenever the search box is modified.

Usage
To perform a search follow these instructions:


 * 1) Go to the search box by:
 * 2) * clicking in the search box
 * 3) * pressing
 * 4) * entering the internal link sequence '[['
 * 5) Type a string contained in the title of the page you want to link. It doesn't need to be the first word in the title.
 * 6) When the results are shown:
 * 7) * click one of them
 * 8) * use the arrows and press

Installation

 * 1) Download the latest version from http://subtrama.net/quicklink/.
 * 2) * Note you need to overwrite the .js file with this one: Extension talk:QuickLink/QuickLink.js. This is necessary for some browsers (e.g. IE & FF).
 * 3) Extract the files and put them in  .  Note: $IP stands for the root directory of your MediaWiki installation, the same directory that holds LocalSettings.php.
 * 4) Add the line   to your LocalSettings.php

Known issues
Key based select is not supported for IE and Opera in version 0.6. Will be fixed in the next release.

See |Discussion page for some interessenting comments.

Changelog

 * Version 0.6
 * Search results can be selected with the arrows
 * Pressing enter now selects the highlighted result
 * New theme
 * Version 0.5
 * Search box in the toolbar
 * Search triggered with CTRL+Enter and writing the '[[' sequence in the textarea

Credits
The code is based in the extension written by Adam Meyer,  Link Suggest