Extension:WikiEditor

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The WikiEditor extension provides an improved interface for editing wikitext.

It is the editing interface that Wikipedia currently uses.

It includes an extendable framework with a set of feature-based modules, each of which can be selectively enabled or disabled, aiming to improve the user experience of editing in different ways.

Configuration
Add the above code at the bottom of your localsettings>Special:MyLanguage/LocalSettings.php|LocalSettings.php.

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 it, you have to add the mime type

Toolbar customization
See toolbar-cust>Special:MyLanguage/Extension:WikiEditor/Toolbar customization|Toolbar customization.

Toolbar Module
A toolbar visible on editing pages which replaces the stock toolbar.

See the toolbar icons.

Sections

 * Toolbar

A toolbar is a series of groups, each with a series of tools, rendered in the writing direction of the content language, with visible dividers between groups.

Supported Tool Types
 * Button - an icon which can be clicked
 * Select - a drop-down list which can be selected from

A booklet is a series of named pages which can be viewed one at a time and navigated through using an index list widget.
 * Booklet

Supported Page Types
 * Table - a grid of columns and rows
 * Characters - a series of rectangular buttons containing text values

Actions
Each tool has an action which is executed when the tool is used.

The most commonly used action is encapsulate, which operates on the currently selected text, prepending text, appending text and in the case that no text was selected inserting text at the cursor.

The encapsulate action takes three parameters, pre, peri and post, which can either be raw text or message keys.

Labs Modules
Part of the WikiEditor extension were a number of alpha quality modules.

These alpha modules are now deprecated and are being removed.

The modules are: highlighter, toc, templates and template editor.

You should not be using them.