Manual:Custom edit buttons





You have to differentiate between the old toolbar and the new one added by Extension:WikiEditor. To add new buttons you need to include them in your personal JavaScript (Important: In Localsettings.php add $wgAllowUserJs = true; ) or in the MediaWiki:Common.js or as a Gadget.

Extension:WikiEditor

 * See: Extension:WikiEditor/Toolbar customization for more on the wikiEditor

You may also use the insertVectorButtons script (by Krinkle) to simplify adding buttons to the wikiEditor.

can be used to check if a user is using the wikiEditor (true) or the old toolbar (false).

How to get icons for the buttons
Please do not hotlink images from Wikimedia Commons or Wikipedia! Upload them to your web host instead. You can upload them one by one, or optionally use a script to load a bunch of files.

Example: using a script on Unix, Linux, Mac
To use a script for downloading images from English Wikipedia:

Create a file with the URLs:

$ cat >urls http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c9/Button_strike.png http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/13/Button_enter.png http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/80/Button_upper_letter.png http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/70/Button_lower_letter.png http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/58/Button_small.png http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/34/Button_hide_comment.png http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/12/Button_gallery.png http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/60/Button_insert_table.png http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fd/Button_blockquote.png http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Button_reflink.png

Download images with wget

$ wget -N -i urls