Extension:wikEd/en
 Release status: stable |
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| Implementation | Page action |
| Description | Full-featured text editor, integrated into MediaWiki edit pages |
| Author(s) | Cacycle |
| Latest version | See current version |
| MediaWiki | 1.8+ |
| License | Public domain |
| Download | Code (do not copy for installation) Home (overview, installation, and recent changes) |
| Example | Gadget on English Wikipedia. See the wikEd home and wikEd help page |
wikEd is a full-featured MediaWiki-integrated text editor that adds enhanced text processing functions to edit pages. Currently it works only for Firefox and other Mozilla browsers, Safari, and Google Chrome. wikEd is a complete rich-text pseudo-WYSIWYG editor and comes with many MediaWiki-specific features.
- Features include
- Wikicode syntax highlighting
- Pasting, import, and conversion of formatted text, e.g., from Microsoft Word and web pages
- Regular expression search and replace
- Edit preview and show changes on the same page without reloading
- Full-screen editing mode
- Single-click fixing of common mistakes
- History for summary, search, and replace fields
- Jump to selected heading
- Type-ahead find
- Support for many languages
- Improved diff display
- Follow links and wiki-links (ctrl-click)
- Runs automatically on every MediaWiki installation when installed as a local Greasemonkey user script
For a more detailed feature list, see wikEd features.
Installation
There are four ways to install wikEd:
- As a Gadget
- As a Userscript (User:YourUsername/common.js)
- As a site script (MediaWiki:common.js)
- As a Greasemonkey script
For details, see wikEd and wikEd installation.
Parameters
wikEd is completely customizable, see wikEd customization.
Changes to LocalSettings.php
JavaScript for users has to be allowed by adding "$wgAllowUserJs = true;" to LocalSettings.php
Code
See the code (but please do not copy it, see wikEd installation).