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How to add new tools to your mediawiki toolbar

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Sun, 03/09/2008 - 03:41 — Lonny

So you want to extend the toolbar for your mediawiki editors? I know I do. Here is how I did it:

First copy and paste the code at http://www.appropedia.org/MediaWiki:Common.js
Then edit it to match your site and needs. Here is one snippet, with descriptions, in italics, of each of the lines.

mwCustomEditButtons[mwCustomEditButtons.length EB* = { says to MW, "Hey this is gonna be a toolbar button."

  "imageFile": "http://www.appropedia.org/images/c/c8/Button_redirect.png",   this is the location of your button image - just upload as normal then find the address by clicking through.
  "speedTip": "Insert hidden Comment", This is what the tool says when the editor hovers.
  "tagOpen": "This is the first part of what gets inserted when a user clicks the tool.
  "tagClose": " -->", This is the last part of what gets inserted when a user clicks the tool.
  "sampleText": "Comment"};  This is the middle part of what gets inserted when a user clicks the tool without any text highlighted.

Note: If an editor has text highlighted when they click the tool, the tagOpen will go before and the tagClose will go after, and no sampleText will be inserted.

  • EB stands for endbracket. I was having problems with auto-formatting of brackets. I apologize for the cheezy hack.

Enjoy.

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