Wikipedia talk:Tools/Editing tools

Link suggester

Does such a tool exist? For example, I really have better things to do with my time than figure out if the bands on Sunbury Music Festival have articles yet. I know there is User:Nickj/Link Suggester but it would be cool if there was a standalone tool you could just paste an article name in, and then it would spit the results for you. pfctdayelise 01:53, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

InsertButtonsToToolBar() Installation problems

function InsertButtonsToToolBar() Didn't work. Works now. --Uncle Ed 16:46, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

I've extracted function addStrikeoutButton() from this. Where should I put it? --Uncle Ed 16:54, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

It does not work for me either. What is the exact URL path to monobook.js ? Do I need to do anything else besides cut and paste ? Thanks for any help. -- David Chung 00:53, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

• I was looking at this yesterday. There is an issue with the use of double quotes. If you look at the code line starting LeftTexttButton then just after the "div style" bit and before "text-align: left; " there is an unescaped double quote. If you put a slash before the double quote then this solves that problem - However, these are lots of other double quotes that also need escaping elsewhere in the code. The only double quotes that shouldn't be escaped are at the start and end of the line. When I fixed this the code did run. However, I still had a problem because altough it drew the buttons it also put a lot of other stuff on the page. Given this second problem I didn't update the source code and might try again tonight. MarkS 11:14, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

• • Fixed it. Ignore the previous attempt at a solution. If you take the code from the project page then you need to replace the double quotes around the style sections with an ampersand followed by quot; (Note: can't write it out exactly as needed because you will see the result - a double quote - rather than the code). If you do this at the start and end of the style section it should work.

• I have checked your monobook.js and the code is in the right place. You just aren't seeing anything because the code is crashing when it runs. If you use firefox and look at the javascript console it will give you an idea of where it actually fails. MarkS 11:14, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

I have moved the code from the page to a sub page of my ID. It can now be included within users monobook.js which should avoid the problems with quote marks. Simply follow the instructions on the article. MarkS 15:00, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

• Thanks very much MarkS for your help! I cut & pasted the whole "subst:js" command into my monobook.js and can see the buttons now. Most buttons work, except the "Insert table" button (which does not insert anything when clicked on). --David Chung 19:58, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

• • Fixed. MarkS 20:57, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

• • • Great, thanks again. --David Chung 00:33, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

adding a link to edit the very first section

Not sure how to or should I add a new one, so I post it here FYI. Recently on ja.wp user:cpro created a script which adds a tab besides the "edit this page" tab, and the tab has a link to "&action=edit&section=0" of the present page, thus enables you to edit the very first section of the page you're reading. I'm afraid if there already exists such a script here on en.wp... Anyway, the script is available at ja:user:cpro/monobook.js named "addTopSectionEditTab", where '先頭を編集' means 'edit the first [section]'. --marsian 11:29, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

There is such a script on en. "Edit top". --Gwern (contribs) 15:25, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, I found it (Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Edit Top). --marsian 05:43, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Mac tools

Is there a tool I can use on my Mac, or is this mostly Windows-specific? Mainly, I'd like to do something like AutoWiki Browser, so that I can go through and tag articles for the various projects I'm part of. —ScouterSig 20:21, 24 January 2007 (UTC)