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You may be looking for MediaWiki:Edittools.

External editors

A wikipedia-enhanced text editor can make editing much easier. There are extensions for several text editors. They provide many useful functions, e.g.:

  • Syntax highlighting;
  • Easy navigation between the article's sections. This makes editing big articles much easier, especially if the overall outline structure of an article needs to be improved. Especially take a look at Eclipse and Emacs;
  • Direct down- and uploading of articles without using the web browser.

For details, see Wikipedia:Text editor support.

Similar tools:

Firefox extension (Firefox version 1.5 only) which adds the Wikipedia formatting commands to context menu and toolbar.

See also mw:WYSIWYG editor

MediaWiki Edit Toolbar


MediaWiki toolbar includes different buttons that can help you in editing. This is the French version, with buttons for citations.

Wikipedia editing tools

Screenshot of wikEd, a full-featured in-browser text editor

wikEd

wikEd, a full-featured in-browser text editor that adds enhanced text processing functions to Wikipedia and other MediaWiki edit pages (currently Mozilla, Firefox, SeaMonkey, Safari, and Chrome only).

Features include:

  • Pasting formatted text, e.g. from MS-Word (including tables)
  • Converting the formatted text to wikicode
  • Wikicode syntax highlighting
  • Regular expression search and replace and find-as-you-type
  • Server-independent Show preview and Show changes
  • Fullscreen editing mode
  • Single-click fixing of common mistakes
  • History for summary, search, and replace fields

WikiEditPuffer

WikiEditPuffer: edit online - save locally
WikiEditPuffer is an add-on for Mozilla-Firefox making the editing of contributions safer by maintaining local copies of editors content automatically.

  • Store your contribution: every n seconds
  • Store your contribution: every m keystrokes
  • Forget about it, when everything works perfectly
  • Use it, when you need it (transmission error, blue screen, server fault)
  • Keep track of all your edits, locally and at your own

User:Zocky/Search Box, a simple search/replace box. Supports regular expressions.

secEdit

User:Supadawg/secedit.js, allows editing of article sections inline (without opening a separate page) - also supports previewing and showing changes inline.

xul4wikipedia

User:Plindenbaum/xul4wikipedia generates on the fly a Firefox addon used to insert your custom texts (templates...) in wikipedia.

MW (ubiquity script)

MW is an Firefox Ubiquity script. It uses the mediawiki API to suggest and insert an internal link.

Semi-auto edit bots

AutoWikiBrowser

AutoWikiBrowser - Makes repetitive, tedious edits such as spell checkings or category moves faster and easier

mwpush

Description mwpush.pl is a Perl script which takes a Wikified text file or input and submits it to a target MediaWiki page.

Pywikipediabot

Useful for creating bots, or for interactive repair of interwiki links.

Humanbot (currently not running)

Description

A semi-automatic bot that automatically corrects mistakes in Wikipedia pages. The bot requires Mozilla Firefox, Greasemonkey 0.5-beta+, and a special script. This only works with the (default) Monobook theme. See the bot's page for more information.

Instructions (incomplete)

  • If you don't have Mozilla Firefox, see the Firefox page on the Mozilla website.
  • If you don't have the Greasemonkey extension, see the Greasemonkey page on the Mozilla Update website. Remember to restart your browser after installing it.
  1. Navigate to the script page.
  2. On the menu bar, go to Tools >> Install User Script.
  3. Click the 'Ok' button in the "Install User Script" window to add it to Greasemonkey.
  4. On Wikipedia, a new menu will appear on the sidebar, called "auto-edit" with the options 'on', 'off', and 'home'. Click 'on' to activate the bot.
    • Note: Do not activate the bot with multiple tabs open!
    • Note: The rest of the instructions are missing. If you can add to this, please do so.

Usage

The bot will send you to the correct page, make the changes, and press the preview button. You just need to check that the changes are reasonable, and the edit will be made under your own username.

WagTools

WagTools - a Firefox extension containing a set of tools to speed up repetitive processes, similar to AutoWikiBrowser. (Currently under development - there's only one tool available at the time of writing, a project tagging tool, but the intention is to add more later).

DotNetWikiBot

DotNetWikiBot has an option to review and change each edit in Microsoft Word before saving it to live wiki. DotNetWikiBot is a client API on .NET, intended for building bots for MediaWiki sites.

Information display

Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups gives a popup box containing the first paragraph of an article when hovering over a link; it also allows quick access to common editing operations. If the wiki provides the NavPop gadget, it can be enabled in user preferences under the gadgets tab. Otherwise, installed by editing the user's [[User:Name/monobook.js]] file.

Templates

User:Zondor/Toolboxes provide a list of templates as tools for one to put in pages such as their user page.

Alternative preview

  • Pilaf's Live Preview is a script that allows very fast preview in the browser window during article editing, without loading a new page, using a JavaScript parser. It does not support templates and has some other limitations. Installed by editing your Special:Mypage/monobook.js file. It is also used by the wikEd editor tool.
  • User:Sverdrup/Wikipreview.html uses Pilaf's great Live Preview to make a downloadable stand-alone previewer for offline editing. (Download this link to save the file: wikipreview.html).
  • Alex Smotrov's QPreview adds an edit toolbar button that uses XMLHttpRequest to generate page preview without reloading the whole page. QPreview functionality has also been added to the wikEd editor tool.

wpvfdhide

wpvfdhide hides VfD discussions which are already closed on demand. This is useful both for finding unclosed entries in the logs and for finding things which weren't speedied in the current VfD day pages. The latest link to it is at User:R3m0t and it requires Firefox and Greasemonkey. r3m0t talk July 3, 2005 13:56 (UTC)

WikiCheck watchlist tool

WikiCheck is a small tool to make checking your watchlist easier. Docked to the left screen edge it shows a list of changes that occurred since the last time the list was checked. Clicking on a change will open the corresponding diff in a new browser window. Recently rewritten.

vfd_NavBar

vfd_NavBar is a modified version of the experimental navigation bars. This will hide closed discussions in the AFD & AFC pages, but not in the AFD sub pages (where there's only 1 discussion) and allows you to toggle them individually. There's no other requirements, just {{subst:User:Sanbeg/vfd_NavBar.js}} into your monobook.js -Steve Sanbeg 21:12, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikisyntax conversion utilities

From tables

From Microsoft Word

  • User:Cacycle/wikEd editor extension functionality, see above
  • Extension:Word2MediaWikiPlus: Converts most text, tables and pictures into wiki format.
  • Word template converter at University of British Columbia
  • Word2MediaWiki
  • Adding code to Microsoft visual basic editor
    Add the below source code (currently hidden in a collapsed table) to the visual basic editor in Word.

    To open the visual basic editor: (tools->macro->visual basic editor)

    Then (insert >> module)

    Copy and paste the below code.

    Save the code (File >>Save normal)

    Then close the visual basic editor.

    Converting the Word formatted text is simply done by running your new 'installed' macro (tools->macro->macros).

    See the notes[1] for more formatting options.
Code to add to Microsoft Visual basic editor
Attribute VB_Name = "Word2Wiki"
Dim newDoc As Document

Sub Word2Wiki()
    
    Set newDoc = New Word.Document
    ActiveDocument.Content.Copy
    newDoc.Content.Paste
    
    Application.ScreenUpdating = False
    
    ConvertH1
    ConvertH2
    ConvertH3
    
    ConvertItalic
    ConvertBold
    'ConvertUnderline
    
    'must come before lists otherwise it adds extra line breaks in their sequence and breaks it
    ConvertBreaks
    
    ConvertLists
    ConvertTables
    
    ' Copy to clipboard
    newDoc.Content.Copy
    newDoc.Close (False)
    
    Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub

Private Sub ConvertH1()
    Dim normalStyle As Style
    Set normalStyle = newDoc.Styles(wdStyleNormal)
    
    newDoc.Select
    
    With Selection.Find
    
        .ClearFormatting
        .Style = newDoc.Styles(wdStyleHeading1)
        .Text = ""
        
        .Format = True
        .MatchCase = False
        .MatchWholeWord = False
        .MatchWildcards = False
        .MatchSoundsLike = False
        .MatchAllWordForms = False
        
        .Forward = True
        .Wrap = wdFindContinue
        
        Do While .Execute
            With Selection
                If InStr(1, .Text, vbCr) Then
                    ' Just process the chunk before any newline characters
                    ' We'll pick-up the rest with the next search
                    .Collapse
                    .MoveEndUntil vbCr
                End If
                                       
                ' Don't bother to markup newline characters (prevents a loop, as well)
                If Not .Text = vbCr Then
                    .InsertBefore "= "
          .InsertAfter " ="
                End If
                
                .Style = normalStyle
            End With
        Loop
    End With
End Sub

Private Sub ConvertH2()
    Dim normalStyle As Style
    Set normalStyle = newDoc.Styles(wdStyleNormal)
    
    newDoc.Select
    
    With Selection.Find
    
        .ClearFormatting
        .Style = newDoc.Styles(wdStyleHeading2)
        .Text = ""
        
        .Format = True
        .MatchCase = False
        .MatchWholeWord = False
        .MatchWildcards = False
        .MatchSoundsLike = False
        .MatchAllWordForms = False
        
        .Forward = True
        .Wrap = wdFindContinue
        
        Do While .Execute
            With Selection
                If InStr(1, .Text, vbCr) Then
                    ' Just process the chunk before any newline characters
                    ' We'll pick-up the rest with the next search
                    .Collapse
                    .MoveEndUntil vbCr
                End If
                                       
                ' Don't bother to markup newline characters (prevents a loop, as well)
                If Not .Text = vbCr Then
                    .InsertBefore "== "
          .InsertAfter " =="
                End If
                
                .Style = normalStyle
            End With
        Loop
    End With
End Sub

Private Sub ConvertH3()
    Dim normalStyle As Style
    Set normalStyle = newDoc.Styles(wdStyleNormal)
    
    newDoc.Select
    
    With Selection.Find
    
        .ClearFormatting
        .Style = newDoc.Styles(wdStyleHeading3)
        .Text = ""
        
        .Format = True
        .MatchCase = False
        .MatchWholeWord = False
        .MatchWildcards = False
        .MatchSoundsLike = False
        .MatchAllWordForms = False
        
        .Forward = True
        .Wrap = wdFindContinue
        
        Do While .Execute
            With Selection
                If InStr(1, .Text, vbCr) Then
                    ' Just process the chunk before any newline characters
                    ' We'll pick-up the rest with the next search
                    .Collapse
                    .MoveEndUntil vbCr
                End If
                                       
                ' Don't bother to markup newline characters (prevents a loop, as well)
                If Not .Text = vbCr Then
                    .InsertBefore "=== "
                          .InsertAfter " ==="
                End If
                
                .Style = normalStyle
            End With
        Loop
    End With
End Sub

Private Sub ConvertBold()
    newDoc.Select
    
    With Selection.Find
    
        .ClearFormatting
        .Font.Bold = True
        .Text = ""
        
        .Format = True
        .MatchCase = False
        .MatchWholeWord = False
        .MatchWildcards = False
        .MatchSoundsLike = False
        .MatchAllWordForms = False
        
        .Forward = True
        .Wrap = wdFindContinue
        
        Do While .Execute
            With Selection
                If InStr(1, .Text, vbCr) Then
                    ' Just process the chunk before any newline characters
                    ' We'll pick-up the rest with the next search
                    .Collapse
                    .MoveEndUntil vbCr
                End If
                                       
                ' Don't bother to markup newline characters (prevents a loop, as well)
                If Not .Text = vbCr Then
                    .InsertBefore "'''"
                    .InsertAfter "'''"
                End If
                
                .Font.Bold = False
            End With
        Loop
    End With
End Sub

Private Sub ConvertItalic()
    newDoc.Select
    
    With Selection.Find
    
        .ClearFormatting
        .Font.Italic = True
        .Text = ""
        
        .Format = True
        .MatchCase = False
        .MatchWholeWord = False
        .MatchWildcards = False
        .MatchSoundsLike = False
        .MatchAllWordForms = False
        
        .Forward = True
        .Wrap = wdFindContinue
        
        Do While .Execute
            With Selection
                If InStr(1, .Text, vbCr) Then
                    ' Just process the chunk before any newline characters
                    ' We'll pick-up the rest with the next search
                    .Collapse
                    .MoveEndUntil vbCr
                End If
                                       
                ' Don't bother to markup newline characters (prevents a loop, as well)
                If Not .Text = vbCr Then
                    .InsertBefore "''"
                    .InsertAfter "''"
                End If
                
                .Font.Italic = False
            End With
        Loop
    End With
End Sub

Private Sub ConvertUnderline()
    newDoc.Select
    
    With Selection.Find
    
        .ClearFormatting
        .Font.Underline = True
        .Text = ""
        
        .Format = True
        .MatchCase = False
        .MatchWholeWord = False
        .MatchWildcards = False
        .MatchSoundsLike = False
        .MatchAllWordForms = False
        
        .Forward = True
        .Wrap = wdFindContinue
        
        Do While .Execute
            With Selection
                If InStr(1, .Text, vbCr) Then
                    ' Just process the chunk before any newline characters
                    ' We'll pick-up the rest with the next search
                    .Collapse
                    .MoveEndUntil vbCr
                End If
                                       
                ' Don't bother to markup newline characters (prevents a loop, as well)
                If Not .Text = vbCr Then
                    .InsertBefore "=== "
                    .InsertAfter " ==="
                End If
                
                .Font.Underline = False
            End With
        Loop
    End With
End Sub

Private Sub ConvertLists()
    Dim para As Paragraph
    For Each para In newDoc.ListParagraphs
        With para.Range
            If .ListFormat.ListType = wdListBullet Then
                .InsertBefore "*"
            Else
                .InsertBefore "#"
            End If
            
            .ListFormat.RemoveNumbers
        End With
    Next para
End Sub
Private Sub ConvertBreaks()
    Dim para As Paragraph
    For Each para In newDoc.Paragraphs
        If para.Range.ListFormat.List Is Nothing Then
            If para.Range.Words.Count > 1 Then
                para.Range.InsertParagraphBefore
            End If
       End If
    Next para
End Sub

Private Sub ConvertTables()
    Dim thisTable As Table
    Dim myCol As Word.Column
    Dim myRow As Word.Row
    Dim myCell As Word.Cell
    Dim myFrame As Word.Frame
    For Each thisTable In newDoc.Tables
        With thisTable
            For Each myRow In thisTable.Rows
                For Each myCell In myRow.Cells
                    With myCell.Range
                        .InsertBefore "|"
                    End With
                Next myCell
                myRow.Range.InsertBefore "|-" & vbCrLf
            Next myRow
            .Range.InsertBefore "{| border=""1""" & vbCrLf
            .Range.InsertAfter vbCrLf & "|}"
            .ConvertToText Separator:=wdSeparateByParagraphs
        End With
    Next thisTable
    For Each myFrame In newDoc.Frames
        myFrame.Delete
    Next myFrame
End Sub

On the other hand, transferring mediawiki to Word is easy, just save the desired webpage and then open the page in Microsoft Word.

From HTML

From OpenOffice

From LaTeX

  • LaTeX2wiki converts sections, math, and references using a web form.

From source codes

  • Wikipedia supports syntax highlighting. For information on how to use it, and the languages supported, see Syntax Highlight Extension.

Misc. Editing tools

RecentChanges tools

Spell Checkers

  • [2] to interwiki articles in different languages which ought to have a link.

Disambiguation fixer

Disambiguation fixer will be a program to fix the links to Disambiguation pages. (See Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links)

Go-to-edit-page contextual menu item

  • This script for a Firefox extension allows one to go directly to the edit page of a right-clicked wiki page link (control-clicked on a Macintosh one-button mouse).

Timeline creation tool

For a tool to create nice graphical timelines, see meta:Wikipedia Project Time Charts and the Easy Timeline Homepage. (by meta:Erik Zachte)

AFD tools

Add the following to your monobook.js file 

function hidevfd(){
    var divs = document.getElementsByTagName("div");
    for(var x = 0; x < divs.length; ++x)
        if(divs[x].className.indexOf("vfd") != -1)
            divs[x].style.display = "none";
    document.getElementById('footer').style.display = 'none';
}

function showvfd(){
    var divs = document.getElementsByTagName("div");
    for(var x = 0; x < divs.length; ++x)
        if(divs[x].className.indexOf("vfd") != -1)
            divs[x].style.display = "";
    document.getElementById('footer').style.display = '';
}

function addlilink(tabs, url, name){
    var na = document.createElement('a');
    na.href = url;
    na.appendChild(document.createTextNode(name));
    var li = document.createElement('li');
    li.appendChild(na);
    tabs.appendChild(li);
    return li;
}

function vfdlinks(){
    var tabs = document.getElementById('p-cactions').getElementsByTagName('ul')[0];
    if(document.title.indexOf("Wikipedia:Articles for deletion") == 0){
        addlilink(tabs, 'javascript:hidevfd()', 'Hide');
        addlilink(tabs, 'javascript:showvfd()', 'Show');
    }
}

if (window.addEventListener) window.addEventListener("load",vfdlinks,false);
else if (window.attachEvent) window.attachEvent("onload",vfdlinks);
This should be improved by saving a 7-day cookie as to the hidden or shown status of each VFD --jnothman talk 02:01, 2 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Afd helper

A script to speed up voting on AFDs. See afd helper. Feedback needed.

WikiDiscussion Manager

This is a tool for posting your opinion on discussions on wikipedia. Currently only AfD is supported, more are coming. WDM. This is a console app using .NET and C++.

Regex: change heading levels

The following may seem trivial for Unix-experienced people, but a collection of ready to use regular expressions can help people who don't know anything or much about regular expressions. For these people: You can use regular expressions in many editors to perform complex editing tasks.

This will give the headings more (or less) equal signs ("="). I can only provide a version which is verified to work in Eclipse, but it will work in many text editors which feature Unix-style regular expressions.

Please change the expressions only if you are very, very sure that it will work correctly, say you have tested that it works.

Verified in Eclipse

Search-string:
^=(=*?)([^=]+?)(=*?)=\s*$
For more equal signs replace with:
==$1$2$3==
For less equal signs replace with:
$1$2$3
To balance right equals signs to left:
=$1$2$1=

Hints for text editors not mentioned

In other editors the replace strings will have to be different:

For more equal signs replace with: 

==\1\2\3==

For less equal signs replace with: 

\1\2\3

Footnote renumbering tool

If you have a page with many footnotes ({{Fn|...}} and {{Fnb|...}}), and they're all in the wrong order, this script could be useful. Written in Python, tested on a Linux system with Python 2.4.

User:Skagedal/Footnote renumbering tool

Extra edit page buttons

For extra edit page buttons, put the following code in your monobook.js, replacing "monobook" with the name of your skin, in all lowercase (using "standard" for Classic skin). 

{{subst:js|User:MarkS/extraeditbuttons.js}}

The buttons include: left aligned text, sub-script, super-script, insert table, insert quoted text.

More details can be found at User:MarkS/Extra_edit_buttons.

Strikeout

The following simply adds a strikeout button to your editing tools: 

function addStrikeoutButton() {

    editingTools = document.getElementById('toolbar');

    if (editingTools != null)  {

        StrikeTextButton = "  <a href=\"javascript:insertTags('<s>','</s>','Insert text here');\"><img 
src=\"/media/wikipedia/en/c/c9/Button_strike.png\" alt=\"Strike\" title=\"Strike-through text\"></a>";
 
        editingTools.innerHTML = editingTools.innerHTML + StrikeTextButton;
    }
}

window.onload = addStrikeoutButton;

Units of measure formatting and conversion tool and date formatting tool

User:MJCdetroit/monobook.js is a monobook tool that allows many common units to be correctly formatted (e.g. km² and not sq km) and converted between metric and imperial/U.S. customary systems with one click on a 'units' tab in edit mode.

Dates can be delinked and common errors associated with can be corrected with one click on a 'dates' tab in edit mode.

Units and dates can be combined by clicking the 'combined' tab in the edit mode.

To avoid false positives, editors can/should review the changes offered and accept or reject the changes offered and/or do more editing before pressing 'Save'. Simply add importScript("User:MJCdetroit/monobook.js"); to your own monobook. Follow the instructions in your monobook to clear the cache (i.e. press Ctrl-Shift-R in Firefox, or Ctrl-F5 in IE) before it will work. —MJCdetroit (yak) 20:32, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Welcome

// A small piece of JS writen by [[User:MatthewFenton]], This is my first piece of JS.
function welcome() {
  if (document.title.indexOf('Editing User talk:') == 0) {
    document.editform.wpTextbox1.value = document.editform.wpTextbox1.value + '==' + 'Welcome' + '==\n' + '{{subst:User:' + 'MatthewFenton/Welcome}}\n~~' + '~~';
    document.editform.wpSummary.value = 'Welcome a user to Wikipedia using JS WW';
  }
}
function welcome_tab() {
  add_link('javascript:welcome()', 'Welcome');
}

if (document.title.indexOf('Editing User talk:') == 0) {
  addOnloadHook(welcome_tab);
}

The code adds a tab when you are on user talk pages, you can then click it to add a welcome template and then save. A little time saver for me i thought I would share. Matthew Fenton (contribs) 16:25, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image tagging tools

Script for quickly tagging images as lacking source, licensing, or fair use rationale. Also simplifies nominating images for deletion:

User talk:Howcheng/quickimgdelete.js

Commonist - upload client for Wikimedia Commons

A simple upload client for wikimedia commons and a number of other MediaWiki sites. Written in Java and BeanShell. [3]

Labelled Image Editor

Zondor's Labelled Image Editor is a Java tool that creates and edits labelled links for an image. Useful for creating clickable maps like Template:United States Labelled Map. http://mujibab.googlepages.com/labelledimageeditor

CSDHelper

A Greasemonkey script to add a menu with common WP:CSD criteria next in the form that appears when deleting articles. It saves time and provides more meaningful deletion reasons in the logs. Can be included directly into monobook.js with basic modification. It is available at User:Chairboy/csdhelper.greasemonkey.js. Wikipedia administrator access required.

AFD Organizer

Main page: User:Jayden54/AFD Organizer

An application used in AFD discussions. Loads a list of all the recent AFD's, and then pre-loads several useful pages when opening an AFD, saving valuable time and energy.

Auto-replace for romanized Sanskrit text input

User:Visarga/monobook.js is a script that uses an internal Sanskrit dictionary to automatically replace romanized words typed without diacritics with their proper form. Typing Sakti will get you Śakti. A second function of this script is to allow the manual input of diacritics like the upper line, below dot or cedilla. Type : a-- and get ā. The dictionary might contain mistakes. The script was created for personal use so it has not been evaluated yet. Visarga (talk) 09:15, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Notes

  1. ^ Note: You may want to alter this Microsoft Word visual basic editor code so that Word H1 tags become Wiki H2 tags, H2->H3, and so on. H1 is widely considered the title of a web page, whereas H1 is widely considered just the top-level heading in Word.

    Note: this macro also provides a workaround converting linebreaks from word to paragraphs in wiki - line breaks in word are ignored in wiki so everything runs together in one paragraph in the older version of this code. Also, the code no longer makes any changes to the source document. Changes are made on a document in memory and put on the clipboard for pasting into the wiki text area.

See also

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