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. — Scouter Sig 20:21, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Me too, I would really like to see this on mac. --George Drummond 23:49, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

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To Microsoft Word

Just saving the page and opening in Word preserves all the Wiki Elements (edit links etc). Even when storing the print version, the edit links will be visible in word.

Best solution is viewing the print version and copy-pasting into Word. Works inly in IE - hidden elements will not be visible in Word. The Menu has to be rebuild, since it links to the Wiki.--Sebpaul (talk) 09:24, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Humanbot -> dead link to the script page

1. Navigate to the script page (http://r3m0t.geniushost.net/cron/human/wpedit.user.js)

sadly a dead link. --Royalsolo 14:47, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Link finder

I've written a tool that lets you search for articles to add links to. See User:Edward/Find link. Edward (talk) 13:09, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

XML and Java -> Wikipedia converter

I tried to convert XML and Java text to Wikipedia text using this tool ([1]) but was unsuccessful. I would remove it from the article. I don't think it works at all. --Cbdorsett (talk) 15:29, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

I tried it; it didn't work in IE, and in Safari the results weren't very good either. But don't panic! You can do:

<!-- my comment -->
<xmlroot>
 <myelement myattribute="Hello">World</myelement>
</xmlroot >

I hope that helps. Shinobu (talk) 17:58, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Addendum: See Syntax Highlight Extension for more information. Shinobu (talk) 18:00, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Instructions wrong for Microsoft Word visual basic

I expand the "simple" Microsoft visual basic instructions, which were, no big surprise, actually not so simple.

I obviously made some mistakes in the expanded instructions.

When I attempt to run this Word2wiki micro, I get an error: compile error: syntax error. Highlighting the attribute.

Is it because I saved it as a module?

How am I supposed to save this code?

Calendar (talk) 03:20, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

I'm currently Word-less, so to speak, but from your description I think I know what's going on, based on my VB experience. There are certain types of code lines that don't appear in a VB code window directly, as VB doesn't consider it Basic code. They are things like module names, helpstrings etc. If you paste these in a code window, you'll get a syntax error as the compiler doesn't know what to do with that. However, if you paste the text in a text file, give it the appropriate extension, and import it, then these lines should get interpreted for what they are. I've just looked at the code, and I think Attribute VB_Name = "Word2Wiki" is the culprit. Follow my suggestion, and it should work. The file extension should be .bas. Alternatively, omit that line and instead press F4, and set the Name property yourself. Shinobu (talk) 17:39, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

mediawiki edit toolbar

where can i download the toolbar? i cant seem to find it on the mediawiki site — Preceding unsigned comment added by Deo Favente (talk • contribs) 23:11, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

New features (Usability Initiative)

With usability initiative, custom editor tools are not available anymore. If there is a solution to that, it should be described in the article. huji—TALK 09:55, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

Any information about changing the new editing tools? nvm. It's here in case anybody else is wondering. Bennylin (talk) 11:38, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

Editing tool to change a list of 58 talk pages

The Toolserver URL below http://toolserver.org/~enwp10/bin/list2.fcgi?run=yes&projecta=Pittsburgh&importance=Unknown-Class&quality=Start-Class

provides a list of 1950 Pittsburgh Steelers season through 2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season, 58 articles, where I would like the existing talk page line:

{{WikiProject Pittsburgh|class=Start|auto=inherit|importance=}} to say {{WikiProject Pittsburgh|class=Start|auto=inherit|importance=low}} instead.

What editing tool can do that in an automated way? --DThomsen8 (talk) 00:03, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

OpenOffice.org Calc to MediaWiki

Is there any way to convert OpenOffice.org Calc spreadsheets into MediaWiki format? Most of the tools I've seen on Wikipedia are for OpenOffice.org Writer. Allen (talk) 01:40, 16 March 2012 (UTC)