Hello,

a tipp: You can use wikEd with the Gadgets-Extensions (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Gadgets), so you don't need Greasemonkey.

Viele Grüße Jan

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] Im Auftrag von Jean Pierre Charalambos Gesendet: Donnerstag, 13. August 2009 04:57 An: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Betreff: Re: [Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki Hacks: Troubleshooting

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Taja Anandtaja.wiki@gmail.com wrote:

Hi all,

I'm an enthusiast in MediaWiki Development and I'm having some troubles starting off. I have been administering MediaWiki installation on my

website

for quite some time but for the past 4 days I'm struggling to get a hack. Please help me out.

I've read the material given in the Manual, How to Become a MediaWiki Hacker, how to Debug and all the other relevant pages related to development.

Till now, I've tried the following, but the wiki on my localhost functions as though no changes have taken place (I've not tried all this on my

website

yet) :

1. Applied the first hack given on

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Customizing_edit_toolbar [not even the

table

icon appears]

I'm also a newbie enthusiastic mediawikier, having exactly the same issue which I couldn't solve yet :) I found the following possible solutions:

1. low-level (didn't try it yet): http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ#How_do_I_add_more_buttons_on_the_ed it_page.3F 2. high level: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MarkS/Extra_edit_buttons 3. Simply edit common.js to customise the tool bar (didn't remember where I read it). I basically add code like this: http://www.skoffer.com/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Common.js&oldid=250 to the newly created page named Common.js which I created as admin (something called sysop -- or something like this --in mediawiki language). 4. I succesfully installed wikEd using Greasemonkey (a firefox add-on) which has nice editing tools. The good news is that It works for any wiki. The bad news is that it only works locally (i.e., for users that have enabled the wikEd script in their firefox configuration) which means it didn't solve my problem.

Hope it helps a bit. Hope to hear better ideas. Cheers,

Jean Pierre

2. Set the predicate (preg_match) to zero in Parser.php (689) [it still

parses it as a table] 3) removed all the content of index.php !! [it runs]

and a lot of things were tried out, but no success. However, wiki does respond when I switch off the MySql service or move a file (such as WebStart.php).

I've not had any progress due to this unexpectedly weird stuff going on. Please give a hint or a pointer in the right direction.

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