Several things:
1) The copyright message is moved up, between the main edit area and the summary/checkboxes/buttons. This is to ensure that it is visible; presently on a smallish screen it's possible to make thousands of edits without ever seeing the notice.
This should also encourage site admins to keep the message short and legible.
2) A new message, MediaWiki:Edittools, is created which can hold those extended character insertion boxes that some wikis use (currently hacked into the copyright message). This message is now also displayed on the Special:Upload form, so it can be used when composing file descriptions.
This displays below the buttons, so it's out of the way but not too far away.
3) The list of used templates is moved to the bottom, so it can grow as long as it gets without pushing other things down.
This is online to try out on the test wiki at:
http://test.leuksman.com/edit/Main_Page http://test.leuksman.com/view/Special:Upload (Log in to see the upload form.)
Avar has expressed objection to putting the notice above the buttons, but I think it really *needs* to be if we want to pretend it means anything. Any final comments, and preparation for the change (splitting bits out from the copyright message) would be good to do; I plan to commit this change in the next day or two.
cf. http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4100
Note: the charinsert stuff doesn't currently seem to work in Safari. Have to see about fixing that...
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Brion Vibber wrote:
Several things:
- The copyright message is moved up, between the main edit area and the
summary/checkboxes/buttons. This is to ensure that it is visible; presently on a smallish screen it's possible to make thousands of edits without ever seeing the notice.
This should also encourage site admins to keep the message short and legible.
[snip]
I've taken this change live now.
I went ahead and moved the charinsert bits on en.wikipedia; make sure other wikis using such things do similar. :)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
- A new message, MediaWiki:Edittools, is created which can hold those extended
character insertion boxes that some wikis use (currently hacked into the copyright message).
Can you add another message for character insertion boxes and javascript tools JUST BELOW textarea.
Now it's MediaWiki:Summary hack in Russian wiki. See, for example, http://ru.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Python&action=edit
-- m:user:ajvol
Александр Сигачёв wrote:
- A new message, MediaWiki:Edittools, is created which can hold those extended
character insertion boxes that some wikis use (currently hacked into the copyright message).
Can you add another message for character insertion boxes and javascript tools JUST BELOW textarea.
If you _really_ want it just below the textarea, you can slip it into the copyright warning message. However that really ought to be short and sweet; nonessential tools & gadgets should remain out of the way.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Brion Vibber wrote:
Александр Сигачёв wrote:
- A new message, MediaWiki:Edittools, is created which can hold those extended
character insertion boxes that some wikis use (currently hacked into the copyright message).
Can you add another message for character insertion boxes and javascript tools JUST BELOW textarea.
If you _really_ want it just below the textarea, you can slip it into the copyright warning message. However that really ought to be short and sweet; nonessential tools & gadgets should remain out of the way.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Maybe a scroll-down menu thing could be implemented, and its contents based on a MediaWiki: page? So a box says "Insert", and you click the down arrow next to it, and it lists various characters or other codes to insert. This would allow endless possibilities for expansion (especially if the menu allowed submenus, sort of like browser bookmark folders; then there could be a submenu for math/latex codes, templates, etc).
brian0918
This sounds like what I've implemented in Javascript on the English Wiktionary some time ago if I read correctly.
Take a look at:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Monobook.js
and
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Edittools
The drawbacks are: * You have to edit both files and keep them synchronized when making additions. * There is no way to add a user preference for which menu item is preferred and there is no way I've found to set and get a cookie from this code to remember which menu item was used previous.
Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail)
On 12/3/05, Brian brian0918@gmail.com wrote:
Brion Vibber wrote:
Александр Сигачёв wrote:
- A new message, MediaWiki:Edittools, is created which can hold those extended
character insertion boxes that some wikis use (currently hacked into the copyright message).
Can you add another message for character insertion boxes and javascript tools JUST BELOW textarea.
If you _really_ want it just below the textarea, you can slip it into the copyright warning message. However that really ought to be short and sweet; nonessential tools & gadgets should remain out of the way.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Maybe a scroll-down menu thing could be implemented, and its contents based on a MediaWiki: page? So a box says "Insert", and you click the down arrow next to it, and it lists various characters or other codes to insert. This would allow endless possibilities for expansion (especially if the menu allowed submenus, sort of like browser bookmark folders; then there could be a submenu for math/latex codes, templates, etc).
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