[Mediawiki-l] How to add a Character Box

[Christopher Merwin]

Many thanks for everyone’s quick replies!  I’ve managed to get it working
after some help from more than a few people and some directions.

I followed the directions exactly as listed on: 

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CharInsert

First download the "CharInsert.php" and place it into a new folder
"CharInsert" in the Extensions sub-directory.

Then I download the file "Wikibits.js", replacing the existing one in the
"/Skins/Common" folder.

Finally open and modify the "LocalSettings.php" to include, at the bottom,
the line:
require_once("$IP/extensions/CharInsert/CharInsert.php");

and then replace the existing file on the server with the newly modified
one.

Next the Wiki Sysop must go manually edit the "MediaWiki:Edittools" page on
_their own_ Wiki itself and copy the existing source code from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Edittools


The "MediaWiki:Edittools" page is normally locked and can only be unlocked
by the Wiki Sysop. (many thanks Jason!)

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Unfortunately I still haven’t had any luck with the extra edit buttons along
the top of the edit row of the edit page.  I copied the “Common.css” from
Wikipedia’s MediaWiki:Common.css page and pasted it into a text document,
saving it as a .css.  I then replaced it with the “Common.css” on my
server.  I noticed however that MediaWiki doesn’t install with Common.js.  I
went ahead and created it by taking the source code from Wikipedia’s
“Common.js” and then placed it in the same directory as the Common.css but
so far I haven’t seen any changes.  Any recommendations?

But, many thanks again!  Your help is really appreciated.

Chris


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