Re: [Mediawiki-l] How to add a Character Box

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!) ---------- 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 ------ In all eternity it is impossible for me to compel a person to accept an opinion, a conviction, a belief. But one thing I can do: I can compel him to take notice. -- Søren Kierkegaard _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l