[Mediawiki-l] special button in the edit area

[Platonides]

Scheid, Bernhard wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I would like to add a function/button to the edit window: 
> like the "nowiki" or "italics" button it should create typographical hyphens (“...”) in the textarea. How could that be done? Or is there some extension to do that?
> 
> Thx 
> 
> Bernhard

Go (as a sysop) to [[MediaWiki:Common.js]] and add the following:

mwCustomEditButtons[mwCustomEditButtons.length] =
		{"imageFile": "http://url/to/the/image/button",
		 "speedTip": "Typographical hyphens",
		 "tagOpen": "“",
		 "tagClose": "”",
		 "sampleText": "Quoted text"};