[Mediawiki-l] External editing broken in MW 1.15.4 ?

Platonides Platonides at gmail.com
Sat Sep 11 22:32:35 UTC 2010


Daniel K. Schneider wrote:
>Platonides wrote:
>> I filed bugs 23764 and 23765 to keep track of it.
> 
> Thanx :)
> 
> Let's hope that someone who knows Perl is motivated (I am not a 
> developer and don't speak Perl). I also noticed that the original 
> author, Erik Moeller, is now a deputy director of Wikipedia and he might 
> care about his original baby or maybe know someone who does :)
> 
> Anyhow, more fundamentally speaking, it would be really good to have 
> this feature again. So here is some motivational speak:
> I understand that most wikipedia authors rather do smaller edits and for 
> this purpose a through-the-web editor is fine. Other mediawiki sites 
> (include wikimedia places like wikibooks or wikiversity) do have users 
> that intensively work on several long pages at the same time and who are 
> able to get a maximum out of a programming editor like emacs or Jedit, 
> Eclipse or whatever .... I sometimes spend days in row writing and 
> organizing and this feature really helped. Installing ee.pl wasn't 
> difficult at all under Ubuntu :)

Bawolff has fixed it in r72770.
Replace your ee.pl with the one from
http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/ee/ee.pl?view=co





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