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We're using Wikimedia for our intranet.
I'd like to set it up so the Edit toolbar has the extra buttons available on the English version of Wikipedia (for inserting tables, etc.)
Is this possible and, if so, how?
Thanks.
Sam Dutton
14:36, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
I'm looking to enable extra options on my MediaWiki edit toolbar too, to match Wikipedia, but I can not find documentation for it! (Everything after the horizontal line is unavailable). 24.235.149.75 ( talk) 20:51, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
Someone seems to be screwing with the font sizes for the editing textarea today. I've had the experimental navigable table of contents, enhanced editing toolbar, and dialogs for inserting links, etc., enabled for a while, but today the font size is blowing up much bigger than I want. I've had to disable all three of the experimental checkboxes to get back to normal. I use Firefox on Linux, and my affected machine has a screen DPI of 120. — Mulad (talk) 01:17, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
To correspond with new buttons on the current edit toolbar. -- œ ™ 10:24, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
Copy of a thread I started at [User talk:Mr.Z-man]
Hi. I was looking for an explanatory page for our current wikieditor toolbar. The page Help:Edit toolbar is out of date, and the only decent reference (and screenshot) I can find of it is at Wikipedia:RefToolbar 2.0. Do you happen to know if there's a more current Help page, either here or meta or elsewhere? Thanks :) -- Quiddity ( talk) 06:07, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
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Why is this article being considered for deletion? -- THE FOUNDERS INTENT PRAISE GOOD WORKS 22:29, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
I think I may have screwed up my .js files, because I haven't had a toolbar for a long time. -- THE FOUNDERS INTENT PRAISE 12:33, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
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My name is Salah Alhilo, I am one of the Open University Staff, I am posting the ICTs Department manager in the University, The text and information about the OUS is need to be completed and updated. so please I want to have permission to edit this page. Thanks
Salahhilo ( talk) 15:48, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
How's about adding the search-and-replace function to the table? benzband ( talk) 09:40, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
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Is it possible to have a default selection under Preferences, for American style or European style for the access date inserted with any citation template on the Edit toolbar? Currently, "Insert Date" brings up only the European style, which is inconsistent if the article text contains American style dates. And if this is the wrong place to put this request, please provide a link to the appropriate place. Thank you. Maile66 ( talk) 00:15, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
I think the buttons on the edit toolbar should be changed. For example, right now if you click the "Bold" button, you get '''Bold text'''
inserted into the edit window. What I'd like is that if no text is highlighted, a pop-up window opens saying something like "Insert bold text" with a line for adding the text to be bolded (and possibly with a note on when to add bold text in pages). If text is highlighted, then it is made bold. If you don't get what I'm talking about, click on the "Link" button—that's the model I'm looking at. The same design would apply for "Italic text", "Bulleted list", "Big text", etc. I think this would help cut down on test edits and make the toolbar more usable.
David
1217
What I've done
05:10, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
This toolbar is showing up unannounced and unwanted on several users' edit boxes no matter what preference settings we twiddle with. How can we disable it? Timrollpickering ( talk) 22:28, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
Enable enhanced editing toolbar |
Enable dialogs for inserting links, tables and more |
RefToolbar version |
RefToolbar style |
---|---|---|---|
Off | Off On |
RefToolbar 1.0 |
Cite icon on right |
On | Off | RefToolbar 2.0a |
{{}} icon in middle |
On | RefToolbar 2.0b |
Cite button on right |
The box was not selected in the first place and attempts to turn it on then off did not work. Fortunately the intrusion has now been resolved. Timrollpickering ( talk) 10:54, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
I would sure love to have <pre></pre>
and </code><code>
available as advanced tools and - this is a biggie - to have underscoring and strikeout available on the mail toolbar. Or - if not - instructions on how to add these.
RiverStyx23{
talk
email}
14:32, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
As of this morning, the "New line" and "redirect" arrows from the toolbar are poking down into my editing area, and are in the way when I am working on the top line there. Someone please fix this. Cheers! bd2412 T 19:20, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
All over Wikipedia we are exhorted to sign with four tildes, ~~~~. So why does the signature button on the edit toolbar insert two hyphens and four tildes, --~~~~? Considering the war on hyphens that currently being waged throughout the project, that is faintly surprising. It's also mildly annoying to have to delete those two hyphens every time I sign. I'd like to ask if there is any reason for it? And if it could be changed? Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 23:17, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
"Search and replace" seems to not work in IE10, everything else does though. Not sure whether this is the same issue, but also see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Toolbars#IE9_and_IE10 Timmyshin ( talk) 04:39, 22 August 2013 (UTC)
When I add a file using the "embedded file" button on the toolbar, the default size option added is "thumbnail". An editor has changed that to "thumb" in an article I've edited. Looking at Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Images#Image_syntax, "thumb" is used, though I see that Wikipedia:Extended_image_syntax, after initially showing "thumb" as the word to use, then refers to ""thumb" (or "thumbnail"...". It looks as if the RefToolbar is offering the less preferred word here: could it be changed so it adds "thumb", please? Pam D 09:04, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
Enhanced editing toolbar's Cite drop menu is obscured suddenly as of today. I had made no changes to browser or preferences; I merely was in the middle of editing a page and when I tried to use the enhanced editing toolbar's cite drop menu ("Templates"), it appears as if the menu does drop but it goes behind the editing section and only Cite web is clickable (and only as a tiny sliver that is unlabeled). I use this cite program quite frequently... Ogress smash! 08:14, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
I may not be able to use technical jargon but I'll try to expalain. When you press the "Search and replace" button there opens a subordinate window, that allows a user to simply drag the text from the background text editing area into that opened window. But this trick does not work with other windows ("Link", "File", "Cite"). Is it possible to allow these windows to behave like "Search and replace"?-- Lüboslóv Yęzýkin ( talk) 14:00, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
Would you include a link to Manual of Style/Text formatting under "Help", and another to Citing sources under "Cite", for a quicker access? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hexafluoride ( talk • contribs) 23:12, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
The "Line break" button generates <br/>
. It should generate <br />
. Strangely, the
Help Page for the toolbar shows it correctly. Even though the Wikipedia code parser allows one to "get away" with badly-formatted XHTML, the standard calls for a single space before the slash when closing empty elements such as <br />
, <hr />
, <img />
, etc. —
Quicksilver (Hydrargyrum)
T
@
01:37, 3 December 2016 (UTC)
<br>
are considered open, and once used, change the highlighting from the point of first use all the way to the bottom of the document. The only way to turn off the highlighting so one can see normal text unhighlighted is to apply strict XHTML rules. Who is coordinating these things? Nobody, obviously. We have ill-informed groups of three or four individuals declaring a "consensus" and pretending that every one of the 2000+ active editors and coders on the English Wikipedia have heard of their decision and have agreed to it. There is nothing wrong with XHTML: It is used internally in Wikipedia and isn't revealed to the average site visitor. As far as I can see, there is absolutely no compelling reason to prefer HTML5. Wikipedia could be built and maintained indefinitely into the future using XHTML; there are COBOL and FORTRAN software projects older than most of today's programmers have been alive that still work just fine. Sorry if I sound argumentative, but that's the way I see it. —
Quicksilver (Hydrargyrum)
T
@
15:52, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
I am unable to see the edit tool bar at the top of any page. The problem persists on different computers and browsers. Is there a solution? - MainlyTwelve ( talk) 15:33, 7 November 2018 (UTC)
There is nowhere to "see below". -- Error ( talk) 11:21, 5 June 2020 (UTC)
-- 2600:8801:3501:1600:FC96:5C3F:C1E9:B14C ( talk) 22:16, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
This
edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
2600:8801:3501:1600:FC96:5C3F:C1E9:B14C ( talk) 22:16, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
Laura Irene Redsecker
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Text and/or other creative content from Meta:Help:Edit toolbar was copied or moved into Help:Edit toolbar with this edit. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists. |
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We're using Wikimedia for our intranet.
I'd like to set it up so the Edit toolbar has the extra buttons available on the English version of Wikipedia (for inserting tables, etc.)
Is this possible and, if so, how?
Thanks.
Sam Dutton
14:36, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
I'm looking to enable extra options on my MediaWiki edit toolbar too, to match Wikipedia, but I can not find documentation for it! (Everything after the horizontal line is unavailable). 24.235.149.75 ( talk) 20:51, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
Someone seems to be screwing with the font sizes for the editing textarea today. I've had the experimental navigable table of contents, enhanced editing toolbar, and dialogs for inserting links, etc., enabled for a while, but today the font size is blowing up much bigger than I want. I've had to disable all three of the experimental checkboxes to get back to normal. I use Firefox on Linux, and my affected machine has a screen DPI of 120. — Mulad (talk) 01:17, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
To correspond with new buttons on the current edit toolbar. -- œ ™ 10:24, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
Copy of a thread I started at [User talk:Mr.Z-man]
Hi. I was looking for an explanatory page for our current wikieditor toolbar. The page Help:Edit toolbar is out of date, and the only decent reference (and screenshot) I can find of it is at Wikipedia:RefToolbar 2.0. Do you happen to know if there's a more current Help page, either here or meta or elsewhere? Thanks :) -- Quiddity ( talk) 06:07, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
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Why is this article being considered for deletion? -- THE FOUNDERS INTENT PRAISE GOOD WORKS 22:29, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
I think I may have screwed up my .js files, because I haven't had a toolbar for a long time. -- THE FOUNDERS INTENT PRAISE 12:33, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
This
edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
My name is Salah Alhilo, I am one of the Open University Staff, I am posting the ICTs Department manager in the University, The text and information about the OUS is need to be completed and updated. so please I want to have permission to edit this page. Thanks
Salahhilo ( talk) 15:48, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
How's about adding the search-and-replace function to the table? benzband ( talk) 09:40, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
This
edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
Is it possible to have a default selection under Preferences, for American style or European style for the access date inserted with any citation template on the Edit toolbar? Currently, "Insert Date" brings up only the European style, which is inconsistent if the article text contains American style dates. And if this is the wrong place to put this request, please provide a link to the appropriate place. Thank you. Maile66 ( talk) 00:15, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
I think the buttons on the edit toolbar should be changed. For example, right now if you click the "Bold" button, you get '''Bold text'''
inserted into the edit window. What I'd like is that if no text is highlighted, a pop-up window opens saying something like "Insert bold text" with a line for adding the text to be bolded (and possibly with a note on when to add bold text in pages). If text is highlighted, then it is made bold. If you don't get what I'm talking about, click on the "Link" button—that's the model I'm looking at. The same design would apply for "Italic text", "Bulleted list", "Big text", etc. I think this would help cut down on test edits and make the toolbar more usable.
David
1217
What I've done
05:10, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
This toolbar is showing up unannounced and unwanted on several users' edit boxes no matter what preference settings we twiddle with. How can we disable it? Timrollpickering ( talk) 22:28, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
Enable enhanced editing toolbar |
Enable dialogs for inserting links, tables and more |
RefToolbar version |
RefToolbar style |
---|---|---|---|
Off | Off On |
RefToolbar 1.0 |
Cite icon on right |
On | Off | RefToolbar 2.0a |
{{}} icon in middle |
On | RefToolbar 2.0b |
Cite button on right |
The box was not selected in the first place and attempts to turn it on then off did not work. Fortunately the intrusion has now been resolved. Timrollpickering ( talk) 10:54, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
I would sure love to have <pre></pre>
and </code><code>
available as advanced tools and - this is a biggie - to have underscoring and strikeout available on the mail toolbar. Or - if not - instructions on how to add these.
RiverStyx23{
talk
email}
14:32, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
As of this morning, the "New line" and "redirect" arrows from the toolbar are poking down into my editing area, and are in the way when I am working on the top line there. Someone please fix this. Cheers! bd2412 T 19:20, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
All over Wikipedia we are exhorted to sign with four tildes, ~~~~. So why does the signature button on the edit toolbar insert two hyphens and four tildes, --~~~~? Considering the war on hyphens that currently being waged throughout the project, that is faintly surprising. It's also mildly annoying to have to delete those two hyphens every time I sign. I'd like to ask if there is any reason for it? And if it could be changed? Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 23:17, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
"Search and replace" seems to not work in IE10, everything else does though. Not sure whether this is the same issue, but also see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Toolbars#IE9_and_IE10 Timmyshin ( talk) 04:39, 22 August 2013 (UTC)
When I add a file using the "embedded file" button on the toolbar, the default size option added is "thumbnail". An editor has changed that to "thumb" in an article I've edited. Looking at Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Images#Image_syntax, "thumb" is used, though I see that Wikipedia:Extended_image_syntax, after initially showing "thumb" as the word to use, then refers to ""thumb" (or "thumbnail"...". It looks as if the RefToolbar is offering the less preferred word here: could it be changed so it adds "thumb", please? Pam D 09:04, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
Enhanced editing toolbar's Cite drop menu is obscured suddenly as of today. I had made no changes to browser or preferences; I merely was in the middle of editing a page and when I tried to use the enhanced editing toolbar's cite drop menu ("Templates"), it appears as if the menu does drop but it goes behind the editing section and only Cite web is clickable (and only as a tiny sliver that is unlabeled). I use this cite program quite frequently... Ogress smash! 08:14, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
I may not be able to use technical jargon but I'll try to expalain. When you press the "Search and replace" button there opens a subordinate window, that allows a user to simply drag the text from the background text editing area into that opened window. But this trick does not work with other windows ("Link", "File", "Cite"). Is it possible to allow these windows to behave like "Search and replace"?-- Lüboslóv Yęzýkin ( talk) 14:00, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
Would you include a link to Manual of Style/Text formatting under "Help", and another to Citing sources under "Cite", for a quicker access? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hexafluoride ( talk • contribs) 23:12, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
The "Line break" button generates <br/>
. It should generate <br />
. Strangely, the
Help Page for the toolbar shows it correctly. Even though the Wikipedia code parser allows one to "get away" with badly-formatted XHTML, the standard calls for a single space before the slash when closing empty elements such as <br />
, <hr />
, <img />
, etc. —
Quicksilver (Hydrargyrum)
T
@
01:37, 3 December 2016 (UTC)
<br>
are considered open, and once used, change the highlighting from the point of first use all the way to the bottom of the document. The only way to turn off the highlighting so one can see normal text unhighlighted is to apply strict XHTML rules. Who is coordinating these things? Nobody, obviously. We have ill-informed groups of three or four individuals declaring a "consensus" and pretending that every one of the 2000+ active editors and coders on the English Wikipedia have heard of their decision and have agreed to it. There is nothing wrong with XHTML: It is used internally in Wikipedia and isn't revealed to the average site visitor. As far as I can see, there is absolutely no compelling reason to prefer HTML5. Wikipedia could be built and maintained indefinitely into the future using XHTML; there are COBOL and FORTRAN software projects older than most of today's programmers have been alive that still work just fine. Sorry if I sound argumentative, but that's the way I see it. —
Quicksilver (Hydrargyrum)
T
@
15:52, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
I am unable to see the edit tool bar at the top of any page. The problem persists on different computers and browsers. Is there a solution? - MainlyTwelve ( talk) 15:33, 7 November 2018 (UTC)
There is nowhere to "see below". -- Error ( talk) 11:21, 5 June 2020 (UTC)
-- 2600:8801:3501:1600:FC96:5C3F:C1E9:B14C ( talk) 22:16, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
This
edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
2600:8801:3501:1600:FC96:5C3F:C1E9:B14C ( talk) 22:16, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
Laura Irene Redsecker