Extension:UniversalEditButton: Difference between revisions

This extension is obsolete! It has been replaced by core functionality in the MediaWiki software (which was added in version 1.14.0). See $wgUniversalEditButton.

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UniversalEditButton Release status: stable
Implementation	Page action
Description	Adds support for the UniversalEditButton Firefox extension
Author(s)	Brion Vibber
MediaWiki	1.12+
License	GPL-2
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Hooks used BeforePageDisplay
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The Universal Edit Button is a green pencil icon in the address bar that indicates a web page is editable. It is similar to the orange "broadcast" RSS icon that indicates there is an RSS feed available.

Installing

Download via SVN. Then add the following lines to your LocalSettings.php file.

require_once( "$IP/extensions/UniversalEditButton/UniversalEditButton.php" );

Get the Firefox extension :: http://universaleditbutton.org/Universal_Edit_Button

What is it?

It allows people to more quickly recognise when a site may be edited. It may serve as an incentive to encourage companies and site developers to add publicly-editable components to their sites. The universal edit button is made visible to people browsing the web by a two step process:

1. Website announces the availability of an edit page using the html <link> tag.
2. Web browsers notice this tag and present an edit button in their location field