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Desperately seeking help with extra edit buttons, hope you don't mind :-)
Mark hello,

I've been trying to do this on my own for a few days now to no avail, so I thought I'd send out a message to you, in the hope you don't mind.

I'm new to the Wiki thing + I'm not a developer, so I'm struggling a little. I've finally got everything I want set up on my company Intranet, but I really need those buttons.

Is there anything that can walk me through what I need to do to get this to work on my wiki? I've read your page, but I'm not getting it. Specifically:

- Where does the extraeditbuttons.js file need to be placed? - Where does the live.css file need to be placed? - Do I have to download all the button icons? Where do I put them? - How do I get a file that's in the format User:Elad/file.ext ? Do I upload it, point to it somehow?

I hope you can help, I would really appreciate it. No one has answered my forum post so far either.

Best, Elad - eladb@omnicell.com

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There is an error in the extra edit buttons: The left and right align codes are the same, at least in the Comments / What is shown when editing  table. please fix this, thanks!-- penubag  08:39, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

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Installing XEB on Mediawiki 1.20
Hi,

I just can't get XEB to work on a vanilla Mediawiki,

I followed these steps:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MarkS/Extra_edit_buttons#Installing_XEB_on_your_own_Wiki

but nothing shows up.

But when I paste the js in MediaWiki:Common.js, all buttons show.

Am I doing something wrong, is monobook.js not loaded?

Can you help.

Ernst --82.95.113.165 (talk) 15:02, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

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Problems with installing your toolbar
Dear Mark,

I hope you don't mind, if I'm the 150.000st user who asks you the same questions. But I also hope you will help me anyways. Following your steps of installation, I tried to install the toolbar, but there are some questions I need to get answered (hope my english isn't too bad, but I'm native speaking german. Maybe that's why I got those probs with installing the bar.

1. You will need your own setup of the MediaWiki software. This is not something I can help you with. However, I have used meta:Wiki on a stick and found it easy to setup. I have also installed XEB on it.

I did and I have and it works so far. So this is one point I don't have to worry about.

2.You must enable users to run Javascript by setting $wgAllowUserJS to true in  LocalSettings.php

My original LocalSettings.php doesn't include a line $wgAllowUserJS. So can I put this new line anywhere in this file or do I have to take care of anything special? 3. For the simplest install create a user called MarkS (or see below at 6).

I did, if you need the password, just send me a message. :-)

4. Copy the XEB script from User:MarkS/extraeditbuttons.js to the same location on your wiki

Ok, now to the hard part.

a) Do I have to mark it with my mouse and then copy and paste it to an empty editor file?

b) If yes, do I have to save this file as extraeditbuttons.js in my wiki- root- folder or somewhere else?

c) or should I open my site with the extraeditbuttons.js and put the code in there? (my personal example: http://schwarze-lilie.com/wiki/index.php/extraeditbuttons.js)

5. Copy the XEB css from User:MarkS/XEB/live.css to the same location on your wiki

Same as the question before.

6. Get users to include the script by editing their monobook.js. (Note: The easiest way to do this without creating a user MarkS is adding an accordant line in [MonoBook].php (the php of   your skin)!) You might be able to do this the same way that it works on Wikipedia (see the top  of this article). Alternatively use the following lines (changing the URL as necessary): document.write(' ');

Sorry, but here I do not understand a single word. I opened my Monobook.php and was ready to accord a line, but WHAT line and WHERE?

7. Once the script is running you should move the images from MediaWiki to your own wiki.

Yeah, I will, and I hope IT will be running. ;-)

So thank you in advance for your answering and your patience.

Kind regards,

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A little help with XEB
Hi Mark, first of all thanks for help given to the community building those extra plugins.

I've been trying to install the XBE for a while but i didn't had any success. No XBE is displayed when i try to create or edit an article. I followed all the steps from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MarkS/Extra_edit_buttons but nothing seems to work.

Do you have a guide for beginners? :D

Thanks in advance

Sebastian

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Extra Edit Buttons
Hello!

I'm working on a project in the medical field. I'm using mediawiki 1.13.4, windows xp sp2 and wamp2 in localhost.

I want to make editing as simple and I need to add more buttons in the toolbar. I read several pages about it, I tried to follow instructions, but without success. It seems wrong somewhere. Would you explain step by step how to add buttons in the toolbar?

I managed until now to install only CharInsert, but without drop down option.

I think I need all three options for my users (doctors, with so little free time) can easily edit.

Please, if you have time, send me an e-mail.

Thank You!

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Regarding your "Extra edit buttons" script
Hi, I'm just wondering, can your Extra edit buttons script be used on any other Wikis that are not part of the Wikimedia foundation? There are a few other Wikis I'm part of and I'd really like to use this script in a few others as well. Thanks! Xhaoz  Talk  &bull;  Contribs  23:15, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Adding to this, how come it only works in user/user talk and not in article/article talk? I see you haven't edited since December 2008 but maybe you'll come back... - ALLST✰R ▼ echo wuz here  12:00, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
 * It should work in any wiki based that is using wikimedia as its base. Wikimedia has been updating its interface which is probably why it isn't working on some pages. If I get a chance I'll look at updating. -- Mark S (talk) 17:12, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Basic State Pensions
Hello Mark. With your extensive knowledge of pensions, can direct or provide to me, the value of pensions from 1968 to 2009 or at least to 1996-7. I have spent many hours on the internet from Canada without results. Thank you for your time. Michael Paul (michael.paul@sympatico.ca) MWPAUL (talk) 16:26, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

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extra buttons toolbar
Hi Mark,

I installed Mediawiki and I only have 8 buttons when I edit a page. to extend this toolbar and search for how to do this, I allways end up at you! But I can't get it to work. I use the vector skin, but none of the skins have a .js file. Do I need to create it myself (with your content) and where do I put it on the webserver?

I hope you can help me, thnx in advance.

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Hi, would you have time to help with a problem? I'm feeling my way around trying to understand how to set up scripts, with which you are clearly an expert. Another editor in the Simple English wikipedia has a Scandinavian keyboard that lacks [] and {} characters. I set up a very crude script here, which is usable for someone with a strong sense of humour, but your Extra edit buttons is clearly much nicer. Would you be able to help bring that functionality over to Simple? Sminthopsis84 (talk) 15:10, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
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