If you use MediaWiki to run an internal wiki, and like to save your work often, you may be somewhat frustrated by the fact you have to save, then go back to edit mode and scroll down to return to your place.
These are instructions to create an extension to add a “save and continue” link that will save the article and then take you back to editing mode, scrolled down to where you were.
I have not been able to find a ready made extension or greasemonkey script for this- if one exists, please let me know and I will point to that instead! At some point I may learn how to create an extension you can just download, but for now, just follow these steps. It’s easy!
1: Install the chickenfoot Firefox extension and restart Firefox.
1b. Once Firefox is restarted, press F8 or go to view>sidebar>chickenfoot to see the chickenfoot sidebar.
2. Go to this page of site specific scripts, copy the code for MediaWiki ” Save & continue” and paste it into the top pane of the chickenfoot sidebar.
2b. At this point, you can test the script out by going to any MediaWiki edit page and pressing the green play button. Magic!
3. Click the “Package script as a Firefox extension” button, and enter in relevant information:
- Name: Whatever you want to name it.
- Author: Your name.
- Description: Whatever or leave blank.
- Version: Whatever or leave as is.
- Includes/Excludes: Put the sites you want the script to apply to. (e.g. http://*.wikipedia.com/* For Wikipedia. Use * to replace parts of URL’s so they apply to an entire site)
- GUID: Just click the button to generate- if you want to make it updatable, you’ll have to use the same number the next time you save the extension.
- Then chose where to save the file (Save file as…)
4. Go to file>Open File in Firefox, find that file you just made, and it will load as an extension.
4b. Restart firefox again.
Next time you go to the site you specified in the “Includes/Excludes” field, you’ll see an extra button:
Before:
After:
Ă‚Â Uninstalling:
If you ever want to remove the script, just go to Tools>Add ons, choose extensions, and then uninstall the extension you just made. It will look something like this, but with the name you gave it.
Tada! Now you can go tell everyone you make Firefox extensions. If others in your organization want to use it, you can email it to them and tell them to open it in Firefox.