Help:Extension:WikiEditor
The WikiEditor extension provides a toolbar for MediaWiki's main wikitext editing box. This toolbar provides the following functionality:
- Formatting insertion buttons for bold, italic, larger/smaller text, and super- and sub-script.
- Heading selection button
- Unordered and ordered lists
- Redirect insertion
- File gallery insertion
- Table inserter
- Search-and-replace dialog — make bulk changes to the page's wikitext
- File uploading and insertion dialogs — upload files, and/or search for existing files and add the appropriate image syntax to the page
- Signature insertion button
- Link insertion dialog
- nowiki insertion
- Newline inserter — add a
<br />at the caret - Realtime Preview — a side-by-side preview of the page
- Special character library
- Wikitext syntax cheatsheets and help information
Keyboard shortcuts
[edit]On Mac devices, please use ⌘ Cmd instead of Ctrl. For more details see Help:Keyboard shortcuts.
| PC key | macOS Key | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Ctrl+B | ⌘ Command+B | Bold |
| Ctrl+I | ⌘ Command+I | Italic |
| Ctrl+U | ⌘ Command+U | Underline |
| Ctrl+K | ⌘ Command+K | Add link |
| Ctrl+\ | ⌘ Command+\ | <nowiki>...</nowiki>
|
| Ctrl+. | ⌘ Command+. | Superscript |
| Ctrl+, | ⌘ Command+, | Subscript |
| Alt+⇧ Shift+) | Ctrl+⌥ Option+) | Reload the realtime preview pane |
Other extensions
[edit]Other extensions often add their own functionality to the toolbar. This is documented on those extension's help pages: