wikEd is an editing tool for MediaWiki. Its most important function for Appropedia is to convert formatted text to wiki markup.
It works in Firefox (and other Mozilla browsers).
Using wikEd to convert formatted text to wiki markup
The easiest place to find wikEd is at Wikedbox.
To port content using wikEd:
- Copy and paste the formatted text into Wikedbox
- Go to the edit box on Appropedia and paste (ctrl+c and ctrl+v).
- Click the wikify button, which looks like: [w]
- Copy the converted wiki text (ctrl+a to select all, then ctrl+c) and paste into the target page.
- Preview and fix problems as you are able to (or save first then do the fixing).
- Note that it works for formatted text, and not for images. The urls of images are replaced with their filenames, so you must decide what to do:
- Upload the images & ensure the links are correct - only if the images are open licensed; or
- Manually fix the image links to correct links to the images -where they are very relevant, but not open licensed; or
- Strip out the links entirely (easiest option)
WikEd instructions are found at Wikipedia:User:Cacycle/wikEd.
Note: it's best not to click "Save" when on the Wikeditbox page, to avoid confusing others, but it doesn't matter too much. You can use wikEd to port pages and keep their format. This works for Word documents and HTML pages, and probably many other standard formats. However, it does not yet work for , so PDF files must be converted to XML or HTML first (see Help:Porting content from PDF format) then converted again with wikEd.
It can be added to the individual user's account, to give:
- a range of extra editing options and shortcuts.
- a way to easily convert formatted text to MediaWiki markup (by clicking the wikify button (
![[w]](/w/images/9/9f/WikEd_wikify.png)
).
![[w]](/File:WikEd_wikify.png){kind=small}
How to install
An example is found at: http://www.appropedia.org/index.php?title=User:Chriswaterguy/monobook.js&oldid=33334
You can copy the text in that page to your own monobook.js page, do a hard refresh to clear your browser's cache (e.g. ctrl+F5?) and you should have the new editing tools above the edit box.
More complete instructions are found at Wikipedia:User:Cacycle/wikEd installation.