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henrywallace

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Registered: 2019-11-10

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Wiki live previews, and visual editors

What is necessary to implement live previews of edits, and visual editors in the arch wiki?

Here is what I have found thus far:
- This appears to be the relevant code for the wiki: https://github.com/archlinux/archwiki. Closed pull requests show some example mediawiki version updates, but more than a version update may be necessary to support this.
- Wikimedia's blog on how they designed live previews and visual editing: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/04/18/h … wikipedia/
- Mediawiki's page on live previews: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests … ve_preview

progandy

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Registered: 2012-05-17

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Re: Wiki live previews, and visual editors

I'm not sure what you think has to be done. You can already try to enable "Show previews without reloading the page" under Special:Preferences -> Editing.

To use wikEd, you could try the Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey version, but User:YourUsername/common.js should also work I think.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cacy … mpermonkey

Last edited by progandy (2019-11-10 19:09:10)

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henrywallace

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Registered: 2019-11-10

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Re: Wiki live previews, and visual editors

Oh brilliant, thanks!