View source for Quicker page edits on mediawiki

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I have some slower wikis on shared hosting where a page load can take >5s. If I can go straight to the edit mode of a page without first loading it in page view mode, this can save time. This is especially relevant when editing many pages at a time, such as during a cleanup of [[Mediawiki Extension RottenLinks]]. 
However it is done, the trick is to do the initial page load with a postfix to the URL of <code>&action=edit</code> (for regular edits) or  <code>&action=formedit</code> for edits using [[Mediawiki Extension PageForms]].

== Option 1 - Add a Gesturefy Gesture open the page with the edit link ==
One way to do this would be to use browser extensions like [https://github.com/Robbendebiene/Gesturefy Gesturefy]  to apply a postfix <code>&action=edit</code> to the URL. 

== Option 2 - Use a Greasemonkey script to add edit links ==
Another option is to use the following script in browser extension [https://www.greasespot.net/ Greasemonkey] to actually provide [e] edit links and [fe] form edit links (for [[Mediawiki Extension PageForms]]. 

There is a bug in this script in that it only adds the links to ~ every second internal link of the wiki. I have not been able to figure out how to make it add it to ''every'' link. If you know the trick, please [[Contact]] us.

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 // ==UserScript==
 // @name     wikimedia allEdit
 // @include  <URL of your wiki here>/*
 // ==/UserScript==
  
 var links = document.getElementsByTagName('a');
 for(var i = 0; i < links.length; i=i+2) {											// for each link 
   var a = links[i];																						// put that link into a.
  																														// filter links for those where edit makes sense
  if((a.href.indexOf("/index.php?title=") > -1) 
     && (a.href.indexOf(encodeURIComponent("section")) == -1) 
     && (a.href.indexOf(encodeURIComponent("Main")) == -1) 
     && (a.href.indexOf(encodeURIComponent("Special")) == -1) 
     && (a.href.indexOf(encodeURIComponent("edit")) == -1) 
     && (a.href.indexOf(encodeURIComponent("info")) == -1) 
     && (a.href.indexOf(encodeURIComponent("history")) == -1) 
     && (a.href.indexOf(encodeURIComponent("delete")) == -1) 
     && (a.href.indexOf(encodeURIComponent("watch")) == -1) 
     && (a.href.indexOf(encodeURIComponent("unwatch")) == -1) 
     && (a.href.indexOf(encodeURIComponent("action=delete")) == -1) 
     && (a.href.indexOf(encodeURIComponent("images")) == -1) 
     && (a.href.indexOf(encodeURIComponent("oldid")) == -1) 
     && (a.href.indexOf(encodeURIComponent("printable")) == -1)) 
     {							// if it is a link inside this wiki
 		
 //    alert("href: " + a.href + " -- position of section: "); // + ();
 //    var test = a.href.indexOf(encodeURIComponent("section"));
 //    alert(a.href.indexOf(encodeURIComponent("section")) == -1);
    
    var editLink = document.createElement('a');							    // make a new element
     editLink.setAttribute("href", a.href + "&action=edit");	  // set it to href of element we are looking at
     editLink.appendChild(document.createTextNode(" [e]"));	// set the visible text to "edit
     a.appendChild(editLink); 																  // append the edit <a> element
    var editLink = document.createElement('a');							    // make a new element
     editLink.setAttribute("href", a.href + "&action=formedit");	  // set it to href of element we are looking at
     editLink.appendChild(document.createTextNode(" [fe]"));	// set the visible text to "edit
     a.appendChild(editLink); 																  // append the edit <a> element
  }
 }
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== Option 3 - ContextSearch ==
See [[Firefox Add-on ContextSearch#Right-click edits on mediawiki | here]] for how to use ContextSearch to open a mediawiki page in edit mode.

== Option 4 - AutoWikiBrowser ==
Use [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser AutoWikiBrowser] to get a set of pages to pre-load and do fully automated or facilitated edits on them. 

== Option 5 ==
Use the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot Pywikibot] Python library to interact with mediawiki programmatically.