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 &action=edit (for regular edits) or &action=formedit 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 Gesturefy to apply a postfix &action=edit to the URL.

Option 2 - Use a Greasemonkey script to add edit links

Another option is to use the following script in browser extension 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 } }

Option 3 - ContextSearch

See here for how to use ContextSearch to open a mediawiki page in edit mode.

Option 4 - AutoWikiBrowser

Use AutoWikiBrowser to get a set of pages to pre-load and do fully automated or facilitated edits on them.

Option 5

Use the Pywikibot Python library to interact with mediawiki programmatically.