Hi,
I've been putting together a tool that makes a bit easier to do
internal linking for wikiHow users. If you check out an editing page
at wikihow:
http://www.wikihow.com/index.php?title=Toilet-Train-a-Cat&action=edit&a…
and select some text, say the word "litter" in the first step you can
select the 2nd internal links button (2nd from the right) on the
toolbar to get a popup with results that match your text selection.
(in FF you can use the accesskey 'r'). The textarea behind the popup
becomes disabled at this point.
From here you can either click on one of the links to
create the
internal link, or "no thanks". Similarly, you can press 1
through 9 on
the keyboard to insert the desired link, or hit escape to close the
popup, and the textarea goes back to normal editing.
In IE, the accesskey doesn't seem to work because the text becomes
de-selected when you hit the ALT key. Is this a known issue, are there
any workarounds?
Does anyone have any ideas on how this could be made to be more useful?
Is there any easy way to retrieve search results from a standard
Mediawiki installation that are easily parsed by Javascript? Right now
our custom Lucene plugin can display the results in a straight text,
one result per line format, which helps out the javascript end of this
plugin. Is there anything similar built into Mediawiki?
Travis