>>>> "Erik" == Erik Moeller
>>>> <erik_moeller(a)gmx.de> writes:
Erik> Uwe Brauer:
Erik> Try visiting a URL like
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/
Erik> that is, add &externaledit=true after the &action=edit
Erik> this should tell you if ee.pl is at all being called
Erik> correctly. Make sure you are editing a wiki you have
Erik> actually set up ee.ini to work with. Each Wikimedia wiki
Erik> has its own user account database. The URL also needs to
Erik> match the URL match listing in ee.ini.
Right, I was not aware of that. I created an account in
http://en.wikipedia.org, I set in preference the editor to
Use external editor by default
And I added in my ee.ini the lines
URL
match=http://en.wikipedia.org/w/ Username=myuserid
Password=mypasswd
Then I thought this would be enough for any wiki site in english,
like
http://meta.wikipedia.org which is wrong as I understand
now.
So my I suggest to emphasise the following point:
- create a account in the relevant wiki, say
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/ (could me also
http://meta.wikipedia.org)
- set in preference the editor to "Use external editor by
default"
- set in ee.ini the following link URL
match=http://en.wikipedia.org/w/ Username=myuserid
Password=mypasswd if it were
http://meta.wikipedia.org, it
should be URL
match=http://meta.wikipedia.org/w/
Username=myuserid Password=mypasswd
I think this way even newcomers like me should understand it.
Erik> The bookmarklet does nothing more than generating a URL
Erik> like this from the page you're looking at, and telling
Erik> your browser to visit it, so if this doesn't work,
Erik> neither will the bookmarklet.
Erik> Create a new bookmark/favorite in your browser and copy
Erik> the JavaScript snippet exactly as it is into the field
Erik> where you would normally write the URL of a webpage you
Erik> want to visit. Visit the bookmark/favorite whenever you
Erik> want to use the external editor. But again, make sure
Erik> ee.pl is set up correctly first, or you will have to
Erik> debug two things at the same time.
ok
Erik> I've tried to expand the instructions on Meta with the above; let me
Erik> know if it makes sense to you.
The part about that javascript is now clear, and I think it was
especially useful to mention, that the perl script has already to be
installed correctly!!!
Thanks and regards
Uwe