Help:Rich text editor



Welcome to Wikia's new rich text editor, which has recently been released sitewide.

Currently, almost all formatting can be done via the editor, including images and templates. If there are important abilities missing please let us know.

Editor upgrade
As of December 2009, a new version of this editor has been developed. This page will be updated soon.

What does this editor do?
The editor allows you to use a "word-processor" type toolbar to format an article in the following ways without any wikimarkup:
 * Basic formatting - including bold, italic, underline and strike-through
 * Lists, with bullet points or numbers
 * Links, including both interwiki and external links
 * Images, using the Add Images editor
 * Videos, using the Video Embed Tool
 * Table creation and editing
 * Templates, using a built-in template selector and editor
 * Add or edit article categories using CategorySelect

When in the default mode, the article will appear in the edit box almost exactly as it will on the saved page, like an instant preview.

Users can also switch to "Wikitext source" mode to view and edit the article using wikimarkup. To get to this mode, click the "wikitext source" button on the far right of the toolbar.

To edit existing images, videos, tables and templates:
 * Images and videos - hover over the image/video and click "edit"
 * Tables - right-click on the table
 * Templates - click on the grey square containing the name of the template

Link editing
To add links, click on the icon with a picture of a chain link on it that looks like this:. It can be found in under Lists and Links.

Template editing steps
Note, you can customize the list of templates available on the templates dropdown menu via MediaWiki:Editor-template-list.

Wikitext in WYSIWYG
As of July 2009, the editor allows the entering of basic wikitext in WYSIWYG mode, to help users transition, and to provide shortcuts for common functionality.

You can convert wikitext into Rich Text without saving the page by clicking Preview or switching to/from source mode.

These types of wikitext are accepted:
 * Headings
 * Links
 * Bold, italic, underline, strikethrough
 * Signatures
 * Simple templates and magic words

What does this editor not do?
The editor is active for almost all pages, including articles, user pages, and image description pages. However, talk pages and MediaWiki and Template namespace pages currently use the old editor.

You can view, but not directly edit templates, parser functions, and references. These elements will still appear in edit mode but will be marked by a grey background. You can change template parameters by clicking on the template and using the dialog that pops up. To edit parser functions, you must switch to wikitext source mode.

In a few specific cases, the new editor cannot be turned on at all. In these cases, the old editor will be used. This will happen if:
 * There are HTML comments in the text that do not begin a line.
 * The magic word  has been used.
 * Some other specific cases of very complex wikitext.

How do I turn on/off the new editor

 * To disable this editor for yourself, go to Special:Preferences and select the "Editing" tab. Untick the option to "Enable Rich Text Editing".
 * To disable the new editor for a single article you can use the special word  (Note: The new editor system will still be loaded, but will be locked to 'source' mode.)
 * You can also use parameters to enable and disable the new editor for a specific edit - add one of the following to the end of an editing URL:
 * (old editor),  (new editor),   (new editor, starting in source mode)
 * For example,  would force MediaWiki to use the old editor.
 * Note, these will only work on places where the new editor is already enabled.

Other notes

 * Currently tables are always converted to longhand wikitext (i.e. one line per cell) for technical reasons.
 * Please note that the editor is not currently supported on the Safari, Opera and Chrome browsers.
 * The editor will only be visible when using the Monaco skin, even if you have it enabled in your preferences and it is enabled at your wiki.

Feedback
If you have feedback about the new editor, please visit the Central Forums or email staff using Special:Contact.

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