Help:External editors

From June 2005, a new MediaWiki feature lets you edit pages or images with an external editor.

This feature requires you to install a helper application called "ee.pl" which can be downloaded from Wikimedia site.

If you install this feature, you will be able to save data to Wikia directly from any editing program, along with an edit summary. You will be able to make multiple edits on the server by using the "save and continue" button.

If you want to use an external editor by default, you can choose this in your preferences. If not, you need to manually adapt the URL of a page to point to "action=edit&externaledit=true" (a bookmarklet such as javascript:location=location + '?action=edit&externaledit=true'; can be used to access this feature). For images, there is always a link on the image description page which lets you choose to edit the image externally.

Ee.pl can also be used to view diffs using an external diff program instead of the MediaWiki diff feature. See MetaWikipedia:Help:Diff.