IT/Software/Mediawiki/Extensions/Visual Editor

About

• The Visual editor is the editor you see when you click edit on a msgwiki page.
  • You can always click "Edit Source" to see the actual code on the page.
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VisualEditor

Installation

• You can download the tarball here.
  • Make sure that you match the visual editor to the version of MediaWiki that you are running
• Add the following to your LocalSettings.php to enable.

wfLoadExtension( 'VisualEditor' );

• Add the following line to allow everyone to use the visual editor.

$wgDefaultUserOptions['visualeditor-enable'] = 1;

• Add the following line to tell the Visual Editor where to find the parsoid.

$wgVirtualRestConfig['modules']['parsoid'] = array('url' => 'http://localhost:8000');

Configuring parsoid

• Follow the instructions here to install the parsoid.

• Open the file /etc/mediawiki/parsoid/config.yaml
• Find the uri line and change to

uri: 'https://msgwiki.msgeducation.com/api.php'

• Next comment out the domain line. In theory you should be able to put your wikis FQDN here but for me it seems to work more consistently without the line.
• Lastly add the following lines to the end of the file and then save and exit.

serverPort: 8000

serverInterface: '0.0.0.0'

• Restart the parsoid and enable on boot.

systemctl enable parsoid

systemctl restart parsoid