Editor
You may be looking for:
Current
Editing tool | Screenshot | Year | Platform | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
the default MediaWiki editor (2003 wikitext editor), which is an HTML <textarea>
|
2003 | Desktop and mobile | This does not have a toolbar. It can be seen when JavaScript is disabled, or when "Enable the editing toolbar" is disabled in Preferences. | |
WikiEditor (2010 wikitext editor) | 2010 | Desktop | This can be seen when "Enable the editing toolbar" is enabled in Preferences. | |
VisualEditor | 2012 | Desktop and mobile | A rich-text WYSIWYG editing system | |
2017 wikitext editor | 2017 | Desktop | A mode within Extension:VisualEditor to edit wiki markup. | |
Proofread Page | 2006 | Desktop | Used at the Wikisources | |
WikEd | 2006 | Desktop | An entirely volunteer-supported wikitext editor. This is generally run as a gadget or user script, but it is run as an extension on some non-Wikimedia wikis. | |
CodeMirror | 2017 | Desktop and mobile | This is used inside WikiEditor or the 2017 editor when syntax highlighting is enabled ( ). | |
CodeEditor | 2011 | Desktop | This is used for editing JavaScript and other code pages. | |
MobileFrontend 's wikitext editor | 2013 | Mobile | ||
ContentTranslation | 2014 | Desktop | ||
Structured Discussions (previously known as Flow) | 2013 | Desktop and mobile | Structured Discussions supports wikitext and visual modes. | |
New Topic Tool | 2020 | Desktop and mobile | An inline form for starting new talk page discussions. It is equipped with both Visual and Source modes.
| |
Reply Tool | 2020 | Desktop and mobile | A tool for responding to specific talk page comments. Comments are signed and indented automatically. It is equipped with both Visual and Source modes.
| |
Editor in the Android app | 2014 | Mobile | ||
Editor in the iOS app | 2014 | Mobile | ||
TemplateData editor | 2014 | Desktop | ||
Wikivoyage Listing Editor | 2013 | Desktop | Specialized JavaScript-based editing tool for inserting one of several templates at Wikivoyage | |
Convenient Discussions | 2020 | Desktop | A volunteer-developed tool for discussions. Available as a gadget on some wikis. |
Former
Editing tool | Screenshot | Years | Platform | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
The 2006 JavaScript "classic" editor (2006 wikitext editor), Manual:EditPage.php | 2006–2018 | Desktop | This was seen when the "showtoolbar" preference was enabled from 2006–2010. After that, it was only shown to users who disabled the "enhanced-toolbar" (2010 editor) preference. This editor was removed in MediaWiki 1.32. A similar toolbar is available as a volunteer-supported local gadget at some wikis. | |
MobileFrontend's original wikitext editor | 2012–2014 | Mobile | This was a mobile-specific set of modifications to the 2003 desktop wikitext editor. |
See also
- Extension:CharInsert – not part of any editor, but appears underneath some editing environments