mediawiki

Hi im trying to build a mediawiki extension which requires AJAX calls during editing a page. All I need is to add a new edit button on the edit page which displays a javascript popup editor which in turn makes the appropriate calls. I need to know if it is feasible in Mediawiki, to inject javascrpt code into edit buttons. Any kind of information or leads are welcome! Ok clearly the question is very specific, tht no one cared to answer. so if some one else wants to know how to add custom edit buttons in Mediawiki, this is how I did it I found a Mediawiki help page which asks the user to edit a

EDIT: No JSONP! Yes i know CORS is handled by the server and Yes the server does support it. The issue is on my side. I am trying to use MediaWiki API from the browser. I am sending a GET request through XMLHttpRequest but due to CORS issues it's just not working. I am getting the following message from my browser after it receives the response: XMLHttpRequest cannot load https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=query&list=search&srsearch=Oculus&utf8 . No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin ' http://127.0.0.1:8000 ' is therefore not

I have a list of articles and I want to find the main category of each article. Wikipedia lists its main categories here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Contents/Categories . I am able to find the subcategories of each article using: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=categories&titles=%s&format=xml I also am able to check whether a subcategory is within a category: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Dog&prop=categories&clcategories=Domesticated animals&format=xml This will tell me whether "domesticated animals" is a subcategory of Dog, but this is not

I'd like to syntax highlight Mathematica code on a MediaWiki site. I've already installed the MediaWiki extension SyntaxHighlight GeSHi and verified that it works for other languages. I tried simply putting a Mathematica langauge data file mathematica.php into MediaWiki's extension path wiki/extensions/SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi/geshi , however it didn't correctly highlight a Mathematica code block such as: <syntaxhighlight lang="Mathematica"> (* this is a comment *) List[Sin[x], Cos[x], Tan[x]]; </syntaxhighlight> Any ideas? I do not see Mathematica listed as a supported language at http://qbnz

If I have some xml containing things like the following mediawiki markup: " ...collected in the 12th century, of which [[Alexander the Great]] was the hero, and in which he was represented, somewhat like the British [[King Arthur|Arthur]]" what would be the appropriate arguments to something like: re.findall([[__?__]], article_entry) I am stumbling a bit on escaping the double square brackets, and getting the proper link for text like: [[Alexander of Paris|poet named Alexander]] Here is an example import re pattern = re.compile(r"\[\[([\w \|]+)\]\]") text = "blah blah [[Alexander of Paris|poet