robchur wrote:

I don't quite understand what's meant here, or what this would be used for.

If you load the article, it has "edit" tab and when you click on it, you'll get
the regular editing page.

The idea is, if the article had this magic word inside, then when you click on
"edit" tab, it would show some information (= the content of <pagename> in
parameter) above editing window.

Therefore the edit tab link would be
/w/index.php?title=<article>&action=edit&editintro=<pagename_from_magic_word_parameter>
instead of current
/w/index.php?title=<article>&action=edit

robchur wrote:

Example applications? There might be a more appropriate means of doing this.

rockmfr wrote:

A question much like this one came up at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29&diff=218485159 . Assuming you have a wiki that isn't prone to abuse, a general solution to this problem that would not require changes to MediaWiki would involve something like this:

1. Create Template:EDITINTRO with the following contents:

<div id="editintro-name" style="display:none">{{{1|}}}</div>

2. Add something like this to your wiki's common.js:

addOnloadHook(function() {

if (document.getElementById('editintro-name') && document.getElementById('ca-edit')) {
  var editLinks = document.getElementById('ca-edit').getElementsByTagName('a')
  if (editLinks.length > 0) {
    editLinks[0].href += '&editintro=' + document.getElementById('editintro-name').innerHTML
  }
}

});

3. Create a template containing your editintro (e.g., Template:Foobar).

4. Place {{EDITINTRO|Template:Foobar}} on any page.

• This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 15102 ***