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Add "Preview" and "Cancel" buttons to WikiForum pages where the reply form is present
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Wikitext is hard (no citation needed) and even the most experienced of us make rookie mistakes with it sometimes. Sites generally speaking encourage the use of the preview button...except in WikiForum's case the only available button is "Save reply"! (As seen on this forum thread and basically any forum thread once you're logged in.)

LQT has these buttons (well, "Show preview" as a button and "Cancel" as a link); see TWN's Support page (while logged in as a user w/ sufficient edit rights) for a live example of that. Maybe we could lift some code there?

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ashley created this task.Aug 29 2015, 8:40 PM
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SamanthaNguyen added a comment.Feb 9 2016, 11:26 PM

This function can be enabled by enabling side by side preview in the labs feature subsection of editing in a user's preferences, however it should still be possible without having to enable that. Here's where it's located: http://en.brickimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing

SamanthaNguyen moved this task from Backlog to WikiForum on the Social-Tools board.May 8 2016, 3:07 PM
SamanthaNguyen moved this task from Backlog to Feedback / Suggestions on the WikiForum board.May 8 2016, 4:06 PM
SamanthaNguyen moved this task from Feedback / Suggestions to Feature Request on the WikiForum board.Sep 18 2016, 7:34 PM
SamanthaNguyen added a comment.Jan 23 2017, 7:32 PM

Related tickets: T156055 and T150975

This could be done by hooking onto the WikiEditor preview JavaScript module, jquery.wikiEditor.preview.js. https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-WikiEditor/blob/master/modules/jquery.wikiEditor.preview.js

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