XUL4Wikipedia

Pierre Lindenbaum PhD 2008

XUL4Wikipedia creates an extension on the fly for firefox. This add-on appends some custom items in the contextual popup menu when editing an article in wikipedia. Each of those items is used to insert a custom text in the textarea of the edited article, for example a you won't have to find, copy and paste your favorite Template:Infobox Person, this template will now be always available in your menu. Your cutsom XUL4Wikipedia is generated using a simple XML syntax with two elements:

<menu> is the root of the document. A <menu> contains some other <menu> or some <menu-item>. A <menu> might have an attribute label
<menu-item> is the child of a <menu>. A menu-item might have an attribute label. A menu-item contains the text to be inserted in wikipedia.

<menu>
<menu-item label="Citation">
{{Citation
 | last =
 | first =
 | author-link =
 | last2 =
 | first2 =
 | author2-link =
 | publication-date =
 | date =
 | year =
 | title =
 | edition =
 | volume =
 | series =
 | publication-place =
 | place =
 | publisher =
 | pages =
 | page =
 | id =
 | isbn =
 | doi =
 | oclc =
 | url =
 | accessdate =
}}
</menu-item>

<menu label="People">
	<menu label="Images">
		<menu-item label="Man">[[Image:Replace_this_image_male.svg]]</menu-item>
		<menu-item label="Woman">[[Image:Replace_this_image_female.svg]]</menu-item>
		<menu-item label="Nobel Prize">[[Image:Nobel prize medal.svg|20px]]</menu-item>
	</menu>
	<menu-item label="Birth Date">{{Birth date|YYYY|M|D}}</menu-item>
	<menu-item label="Death Date">{{Death date|YYYY|M|D}}</menu-item>
	<menu-item label="Person">
{{Infobox Person
|name          = 
|image         = Replace_this_image_male.svg
|image_size    = 150px
|caption       = 
|birth_name    = 
|birth_date    = 
|birth_place   = 
|death_date    = 
|death_place   = 
|death_cause   = 
|resting_place = 
|resting_place_coordinates = 
|residence     = 
|nationality   = 
|other_names   = 
|known_for     = 
|education     = 
|employer      = 
|occupation    = 
|home_town     = 
|title         = 
|salary        = 
|networth      = 
|height        = 
|weight        = 
|term          = 
|predecessor   = 
|successor     = 
|party         = 
|boards        = 
|religion      = 
|spouse        = 
|partner       = 
|children      = 
|parents       = 
|relatives     = 
|signature     = 
|website       = 
|footnotes     = 
}}
	</menu-item>
	<menu-item label="Scientist">
{{Infobox Scientist
|name              = 
|box_width         =
|image             =Replace_this_image_male.svg 
|image_width       =150px
|caption           = 
|birth_date        = 
|birth_place       = 
|death_date        = 
|death_place       = 
|residence         = 
|citizenship       = 
|nationality       = 
|ethnicity         = 
|field             = 
|work_institutions = 
|alma_mater        = 
|doctoral_advisor  = 
|doctoral_students = 
|known_for         = 
|author_abbrev_bot = 
|author_abbrev_zoo = 
|influences        = 
|influenced        = 
|prizes            = 
|religion          = 
|footnotes         = 
|signature         =
}}
	</menu-item>
</menu>

<menu label="Countries">
 <menu-item label="Switzerland">[[Image:Flag of Switzerland.svg|20px|]] [[Switzerland]]</menu-item>
</menu>

</menu>

Save the file to your desktop. Then, open up a fresh firefox browser, and position it so you can drag the downloaded file into the main area of firefox (it can be dropped anywhere, and the cursor will slightly change). This should initiate the install of the extension

xul4wikipedia : Compiled by pierre on 2008-03-17 at 06:20:13 in /home/pierre/lindenb