[Bf-docboard] Cool features for wiki editors: (1) wiki search engine in firefox

[mindrones]

Hello,

I'd like to put down here a couple of things that help me working on the 
wiki, might be useful for others :)

I'll split in 2 mails because it came out a long mail.

MEDIAWIKIs SEARCH ENGINE ADDON AUTOMATICALLY PUSHED IN FIREFOX BY 
MEDIAWIKI SITES
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If you use Firefox, you should know the search engine near the address 
bar. Usually I add custom search engines by going at
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=&cat=4%2C0
or looking into
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/

While you can find wikipedia in many languages, you will see there isn't 
a search engine for blender wiki, and neither for mediawiki.org.

Well, there's no need, that's why!

Do a search in Blender wiki and then click on the search engine bar 
icon: in the pulldown menu you will now see that mediawiki has pushed a 
"Add Blender Wiki" to your search engines. Click on it, and from now on 
you will be able to search in Blender Wiki without going at wiki.blender.org

This applies to *ANY* modern mediawiki site out there, which is very 
useful.

Asked and confirmed by the #mediawiki guys, this is a feature of 
mediawiki, not firefox (infact this doesn't happen after searching on 
non-mediawiki sites).

This is useful for wiki editors too:

- do a search in mediawiki.org,
- accept your new "mediawiki" search engine,
- from now on, if you have doubts about mediawiki just search in there 
without hunting mediawiki.org anymore.

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Hope this helps :)

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Regards,
Luca

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