MediaWiki: Access hidden actions

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Mediawiki wasn't really designed for restricting access to its data. That's good.
Unfortunately, some admins still try to fake security mechanisms by simply hiding the links to certain actions like "edit", "history", etc...

Using Firefox, so called "bookmarklets" offer you a really convenient way of accessing actions which are simply hidden.

Create a new bookmark and enter the following location:

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javascript:location.href+="?action=edit";

This adds the string "?action=edit" to the currently loaded URL. So if you're on a mediawiki based site, opening that bookmark will put the page into edit mode.



I know that this is absolutely trivial, but I'm still writing it down so I won't forget the bookmarklet syntax again.