MediaWiki/extensions

Extensions currently installed on this development wiki. Also applicable to the implementation wiki.

• Extension:SpamBlacklist - regexes against spammers - installed and working.
• Extension:ConfirmEdit - installed and working.

Listing extensions that could be useful for the implementation wiki

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AJAX_Poll - enables embedding AJAX based polls
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AccessPostgres - Enables reading and writing values from/to a postgres database to/from articles
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AmMap - Allows embedding interactive AmMap flash maps
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Approved_Revs - an extension that lets administrators mark a certain revision of a page as "approved".
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Arrays - Allows parser functions that manipulate arrays
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ArticleFeedback - allows users to rate articles. This could potentially be used for reviews and/or voting
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ArticleFeedbackv5 - for collecting user feedback about articles This could potentially be used to collect the feedback which then needs to be delivered to the businesses.
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ArticleToCategory2 - Adds a textbox to category-pages to streamline adding pages to categories
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AuthorProtect - Allows the author of an article to protect it against editing by others. Could be useful for voting pages.he
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AutoCategoryInclude - Checks for categories and includes templates ( without messy wikitext ) into pages based on the categories. Could be very useful for constructing infoboxen on company / product pages.
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AutoLanguage - Displays a page in the language specified in a user preference. Looks very old and maybe not up-to-date but the source should be interesting reading for anyone looking to implement many languages in one wiki.
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:BADI_Pages_Created_Links - Allows display of links in toolbox to other wiki or wiki-like sites whereby links will be colored differently depending on whether the page there has been created yet or not. Status determined by response code or Last-Modified HTTP HEAD requests.