MediaWiki/extensions

Current

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

Planned

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• 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

ArticleFeedback - ( stars of maximum stars ) for reviews

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ArticleFeedback - allows users to rate articles. This could potentially be used for reviews and/or voting

ArticleFeedbackv5 - could be used to collect feedback to a company

• 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.

B

BADI Pages Created Links ( automatically color outgoing links with colors for "exists" and "doesn't exist

• 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.

Back Links Functions ( constructing the voting machinery probably can use at least functions from this

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:BackLinksFunctions - This does what it's name says. The code is ancient, but will be essential reading to anyone developing a voting system where votes are kept in wiki pages

BrokenLinks

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:BrokenLinks

They on BrokenLinks:

Special Page which checks all links in table _externallinks and reports on those that return an HTTP response 4xx or 5xx

Us on BrokenLinks:

Obviously very useful for housekeeping the links to businesses.

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:BucketVoting - The bucket voting extension to mediawiki allows people to distribute a number of votes between a number of options, so they can vote based on how important things are to them. This is known as w:cumulative voting.

C

Common Locale Data Repository

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CLDR - The CLDR extension contains local language names for different languages, countries, and currencies extracted from w:Common Locale Data Repository data.

Useable to fetch proper localized string for countries, areas, languages and currencies

Call - ablility to pass variables to pages

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Call - ability to pass variables to templates to generate dynamic wiki pages

CategoryCloud and CategoryTagCloud - 2 competing w:tag cloud implementations )

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CategoryCloud - Create a w:tag cloud from category data
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CategoryTagCloud - Creates topic clouds from category data

= CategoryIndex - Using keys ( external to articles ) to make category associations =( Parser function )

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CategoryIndex

They on CategoryIndex:

This extensions allows you to create categories of pages where the page is added with key value, which can be displayed on the lists of parties or categories used to select subset of pages from category.

Us on CategoryIndex:

Perhaps this could be utilized to enter datas for many pages in single pages and also propagated to all languages

CategoryIntersection - where are the other set operations ?

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CategoryIntersection - Maintains a table with hash values for category intersections within a page to allow searching category intersections

CategoryOnUpload

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CategoryOnUpload -

They on Extension:CategoryOnUpload:

Dropdown menu when uploading images to add the image to a category

Us on Extension:CategoryOnUpload:

Makes it easier and faster to categorize a file you are uploading to the file upload wiki.

Create_Page (parser function, user interface )

Extension:Create_Page

They on Create_Page:

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Us on Create_Page:

Trivial. Adds a textbox where you can enter the name of the new article. Maybe if chained with #NewArticleTemplates it might provide some ease of use to the end-consumer

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NewArticleTemplates

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:NewArticleTemplates

They on NewArticleTemplates:

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Us on NewArticleTemplates:

Obviously does what it says. Enables per-namespace pre-loadable ( into the edit box ) texts for new articles i.e. we can have a skeleton for creating a new product, brand, company, area, country and NGO etc. no need to copy-paste. Whether the template given for an article can be given if not all things are split into separate namespaces is possible is not know.