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

A

• 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.

B

• 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.
• 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
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:BrokenLinks - Special Page which checks all links in table _externallinks and reports on those that return an HTTP response 4xx or 5xx
• 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

• 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.

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

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

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

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

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CategoryOnUpload - Dropdown menu when uploading images to add the image to a category

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CategoryTagCloud - Creates topic clouds from category data

N

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:NewArticleTemplates - Enables per-namespace pre-loadable texts for new articles i.e. we can have a skeleton for creating a new product or company page.