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== Interesting Extensions ==

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<li>[[mw:Extension:QuickLink]] should be updated. It provides an easy way to link to other articles while editing.

<li>[[mw:Extension:TitleKey]] ([https://git.wikimedia.org/summary/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FTitleKey.git|git] ) is written by Brion Vibber and offers interesting capability that is used on some/all? MW sites. Also, since it interacts with the MW internal search, it's a good example of how to create an extension that hooks into the search functionality. The TitleKey extension provides a case-insensitive title prefix search. It uses a separate table for the keys, so if it works cleanly it can be deployed without an expensive rebuild of core tables, and dumped when Wikimedia gets a nicer backend through Extension:LuceneSearch (pre 1.13) or Extension:MWSearch (1.13+). Note that MediaWiki has stopped using LuceneSearch and is now using [[mw:Extension:CirrusSearch]] which interfaces to [[wp:Elasticsearch]] (which is based on Lucene) on the backend.

For the average site administrator, the benefit of this extension is that it allows search suggestions (e.g. from Opensearch API) to be case-insensitive.

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