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This page serves to inventory and assess the mix of extensions that are in use for the DCS wiki:

: Code for the DCS extensions is in the [https://github.com/debtcompliance/mediawiki/tree/master/extensions private Debt Compliance GitHub repo]

The ultimate goal is two-fold: not only understand 'What does it do?', but also understand related questions like:

* "How critical is it? (Used all the time / occasionally, but still essential / never)"

* "Can or should this extension be replaced (with a more widely supported "regular" extension) to improve maintainability, features, security and lower cost?

Of course some features or functions are not really "user-centric" but might provide security or other features important to stakeholders like "Owner" or "Developer". For example: The DcsSkin provides a look and feel that is consistent with the company brand and makes the user experience more seamless while navigating between Website / Rails App / Wiki.

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ResourceLoaderStartUpModule; as module cache is not fragmented by protocol.) The mw.cookie (JavaScript) code is syntactically and functionally similar to the server-side cookie API (`[https://doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/master/php/classWebRequest.html#aa952980c6053a1e23c3ce673eb0f1d6d WebRequest#getCookie]` and `[https://doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/master/php/classWebResponse.html#a92cfd006677a1d96c3cee8ee3edcccd3 WebResponse#setcookie]`).

It loads some javascript (through resource loader). That [https://github.com/debtcompliance/mediawiki/blob/master/extensions/DcsCommon/modules/dcscommon.js javascript] could more easily be maintained as MediaWiki:Common.js? although there may be load order issues. The JS defines like-named methods with varying features. E.g. <blockquote>Check if the passed page title string is in a loan namespace, returns boolean. Note that this function only checks if the namespace is in the list of all loan namespaces, it doesn't do any checks for whether the namespace is in use, or whether the title is in a DCS_TOC article like the DcsCommon::isLoanPage PHP function.</blockquote>

The 'common' extension creates a singleton instance of the DcsCommon class that does a bunch of things according to [https://github.com/debtcompliance/mediawiki/wiki/Extensions#dcscommon notes in the wiki]. The permissions shouldn't really be hidden away in the class code. They should simply be in LocalSettings.php. onUserGetRights() is a big function. The 'self:cache' is mostly called in connection with 'isLocal'. Any true caching should just be offloaded to APC and memcache. Although there is no 'dcs' table in the database on dcsTemporary, the [https://github.com/debtcompliance/mediawiki/blob/master/extensions/DcsCommon/DcsCommon.php#L653 setData()] method is used throughout the codebase so should update [https://github.com/debtcompliance/mediawiki/wiki/Extensions#dcscommon wiki] about where this data is stored.

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There are functions in the code for:

* Return a list of the currently running jobs sorted by start time.

* Add a job to the 'history' list of jobs executed (list is limited to 10 items).

** UpgradeAttachments

According to [https://github.com/debtcompliance/mediawiki/wiki/Extensions#dcsjobadmin the documentation], it allows you to manage jobs. But, I'm wondering how much this is actually used? The job queue should be run automatically by cron, and the administrative user shouldn't have to worry about it really. If there is a usage pattern where job execution is time sensitive, there is a use for an Admin function; but I'm curious about the usage patterns that create large or numerous jobs. Otherwise, set wgJobRunRate to zero, and put it into cron `0 0 * * * root /usr/bin/php /var/www/example.com/www/w/maintenance/runJobs.php > /var/log/runJobs.log 2>&1`

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| For testing, you can access /wiki/extensions/dcs/DcsSingleSignOn/testLogin.php

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== References ==