Extension inventory

This page serves to inventory and assess the mix of extensions that are in use for the DCS wiki. Code for "regular" extensions are hosted on Gerrit at the WMF (which is also mirrored to GitHub) with documentation at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki. Code for the DCS extensions is in the private Debt Compliance GitHub repo; and the Organic Design extensions are in the 'MediaWiki' tree of the Organic Design GitHub repo.

"Regular" Extensions

Extension	Used by WMF projects?	What does it do?	Maintenance / Last release	Used by Meza	Used by QualityBox	Alternative Extension
CirrusSearch	YES	Extends the core search for MediaWiki to be able to use Elasticsearch	Continuous	Yes	Yes
Cite	Bundled	Provides <references /> and <ref></ref> tags	Continuous	Yes	Yes
CiteThisPage	Bundled	Provides Cite This Page Special Page.	Continuous	No	Yes	UNUSED
ConfirmEdit	Bundled	Adds CAPTCHAs for page saves and other user actions to protect against spam and password-guessing	Continuous	No	Yes	UNUSED
Elastica	YES	Base Elasticsearch functionality by providing the Elastica library; required by CirrusSearch.	Continuous	Yes	Yes
Gadgets	Bundled	Provides a way for users to pick JavaScript or CSS based "gadgets" that other wiki users provide.	Continuous	No	Yes	UNUSED
ImageMap	Bundled	The ImageMap extension allows clickable image maps.	Continuous	Yes	Yes	UNUSED
InputBox	Bundled	The InputBox extension adds already created HTML forms to wiki pages.	Continuous	Yes	Yes	UNUSED
Interwiki	Bundled	The Interwiki extension adds the "Special:Interwiki" page to MediaWiki, to view and edit the interwiki table, and a log of any actions made with it.	Continuous	Yes	Yes	UNUSED
LocalisationUpdate	Bundled	allows to update the localizations for MediaWiki messages at any time, without needing to upgrade the MediaWiki software.	Continuous	No	No	UNUSED
Nuke	Bundled	The Nuke extension makes it possible for sysops to mass delete pages.	Continuous	No	Yes	For whatever reason, the DCSNuke extension intercepts page requests for the Nuke special page. DCSNuke has no added functionality. The DCSNuke code is roughly equivalent to the REL1_20 release of Nuke; and the current Nuke extension offers more functionality. I thought that potentially the reason to use a cloned extension was to totally customize the interface language strings, but that's not the case. Remove DCSNuke.
ParserFunctions	Bundled?	What does it do?	Maintenance / Last release	Meza?	QB?	UNUSED?
PdfHandler	Bundled?	What does it do?	Maintenance / Last release	Meza?	QB?	UNUSED?
PipeEscape	Bundled?	What does it do?	Maintenance / Last release	Meza?	QB?	UNUSED?
Poem	Bundled?	What does it do?	Maintenance / Last release	Meza?	QB?	UNUSED?
Renameuser	Bundled?	What does it do?	Maintenance / Last release	Meza?	QB?	UNUSED?
SimpleMathJax	Bundled?	What does it do?	Maintenance / Last release	Meza?	QB?	UNUSED?
SpamBlacklist	Bundled?	What does it do?	Maintenance / Last release	Meza?	QB?	UNUSED?
SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi	Bundled?	What does it do?	Maintenance / Last release	Meza?	QB?	UNUSED?
TitleBlacklist	Bundled?	What does it do?	Maintenance / Last release	Meza?	QB?	UNUSED?
WikiEditor	Bundled?	What does it do?	Maintenance / Last release	Meza?	QB?	UNUSED?

Custom DCS Extensions

Extension	Purpose	Last release	Confirm used? + notes
DcsAmmendments	Adds ammendments section to DCS loan pages. Sysop (only) can add/delete/edit/re-order (up/down) the ammendments; UX implemented in JavaScript. Extends the API with the same functions. Adds new log type: amendments; and logs all actions.	Jan 2018 - new sort functionality ready for testing	yes
DcsBaskets	purpose?	release?	yes
DcsCommon	https://github.com/debtcompliance/mediawiki/wiki/Extensions#dcscommon	Cookie handling was added on June 14, 2017. The code (the cookie.js part) is from a project called js-cookie. So, we could update that code. Or, we could replace it with internal functions so we don't rely on 3rd party code. See the API documentation for mw.cookie (Does not use the $wgCookieSecure configuration variable since 'detect' could not work with 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 (`WebRequest#getCookie` and `WebResponse#setcookie`). https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Hooks/UserSetCookies is deprecated as of REL1_27, and session-handling extensions should be subclassing CookieSessionProvider. $wgSessionProviders	The 'common' extension creates a singleton instance of the DcsCommon class that does a bunch of things according to notes in the wiki. The permissions shouldn't really be hidden away in the class code. They should simply be in LocalSettings.php. 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 setData() method is used throughout the codebase so should update wiki about where this data is stored.
DcsComplianceChecklist	purpose?	release?	yes
DcsComplianceChecklist2	purpose?	release?	only used in the checktest subdomain, or when `wgLocalTesting`; intention is to use a timestamp condition
DcsEmailLink	purpose?	release?	yes
DcsExportTerms	purpose?	release?	yes
DcsFindTitle	purpose?	release?	yes
DcsGroupAdmin	purpose?	release?	yes
DcsJobAdmin	purpose?	release?	yes
DcsLoanPages	purpose?	release?	yes
DcsNamespaces	purpose?	release?	yes
DcsNuke	purpose?	release?	yes. REPLACE with standard Nuke extension
DcsSearch	purpose?	release?	yes
DcsSection	purpose?	release?	yes
DcsSection2	purpose?	release?	NO
DcsSingleSignOn	purpose?	release?	yes
DcsSkin	purpose?	release?	usage?
DcsTitle	purpose?	release?	yes
DcsUploadedFiles	purpose?	release?	yes
DcsUserDisable	purpose?	release?	yes
DcsWatchComments	purpose?	release?	yes

Organic Design extensions

1. Accordian
2. AddLinkClasses
3. AjaxComments
4. ArticleProperties
5. Bliki
6. CodeTidy
7. CurrentPages
8. CurrentUsers
9. Download
10. EmailPage
11. EmailToWiki
12. EximMailList
13. ExtraMagic
14. FaceBook
15. FileAttach
16. FormMailer
17. HighlightJS
18. InterWiki
19. jQueryUpload
20. jQueryUpload2
21. Ligmincha
22. LinkAttributes
23. LinkTree
24. NukeDPL
25. ODMaps
26. OrganicDesign
27. PdfBook
28. RecentActivity
29. SimpleCalendar
30. TransformChanges
31. TreeAndMenu
32. UserLoginLog
33. UserProfiles
34. Variables
35. WebSocket
36. WikiaAdmin
37. WikiaInfo

Special:Version

This is what you'll see reported by the "Special:Version" page of the wiki

Installed skins

Skin	Version	License	Description	Authors
Cologne Blue	–	GPL-2.0+	A lightweight skin with minimal formatting	Lee Daniel Crocker and others
DcsSkin	3.0.2, 2016-07-01	Copyright © 2007-2018 Debt Compliance Services	DCS skin desgined to match the QAR app	Aran Dunkley
Modern	–	GPL-2.0+	A blue/gray theme with sidebar and top bar. Derived from MonoBook	River Tarnell and others
MonoBook	–	GPL-2.0+	The classic MediaWiki skin since 2004, named after the black-and-white photo of a book in the page background	Gabriel Wicke and others
Vector	–	GPL-2.0+	Modern version of MonoBook with fresh look and many usability improvements	Trevor Parscal, Roan Kattouw and others

Installed extensions

Special pages
Extension	Version	License	Description	Authors
DcsGroupAdmin	1.2.0, 2015-06-26	Copyright © 2007-2018 Debt Compliance Services	A special page for managing DCS groups and access	Aran Dunkley
DcsJobAdmin	4.0.0, 2017-06-28	Copyright © 2007-2018 Debt Compliance Services	A special page for managing DCS jobs that run in the background	Aran Dunkley
DcsSearch	2.4.2, 2017-01-27	Copyright © 2007-2018 Debt Compliance Services	Renders the search dropdown with favourite terms list, and allows users to track the pages they've visited from search results of their favorite terms	Aran Dunkley
DcsUploadedFiles	1.3.0, 2017-07-08	Copyright © 2007-2018 Debt Compliance Services	A special page for listing the files uploaded to loan pages	Aran Dunkley
EmailPage	2.4.4, 2017-04-26	GPL-2.0+	Send rendered HTML page to an e-mail address or list of addresses using phpmailer	Aran Dunkley
jQueryUpload	1.4.5, 2016-08-28	GNU General Public Licence 2.0 or later	Allows files to be uploaded to the wiki or to specific pages using the jQueryFileUpload module	Aran Dunkley and Sebastian Tschan
Nuke	1.2.0	GPL-2.0+	Gives administrators the ability to mass delete pages	Brion Vibber and Jeroen De Dauw
Parser hooks
Extension	Version	License	Description	Authors
DcsComplianceChecklist	1.24.2, 2016-05-10	Copyright © 2007-2018 Debt Compliance Services	Creates the #ComplianceChecklist parser-function	Aran Dunkley
ExtraMagic	3.8.0, 2015-010-04	GNU General Public Licence 2.0 or later	Adds useful variables and parser functions	Aran Dunkley
ParserFunctions	1.6.0	GPL-2.0	Enhance parser with logical functions	Tim Starling, Robert Rohde, Ross McClure and Juraj Simlovic
PdfBook	1.5.2, 2017-05-15	GNU General Public Licence 2.0 or later	pdfbook-desc	Aran Dunkley
Pipe Escape	2.0.0. (a36d2d6)23:54, 4 May 2016	GPL-2.0+	Parser function #! for when you want a pipe character to be just a pipe character	David M. Sledge and Purodha Blissenbach
TreeAndMenu	4.2.1, 2016-05-24	GNU General Public Licence 2.0 or later	Adds #tree and #menu parser functions which contain bullet-lists to be rendered as collapsible treeviews or dropdown menus. The treeviews use the FancyTree JavaScript tree menu, and the dropdown menus use Son of Suckerfish	Aran Dunkley
Other
Extension	Version	License	Description	Authors
AjaxComments	2.7.2, 2017-03-08	GNU General Public Licence 2.0 or later	Add comments to the end of the page that can be edited, deleted or replied to instead of using the talk pages	Aran Dunkley
CirrusSearch	0.2 (dcb0cf9)21:22, 4 May 2016	GPL-2.0+	Elasticsearch-powered search for MediaWiki	Nik Everett, Chad Horohoe, Erik Bernhardson and others
DcsAmmendments	1.1.0, 2018-01-20	Copyright © 2015-2018 Debt Compliance Services	Adds ammendments section to DCS loan pages	Aran Dunkley
DcsBaskets	1.4.2, 2016-08-08	Copyright © 2007-2018 Debt Compliance Services	Allows fields in Baskets table to be updated via AJAX	Aran Dunkley
DcsCommon	5.1.1, 2018-01-25	Copyright © 2007-2018 Debt Compliance Services	DCS common functionality	Aran Dunkley
DcsEmailLink	0.0.1, 2017-07-12	Copyright © 2017-2018 Debt Compliance Services	Adds a new "EmailLink" action which can match a title case-insensitvely	Aran Dunkley
DcsExportTerms	2.0.1, 2017-03-20	Copyright © 2007-2018 Debt Compliance Services	Add an export action to the that allows terms to be downloaded in CSV format	Aran Dunkley
DcsFindTitle	1.1.0, 2017-01-30	Copyright © 2007-2018 Debt Compliance Services	Adds a new "find" action which can match a title case-insensitvely	Aran Dunkley
DcsLoanPages	2.5.2, 2016-05-17	Copyright © 2007-2018 Debt Compliance Services	Adds breadcrumbs, comments and backlinks to DCS loan pages	Aran Dunkley
DcsNamespaces	2.5.0, 2015-12-12	Copyright © 2007-2018 Debt Compliance Services	A special page for administering loan documents in their own namepsaces	Aran Dunkley
DcsNuke	1.2.2, 2017-01-19	Copyright © 2007-2018 Debt Compliance Services	Gives administrators the ability to mass delete pages	Aran Dunkley
DcsSection2	2.0.0, 2018-01-12	Copyright © 2007-2018 Debt Compliance Services	DCS article section handling extension - new version 2 with individual sub-section article support removed	Aran Dunkley
DcsSingleSignOn	5.1.5, 2017-07-14	Copyright © 2007-2018 Debt Compliance Services	Allows the Rails application to manage the login, logout and session expiry for the DCS wikis	Aran Dunkley
DcsTitle	1.0.0, 2017-02-13	Copyright © 2017-2018 Debt Compliance Services	Creates a new DCS-specific Title class that includes TOC info such as sortkey, next and prev	Aran Dunkley
DcsUserDisable	1.3.0, 2015-06-26	Copyright © 2007-2018 Debt Compliance Services	Adds acount enable/disable links to the user list	Aran Dunkley
DcsWatchComments	1.4, 2017-03-09	Copyright © 2007-2018 Debt Compliance Services	Removes default watchlist functionality and makes all loan comment articles auto-watched	Aran Dunkley
Elastica	1.3.0.0 (4607acf)22:52, 4 May 2016	GPL-2.0+	Base Elasticsearch functionality for other extensions by providing Elastica library	Nik Everett and Chad Horohoe
WikiEditor	0.5.0	GPL-2.0+	Provides an extendable wikitext editing interface and many feature-providing modules	Derk-Jan Hartman, Trevor Parscal, Roan Kattouw, Nimish Gautam and Adam Miller

WikiMedia Foundation = the organization which runs various projects including Wikipedia.org

Cascading Style Sheets = A technology that deals with the presentation of content on the web

HyperText Markup Language = structured text that uses logical links (hyperlinks) between nodes containing text.

Application Programming Interface

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML = A means to exchange data with a server without loading a whole new page.