MediaWiki/Extensions

Installed Extensions

See Special:Version

Interesting Extensions

1. mw:Extension:QuickLink should be updated. It provides an easy way to link to other articles while editing.
2. mw:Extension:TitleKey ([1] ) 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.

See also

MediaWiki/Bundles

Notes on Installed Extensions

Add Images

An extension found at wikia (also called WikiaMiniUpload?), it allows you to add images from Flickr, the web, and those already uploaded to your local wiki. It also adds a new button to the editor (a feature lacking in the standard editor). Video and instructions at http://help.wikia.com/wiki/Help:Add_Images

DataTable2

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DataTable2 essentially does the converse of Semantic Media Wiki. Instead of storing data on multiple pages, which can then be queried and displayed, this extension allows for saving data in a single (or multiple) page and reusing that data on multiple pages.

Interwiki

The Interwiki Extension has been added which makes it easy to manipulate the interwiki table. http://mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpecialInterwiki But what is the Interwiki table you say? The Interwiki table sets up internal namespaces making it convenient for authors to create links to other wikis. For example, you can link to a Wikipedia article with the following syntax:

[[WikiPedia:Thomas_Jefferson]] .

There is a long list of wikis and sites already included in the Interwiki table.

Semantic Bundle

A great way to get all the goodness of SMW in an easy way.

VisualEditor

git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/p/mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor.git

More Info

See the changelog at NbptGnus:Current_events

Application Programming Interface

Semantic MediaWiki = See Metadata