Planned Extensions: Difference between revisions

AntiSpam & Maintanence

Done

These extensions are now installed as seen on http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Special:Version

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Admin_Links adds usable page for wiki admins into special
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AntiBot

BB2 works, yet needs to be verified if properly

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Bad_Behavior seems simple yet complicated - need further analysis, seems quite recommended

download http://bad-behavior.ioerror.us/download/ install http://bad-behavior.ioerror.us/documentation/mediawiki/ BB2ext works, yet needs to be verified if properly

• http://www.umasswiki.com/wiki/UMassWiki:Bad_Behavior_2_Extended adds Bad Behaviour page into special pages for users with block rights

BB2extended FAILs to work for some reason,i suspect wrong command or DB used "wfFetchRow($result, DB_SLAVE)"
new workaround: http://blog.ideaday.de/max/2011/07/mediawiki-1-17-and-bad-behaviour/ (incomplete: covers only one function)
old workaround: (needs DatabaseFunctions.php from 1.16.5 mediaWiki and applies mainly to BB2Extended) http://smithsrus.com/getting-the-bad-behavior-extension-to-work-with-mediawiki-1-17/ note: Bad Behaviour 2 exists also for vBulletin 3 and 4 (as officially supported module) and for Wordpress

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:BrokenLinks manual edit needed (DONE) adds http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Special:BrokenLinks , similar to external tool http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dispenser/Link_checker
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CategoryWatch
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CleanChanges easier to read recent changes, example: http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:RecentChanges
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ExpandTemplates
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ListTransclusions
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LookupUser
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Nuke
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Recent_Changes_Cleanup
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RegexFunctions
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Replace_Text very useful adds http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Special:ReplaceText page for mass editing)
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Renameuser
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SimpleAntiSpam
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpamBlacklist can be set to use black/whitelist from other sources, e.g. mediaWiki http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpamBlacklist#Examples , http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spam_blacklist
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TitleBlacklist can be set to use black/whitelist from other sources, e.g. mediaWiki http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Title_Blacklist#Multiple_blacklist_sources , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Titleblacklist
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:User_Merge_and_Delete
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WatchSubpages

Disabled

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MassEditRegex Disabled due to exhausting all available memory

the MassEditRegex only seems to be able to handle round about 30 pages at once. is it possible to apply more memory to PHP as this could be the problem here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MassEditRegex#Bugs_.2F_Known_Issues
replaced with Replace_Text extension

Simple install

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

empty for now

Complex install

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AbuseFilter Needs AntiSpoof extension + additional filters http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AntiSpoof additional sets http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AntiSpoof/Equivalence_sets
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CheckUser quite important to be able check details about user including IPs etc.
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EditWarning or http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AjaxShowEditors
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FlaggedRevs
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GlobalUserrights global groups management
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpamRegex
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Tasks
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WhosOnline

Beta versions

quite useful ones yet still beta state Check_Spambots works, yet needs to be verified if properly

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Check_Spambots NEEDED!,for starter lets use these lists for blocking 1,2,3,4,5,6,11 (1(API obtained),2,6 still needs API/registration)
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Configure configuration/maintenance
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ContactPage
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Contributors
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CreateRedirect
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DeleteBatch
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GlobalBlocking
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Maintenance configuration/maintenance
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RegexParserFunctions
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ReplaceSet
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UserLoginLog

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Lockout logs out banned user by terminating his sessions Note: In MediaWiki 1.16 and later, use $wgBlockDisablesLogin instead.
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FileCheck prevents duplicate uploads, since 1.13 part of mediaWiki core

Special Install

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmAccount only in case of overhelming spam, ensures someone must confirm new accounts
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Recent_Activity_Notify email notification about recent events, usable if things go out of hand often
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SimpleSecurity there may be specific security issues and implications with this extension, too risky atm.
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TorBlock in case http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network) is abused for account creation this will help against
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TrustedXFF the list from mediaWiki is not available, otherwise would be useful against not trusted http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Forwarded-For
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UploadBlacklist in case someone starts spamming BIKI with uploads or malicious uploads this could be used to create SHA1 blacklist

Account creation

Done

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:NewSignupPage improves sign-up page

as mentioned here http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:NewSignupPage#Interface_messages there 4 msg are neded to be added, as explained here http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Localisation#Adding_new_messages

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Minimum_Name_Length three characters as minimum
• http://code.google.com/intl/cs-CZ/apis/recaptcha/docs/mediawiki.html reCaptcha for mediaWiki

Simple install

empty for now

Complex install

special purpose

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Facebook
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenID
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VBulletin/Users_Integration comes handy when we will link together BIForum accounts with BIKI accounts

Beta versions

quite useful ones yet still beta state

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

Special Install

helps in case of overhelming spam, throttles amount of users per period etc.

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

Parser Hooks

Done

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CategoryTests
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CategoryTree uses AJAX
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cite/Cite.php
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CreateBox
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DPLforum
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DynamicPageList_(Wikimedia)
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EmailAddressImage turns email addresses into image to protect from email harvesting
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:IconLink
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ImageMap
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:InputBox
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:JSpoiler
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Labeled_Section_Transclusion
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ParserFunctions $wgPFEnableStringFunctions is set to TRUE to provide functionality of http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:StringFunctions
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Poem
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi highlighting is must addition improving BIKI

Simple install

empty for now

Complex install

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Math quite useful
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EasyTimeline ultra-complex install http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EasyTimeline/installation

Beta versions

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RSS too experimental, lets wait for more stable update
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SimpleFeed
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ToggleDisplay
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiEditor

Media Handlers

Done

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

Simple install

empty for now

Complex install

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OggHandler
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PdfHandler allows viewing PDF as pictures

Beta versions

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FlashMP3

Search

Done

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:BypassSearch NOT working properly - DISABLED
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GoToCategory
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Multi-Category_Search

Simple install

empty for now

Simple install but more nice-to-have

Complex install

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TitleKey
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MWSearch needs http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Lucene-search,Lucene-search daemon needs to be running on host

Beta versions

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:QuickLink
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SphinxSearch needs linux install of http://sphinxsearch.com/docs/current.html#installing

Special install

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Google_Analytics_Integration
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Google_Custom_Search_Engine
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UniversalSuggester
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GoogleSearch not working

Language & Translation

Simple install

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CLDR
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:I18nTags
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LocalisationUpdate extension can update the localizations for MediaWiki messages at any time, without needing to upgrade the MediaWiki software

Beta versions

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

Complex install

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AutoLanguage needs http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:StubManager
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MultiLanguageManager
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Translate more http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:Installation

Other

Done

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Assert_Edit
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CharInsert
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:BreadCrumbs
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UploadWizard

Simple install

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection for printing and export
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PageAttachment
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Validator
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VariablesExtension

empty for now

Simple install but more nice-to-have

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WebChat empty for now

Complex install

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ApiExplorer
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SoftwareVersion needs to be edited from shoutWiki to mediaWiki
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MultiUpload usable next to already installed UploadWizard for non-media files

Beta versions

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Pdf_Export_Dompdf
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:BreadCrumbs2 either different or expanding version of the v1 one
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenGraphMeta

Nice To Have

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ProtectSite
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DismissableSiteNotice
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:NewUserMessage
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CategorySuggest
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ImportFreeImages
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RandomSelection
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RandomImage
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RandomText
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Gadgets
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Description2
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Asksql
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FCKeditor_%28by_FCKeditor_and_Wikia%29 quite powerful editor but still beta
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Checkpoint
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TopTenPages
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PageNotice

Semantics related

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Forms complex http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Forms/Download_and_installation

read http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_MediaWiki

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Forms_Inputs
• http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Semantic_Result_Formats
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FrequentPatternTagCloud
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MetavidWiki
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Halo_Extension
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_Bundle quite rich package of extensions for semantic

Sources

Unformatted

From http://blog.fedecarg.com/2008/03/08/20-mediawiki-extensions-you-should-be-using:

• SimpleFeed listed above as beta
• VideoFlashi
• Tasks listed above as complex, TBD
• ContactPage listed above as beta
• RenameUser
• CheckUser listed above as complex, TBD

From http://arnomane.wordpress.com/2007/06/27/mediawiki-tricks-2-essential-extensions:

• Newuserlog already part of core mediaWiki
• Renameuser
• ConfirmEdit
• ParserFunctions

From http://serverfault.com/questions/120589/useful-extensions-for-mediawiki:

• PDF export listed above as beta
• syntax highlight
• Simple security listed above as special, too risky
• BreadCrumbs

Maybe some from wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Version

Very popular wiki pages like:

• League of Legends wikia: http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Version
• StarTrek Online wiki: http://www.stowiki.org/Special:Version
• Memory Alpha: http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Special:Version
• Memory Beta: http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Version
• Babylon 5 wiki: http://babylon5.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Version
• http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:Version
• http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Special:Version
• http://www.cityliferpg.com/cliki/index.php?title=Special%3AVersion
• http://userbase.kde.org/Special:Version

Additional anti-spam sources: http://www.umasswiki.com/wiki/UMassWiki:Blocking_Spam_In_Mediawiki

from #mediaWiki irc channel

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Possible_tarballs
• http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2011-August/037869.html
• http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2011-August/037870.html
• https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Secretaribot

Design

Done

• http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Common.js&action=edit Re-added Common.js from MediaWiki to e.g. support http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Collapsing
• http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Common.css&action=edit Expanded our Common.css with MediaWiki styles

Simple Install

• http://openwetware.org/wiki/User:Austin/Extensions/Recentchangesfilter helps create custom filters/urls for overhelming recent changes, still actual

Beta versions

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Back-and-Forth
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WebFonts
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Vector

Statistics

Simple Install

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:APC Needs PHP's APC extension and GD extension for graphs. example http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:APC
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Usage_Statistics

Complex Install

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UserOptionStats needs http://phplot.sourceforge.net