Planned Extensions
AntiSpam & Maintanence
Done
These extensions are now installed as seen on http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Special:Version
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AntiBot
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LookupUser
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MassEditRegex
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Nuke
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Recent_Changes_Cleanup
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Renameuser
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SimpleAntiSpam
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpamBlacklist
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:User_Merge_and_Delete
Simple install
empty for now
Complex install
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AbuseFilter Needs AntiSpoof extension
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AntiSpoof
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CheckUser
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FlaggedRevs
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GlobalBlocking
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpamRegex
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Tasks
Beta versions
quite useful ones yet still beta state
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Check_Spambots
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ContactPage
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Maintenance
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Lockout logs out banned user by terminating his sessionsNote: 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:Bad_Behavior seems simple yet complicated - need further analysis
- 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
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TitleBlacklist
Simple install
empty for now
Complex install
special purpose
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.
Parser Hooks
Done
- 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:EmailAddressImage turns email addresses into image to protect from email harvesting
- 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:ParserFunctions
- 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:WikiEditor
Media Handlers
Done
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
Simple install
empty for now
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
Special install
- 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
Other
Done
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Assert_Edit- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CharInsert
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:BreadCrumbs
Simple install
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:UploadWizard or http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MultiUpload
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: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:FrequentPatternTagCloud
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MetavidWiki
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Halo_Extension
Unformatted
From http://blog.fedecarg.com/2008/03/08/20-mediawiki-extensions-you-should-be-using:
SimpleFeed listed above as betaVideoFlashiTasks listed above as complex, TBDContactPage listed above as betaRenameUserCheckUser listed above as complex, TBD
From http://arnomane.wordpress.com/2007/06/27/mediawiki-tricks-2-essential-extensions:
Newuserlog already part of core mediaWikiRenameuserConfirmEditParserFunctions
From http://serverfault.com/questions/120589/useful-extensions-for-mediawiki:
PDF export listed above as betasyntax highlightSimple security listed above as special, too riskyBreadCrumbs
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