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: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

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

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: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: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

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Facebook
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenID

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: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

• 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:Multi-Category_Search

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

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

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

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: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 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