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
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
- 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