Planned Extensions: Difference between revisions

AntiSpam & Maintenance

Done

These extensions are now installed as seen here.

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

BB2 works, yet needs to be verified if properly

• 🔒 archived https://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

• 💀 dead site 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

• 🔒 archived https://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
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CategoryWatch
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CleanChanges easier to read recent changes, example: http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:RecentChanges
• 📦 comes with MediaWiki 1.18+ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit
• 🔒 archived https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ExpandTemplates
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ListTransclusions
• ⚠ privacy risk https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LookupUser
• 📦 comes with MediaWiki 1.18+ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Nuke
• 🔒 archived https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Recent_Changes_Cleanup
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RegexFunctions
• 📦 comes with MediaWiki 1.31+ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Replace_Text very useful adds http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Special:ReplaceText page for mass editing)
• 📦 will be merged in 1.40 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Renameuser
• 🔒 archived https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SimpleAntiSpam
• 📦 comes with MediaWiki 1.21+ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpamBlacklist can be set to use black/whitelist from other sources, e.g. mediaWiki https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpamBlacklist#Examples , http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spam_blacklist
• 📦 comes with MediaWiki 1.21+ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TitleBlacklist can be set to use black/whitelist from other sources, e.g. mediaWiki https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Title_Blacklist#Multiple_blacklist_sources , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Titleblacklist
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:User_Merge_and_Delete
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WatchSubpages

Disabled

• https://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: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MassEditRegex#Bugs_.2F_Known_Issues
replaced with Replace_Text extension

Simple install

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Newest_Pages
• 📦 comes with MediaWiki 1.21+ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpecialInterwiki

empty for now

Complex install

• 📦 comes with MediaWiki 1.38+ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AbuseFilter Needs AntiSpoof extension + additional filters http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AntiSpoof additional sets https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AntiSpoof/Equivalence_sets
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CheckUser quite important to be able check details about user including IPs etc.
• 🔒 archived https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EditWarning or https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AjaxShowEditors
• ✖ not recommended https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FlaggedRevs
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GlobalUserrights global groups management
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpamRegex
• 🔒 archived https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Tasks
• https://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

• 🔒 archived https://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)
• 🔒 archived https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Configure configuration/maintenance
• ✅ stable https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ContactPage
• 🔓 unmaintained https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Contributors
• ✅ stable https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CreateRedirect
• ✅ stable https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DeleteBatch
• 🅱 beta https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GlobalBlocking
• 🔓 unmaintained https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Maintenance configuration/maintenance
• 🔒 archived https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RegexParserFunctions
• 🔓 unmaintained https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ReplaceSet
• 🔓 unmaintained https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UserLoginLog

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

Special Install

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmAccount only in case of overhelming spam, ensures someone must confirm new accounts
• 🔒 archived https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Recent_Activity_Notify email notification about recent events, usable if things go out of hand often
• 🔒 archived https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SimpleSecurity there may be specific security issues and implications with this extension, too risky atm.
• https://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
• https://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
• 🔓 unmaintained and obsolete https://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

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:NewSignupPage improves sign-up pageas mentioned here https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:NewSignupPage#Interface_messages there 4 msg are neded to be added, as explained here https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Localisation#Adding_new_messages
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Minimum_Name_Length three characters as minimum
• 💀 dead link http://code.google.com/intl/cs-CZ/apis/recaptcha/docs/mediawiki.html reCaptcha for mediaWiki

Simple install

empty for now

Complex install

special purpose

• 🔒 archived https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Facebook
• 🔒 archived https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenID
• 🔒 archived https://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

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EmailCapture
• 🔒 archived https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SecurePasswords

Special Install

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

Parser Hooks

Done

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CategoryTests
• 📦 comes with MediaWiki 1.31+ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CategoryTree uses AJAX
• 📦 comes with MediaWiki 1.21+ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cite
• 🔒 archived https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CreateBox
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DPLforum
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DynamicPageList_(Wikimedia)
• 🔒 archived https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EmailAddressImage turns email addresses into image to protect from email harvesting
• 🔒 archived https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:IconLink
• 📦 comes with MediaWiki 1.21+ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ImageMap
• 📦 comes with MediaWiki 1.21+ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:InputBox
• 🔓 unmaintained and replaced https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:JSpoiler
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Labeled_Section_Transclusion
• 📦 comes with MediaWiki 1.18+ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ParserFunctions $wgPFEnableStringFunctions is set to TRUE to provide functionality of https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:StringFunctions
• 📦 comes with MediaWiki 1.21+ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Poem
• 📦 comes with MediaWiki 1.21+ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi highlighting is must addition improving BIKI

Simple install

empty for now

Complex install

• 📦 comes with MediaWiki 1.38+ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Math quite useful
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EasyTimeline ultra-complex install https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EasyTimeline/installation

Beta versions

• ✅ stable https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RSS too experimental, lets wait for more stable update
• 🔓 unmaintained https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SimpleFeed
• 🔒 archived https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ToggleDisplay
• 📦 comes with MediaWiki 1.18+ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiEditor

Media Handlers

Done

• 🔒 archived https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VideoFlash

Simple install

empty for now

Complex install

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

Beta versions

• 🔒 archived https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FlashMP3

Search

Done

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

Simple install

empty for now

Simple install but more nice-to-have

Complex install

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

Beta versions

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

Special install

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Google_Analytics_Integration
• 🔒 archived https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Google_Custom_Search_Engine
• 🔒 archived https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UniversalSuggester
• 🔒 archived https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GoogleSearch not working

Language & Translation

Simple install

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CLDR
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:I18nTags
• 🔒 archived https://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

• 🅱 beta https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LanguageSelector
• 🔒 archived https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Multilang

Complex install

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

Other

Done

• 🔒 archived https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Assert_Edit
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CharInsert
• 🔒 archived https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:BreadCrumbs
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UploadWizard

Simple install

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

Simple install but more nice-to-have

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WebChat

Complex install

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

Beta versions

• 🔒 archived https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Pdf_Export_Dompdf
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:BreadCrumbs2 either different or expanding version of the v1 one
• 🅱 beta https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenGraphMeta

Nice To Have

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ProtectSite
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DismissableSiteNotice
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:NewUserMessage
• 🔒 archived https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CategorySuggest
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ImportFreeImages
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RandomSelection
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RandomImage
• 🔒 archived https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RandomText
• 📦 comes with MediaWiki 1.18+ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Gadgets
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Description2
• 🔒 archived https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Asksql
• 🔒 archived https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FCKeditor_%28by_FCKeditor_and_Wikia%29 quite powerful editor but still beta
• 🔓 unmaintained https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Checkpoint
• 🔓 unmaintained https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TopTenPages
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PageNotice

Semantics related

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

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

• 🔒 archived https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Forms_Inputs
• ❔ https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Result_formats
• 🔒 archived https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FrequentPatternTagCloud
• 🔒 archived https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MetavidWiki
• 🔒 archived https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Halo_Extension
• 🔒 archived https://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:

• SimpleFeedlisted above as beta
• VideoFlashi
• Taskslisted above as complex, TBD
• ContactPagelisted above as beta
• RenameUser
• CheckUserlisted above as complex, TBD

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

• Newuserlogalready part of core mediaWiki
• Renameuser
• ConfirmEdit
• ParserFunctions

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

• PDF exportlisted above as beta
• syntax highlight
• Simple securitylisted 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

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

Beta versions

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

Statistics

Simple Install

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

Complex Install

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