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

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

Beta versions

quite useful ones yet still beta state

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Check_Spambots
• 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://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TitleBlacklist

Simple install

• http://code.google.com/intl/cs-CZ/apis/recaptcha/docs/mediawiki.html reCaptcha for mediaWiki

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

Simple install

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EasyTimeline
• 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:Math
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ParserFunctions
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RSS
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi highlighting is must addition improving BIKI

Media Handlers

Simple install

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

Complex install

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

Search

Simple install

empty for now

Other

Simple install

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

Complex install

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

Nice To Have

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

Unformatted

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

• SimpleFeed
• VideoFlash
• Tasks
• ContactPage
• RenameUser
• CheckUser

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

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