MediaWiki/extension

About

A MediaWiki extension is a type of plug-in module that extends the functionality of a MediaWiki site.

Links

• Official: Manual:Extensions

Development

• Official:
  • Manual:Extension registration
    • Manual:Extension.json/Schema

Notes

• wooz:MediaWiki: some extensions and MW coding notes
• What is composer.json for? "If an extension or skin has library dependencies, it may have a composer.json file as well, see Manual:Composer.json. Use the load_composer_autoloader field to make MediaWiki use Composer's autoloading when appropriate."

Documented(?) Here

• SpamFerret

Available via MediaWiki

• documented here:
  • Semantic MediaWiki, and its extensions and features & functions
• documented on mediawiki.org:
  • Extension:AccessControl allows restricting access to specific pages based on internal groups or group lists from user space.
  • Extension:Approved Revs lets administrators mark a certain revision of a page as "approved". The approved revision is the one displayed when users view the page at its main URL.
  • Extension:External Data allows MediaWiki pages to retrieve, filter, and format structured data from one or more sources.
  • Extension:FlaggedRevs
  • Extension:Page Forms allows users to add, edit and query data using forms.
    • on SMW
  • Extension:Page Schemas allows for defining all the schema information about a "class", or data type - for naming, display, data input, and browsing - within a single piece of XML contained within a category page.
  • Extension:PhpTags implements a simplified/sandboxed PHP syntax for scripting.
  • Extension:Widgets allows you to define raw HTML pages to be transcluded elsewhere.
  • future support for this extension is uncertain:
    • Extension:Variables allows you to define/redefine a variable on a page, use it later in that same page or transcluded templates.