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* [[modifying the MediaWiki searchbox]] | * [[modifying the MediaWiki searchbox]] | ||
* [[MediaWiki user-group security]] | * [[MediaWiki user-group security]] | ||
| + | ==Extensions of Interest== | ||
| + | Available MediaWiki [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Extensions extensions] which look like they could be useful: | ||
| + | * '''portal-type features''': | ||
| + | ** [[metawikipedia:My blog|My blog]]: blogging features | ||
| + | ** [[metawikipedia:Tasks extension|Tasks extension]] and [[metawikipedia|Tasks Extension|]]: rudimentary multi-user project management | ||
| + | ** [[metawikipedia:WikiFeeds|WikiFeeds]] adds to the standard feeds: Newest pages, Recent changes by user, Newest pages by user, User watchlist, Recent changes for articles in a category, Newest articles in a category | ||
| + | * '''data display''': | ||
| + | ** syntax highlighting | ||
| + | *** [[metawikipedia:Syntax Highlighting Extension|Syntax Highlighting Extension]]: requires [http://www.beautifier.org Beautifier Syntax Highlighting Engine] | ||
| + | *** [[metawikipedia:GeSHiCodeTag Extension|GeSHiCodeTag Extension]] | ||
| + | ** [[metawikipedia:TabbedData extension|TabbedData extension]]: useful for directly posting spreadsheets, though formatting may not be as nice as the converter; evaluation needed | ||
| + | * '''data management''': | ||
| + | ** [[metawikipedia:Attribute Extension|Attribute Extension]]: adds an "attribute" tab to all pages; stores attribute data in a table | ||
| + | * '''groups / security''': | ||
| + | ** [[metawikipedia:Page by page access|Page by page access]]: page-based access control | ||
| + | ** [[metawikipedia:GroupWikiBase|GroupWikiBase]]: page-based access control | ||
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==Code Notes== | ==Code Notes== | ||
''(From [[User:Woozle|Woozle]] 20:59, 15 Jun 2005 (CDT). Eventually to be given their own section, I expect.)'' | ''(From [[User:Woozle|Woozle]] 20:59, 15 Jun 2005 (CDT). Eventually to be given their own section, I expect.)'' | ||
Revision as of 17:14, 7 January 2007
computing: software: web: MediaWiki: customization
Links
- MediaWiki Customization at mediawiki.org
Articles
- modifying MediaWiki menus
- shortening MediaWiki URLs
- add a new navigation box to MediaWiki
- modifying the MediaWiki searchbox
- MediaWiki user-group security
Extensions of Interest
Available MediaWiki extensions which look like they could be useful:
- portal-type features:
- My blog: blogging features
- Tasks extension and Tasks Extension|: rudimentary multi-user project management
- WikiFeeds adds to the standard feeds: Newest pages, Recent changes by user, Newest pages by user, User watchlist, Recent changes for articles in a category, Newest articles in a category
- data display:
- syntax highlighting
- TabbedData extension: useful for directly posting spreadsheets, though formatting may not be as nice as the converter; evaluation needed
- data management:
- Attribute Extension: adds an "attribute" tab to all pages; stores attribute data in a table
- groups / security:
- Page by page access: page-based access control
- GroupWikiBase: page-based access control
Code Notes
(From Woozle 20:59, 15 Jun 2005 (CDT). Eventually to be given their own section, I expect.)
- Everything obviously starts with index.php
- For the purpose of displaying a page (not saving changes or doing anything else), this calls $wgArticle->view(), in Article.php (line 699)
- $wgArticle->view() appears to be able to provide a few other formats besides the regular view (including difference engine and displaying redirections as subtitles), but I'm ignoring that for now
- $wgOut seems to be the object which accumulates text to be output, via various methods:
- $wgOut->addWikiText(...)
- $wgOut->addHTML(...)
- $wgOut->addPrimaryWikiText() # Display content and save to parser cache
- $wgOut->addWikiText() # Display content, don't attempt to save to parser cache
- $wgOut->setPageTitle()
- $wgOut->transformBuffer(); # Put link titles into the link cache
- $wgOut->addMetaTags(); # Add link titles as META keywords
- ...and then it does these two lines:
- $this->viewUpdates(); (found at line 1926 -- doesn't do much)
- wfProfileOut( $fname );
- It's not clear whether the navbar has already been pulled in by the time we hit viewUpdates -- possibly transformBuffer does it? The comment makes it sound like that, but the name "transformBuffer" in that case is not very descriptive. The code in there should probably be examined.