Kasimir Gabert wrote:
The whole goal of this is to make MediaWiki easy to configure, so that all updates are taken care of, and the user will never have to run anything outside of MediaWiki itself. Of course this area would be protected so sysops, or some other special user group, would only have access to it.
I would agree with this fully - a special page that can manage extensions - add, update and remove. If you follow the mediawiki forum, folks seem to have a lot of problems with using the command-line utilities, some problems with editing a file and little problem with opening a page and clicking a few buttons. No matter how much *nix nerds may love the command line, that's not the way most computer users work.
Mike