We're looking at implementing Mediawiki and would like to extend its core database functionality to capture/report some other data elements. (eg Name, NAIC, state/country, etc.)
After looking through the various MW source documentation/reference sites, it appears the most straightforward approach would be to merely add appropriate custom special pages as needed (eg data input/validation & reporting).
Our objective is to eliminate any changes to the base MW PHP code/MySQL tables so that we can upgrade as new releases are made available. It seems the way to do this is to maintain separate custom pages, PHP functions & MySQL tables and write a few extensions that link our code to the base MW code to perform the functions as needed.
Does this seem like the right approach? That is, is this way everyone else does it and I'm just asking a real obvious question? If so, can anyone point me to some various examples? I've looked through the different MW APIs/hooks/extensions, but haven't really seen anything as described above.
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