On 01/14/2013 10:20 AM, Yuvi Panda wrote:
Is there a sort of 'Extension Bundle' that gets you baseline stuff that people who are used to wikipedia 'expect'? ParserFunctions and Cite come to mind, but I'm sure there are plenty others.
This was part of my reasoning behind bundling some core extensions with MediaWiki.
ParserFunctions is already included, but I was going to bundle the following extensions in 1.21:
* Cite * InputBox * LocalisationUpdate * SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi
As far as template bundles, I think this would be better served with an extension like LocalisationUpdate that could fetch a new copy of the desired templates from your chosen Wikipedia.
Another area that could benefit most non-WMF wikis is a way to import some documentation for how to *use* a wiki.
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Mark A. Hershberger mah@everybody.org wrote:
On 01/14/2013 10:20 AM, Yuvi Panda wrote:
ParserFunctions is already included, but I was going to bundle the following extensions in 1.21:
- LocalisationUpdate
How do you plan to get users to set it up? AFAIK it requires setting up a cron job, so its not exactly something that can automatically be set up by the installer.
As far as template bundles, I think this would be better served with an extension like LocalisationUpdate that could fetch a new copy of the desired templates from your chosen Wikipedia.
Another area that could benefit most non-WMF wikis is a way to import some documentation for how to *use* a wiki.
Both of those two things would probably be solved if we had good interwiki transclusion support.
--bawolff
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 5:17 PM, bawolff bawolff+wn@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Mark A. Hershberger mah@everybody.org wrote:
On 01/14/2013 10:20 AM, Yuvi Panda wrote:
ParserFunctions is already included, but I was going to bundle the following extensions in 1.21:
- LocalisationUpdate
How do you plan to get users to set it up? AFAIK it requires setting up a cron job, so its not exactly something that can automatically be set up by the installer.
LU is also part of MLEB, which is released on a monthly basis: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MLEB. This page also contains brief instructions on how to set things up. This bundle is maintained by the Wikimedia Language Engineering team, more specifically Niklas Laxström.
Another bundle that I know of is SemanticBundle, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_Bundle, which is currently maintained by Yaron Koren and Jeroen De Dauw.
Cheers!
On 01/14/2013 10:20 AM, Yuvi Panda wrote:
Is there a sort of 'Extension Bundle' that gets you baseline stuff that people who are used to wikipedia 'expect'? ParserFunctions and Cite come to mind, but I'm sure there are plenty others.
I don't know if this would be relevant to your question, but I have to say that in our company we maintain and use our own MediaWiki distribution "Mediawiki4Intranet" (http://github.com/mediawiki4intranet, http://wiki.4intra.net/) for all MW installations. It includes ~75 extensions, the set is not totally similar to WMF one, but we think it's good for corporate (intranet) usage. You can try it out if you want, yet some extensions are documented only in russian :-)
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