Help:Extensions

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Extensions add features to MediaWiki or enhance existing features. See Special:Version for an automatic list of all extensions (special pages, parser hooks, media handlers and other extensions) installed on this wiki and info about their developers.

Preinstalled

Users

CategoryTree

AJAX based gadget to display the category structure of a wiki

Editcount

Displays edit count of a user

Gadgets

Lets users select custom CSS and JavaScript gadgets in their preferences

MultipleUpload

Allows users to upload multiple files at once

MyInfo

Shows your current skin, browser, operating system and full User-Agent string

Newest Pages

Shows the last X pages added to the wiki

Thanks

The Thanks extension allows users to thank other users for individual edits.

WikiEditor

Provides an extendable wikitext editing interface and many feature-providing modules

Admins

AbuseFilter

Allows administrators set specific controls on actions by users, such as edits, and create automated reactions for certain behaviors

Nuke

Gives the ability to mass-delete pages. Admin & staff-only.

Staff

These tools are available only to the ShoutWiki staff due to the high potential of abuse. Please email us at troppusmoc.ikiwtuohs if you need a CheckUser performed or revisions hid from page history etc.

ChangeAuthor

Allows changing a revision's author

CheckUser

Allows the staff to check a user's IP address and other information

GlobalUserrights

Easy global user rights administration

LookupUser

Allows the staff to check a user's preferences

Maintenance

Web interface for various maintenance scripts

Special:Interwiki

A special page to view and edit the interwiki table

Wiki tools

AJAX Poll

Adds polling capabilities through the <poll> tag

CharInsert

Allows creation of JavaScript box for inserting non-standard characters

Cite

Adds <ref[ name=id]> and <references/> tags, for citations

DismissableSiteNotice

Allows users to close the sitenotice

EasyTimeline

Adds <timeline> tag to create timelines

Echo

The Echo extension provides an in-wiki notification system that can be used by other extensions.

Global CSS & JS

Global CSS and JS that will be loaded for every wiki from a central wiki

Echo

The Echo extension provides an in-wiki notification system that can be used by other extensions.

ImageMap

Allows client-side clickable image maps using <imagemap> tag

Inputbox

Allow inclusion of predefined HTML forms

ParserFunctions

Enhance parser with logical functions

RandomSelection

Display a random option from the given set

RSS feed extension

Displays an RSS feed on a wiki page

Shared Newtalk

Marks changes to talk pages across the wiki farm to notify the user in a centralized location

StringFunctions

Defines an additional set of parser functions that operate on strings

Syntax Highlight

Provides syntax highlighting by using GeSHi Highlighter

Thanks

The Thanks extension allows users to thank other users for individual edits. It adds a 'thank' link next to the 'undo' link in history and diff views.

Wiki Category Tag Cloud

A category tag cloud

WikiHiero

Syntax to display hieroglyph

YouTube

Embeds videos from popular video services, such as YouTube, Archive.org and so on

Spam and blocking

ConfirmEdit

Simple captcha implementation

SpamBlacklist

Regex-based anti-spam tool

On Request

This is a list of MediaWiki extensions that are available upon request. Please email us at troppusmoc.ikiwtuohs if you need one or more of these extensions installed on your wiki.

CrossReference

Creates automatically numbered cross references on a wiki page, LaTeX style.

CodeEditor

Provides a syntax-highlighting code editor for site & user JS, CSS and Lua pages, integrating with advanced edit toolbar

Highly Automated Welcome Tool

Welcomes new users after their first edit

Maps

Interactive, annotated maps for your wiki

MassMessage

The MassMessage extension allows a user to send a message to a list of pages via special page Special:MassMessage.

NumerAlpha

The NumerAlpha extension methods of inserting incrementing numbers, letters, and roman numerals into pages.

PageInCat

Adds a parser function to test if the current page is in some category

PrivateDomains

Allows restricting editing to users with a certain e-mail address

PreloadManager

Provides per-namespace text preloading upon page creation

Prezi

Allows embedding presentations from Prezi.com

RandomImage

Provides a random media picker using <randomimage />

Semantic MediaWiki

Allows users to add structured data to wiki pages through simple wikitext markup that identifies relations between pages and attribute values of pages.

WhosOnline

A special page for viewing the list of users currently online

Social tools

SocialProfile

Social Tools for MediaWiki. Includes user profiles, avatars, gifts, awards, friending and foeing and user levels.

Comments

Adds <comments> parser hook that allows commenting on articles

LinkFilter

Allows users to submit all kinds of links for approval.

RandomFeaturedUser

Adds <randomfeatureduser> parser hook to display a randomly chosen 'featured' user and some info regarding the user, such as his or her avatar.

RandomImageByCategory

Adds <randomimagebycategory> tag for displaying a randomly chosen image from a given category. Can be enabled on non-social wikis.

RandomUsersWithAvatars

Adds <randomuserswithavatars> tag for displaying the avatars of randomly chosen wiki users.

UserWelcome

Adds <welcomeUser> tag to display user-specific social info

Vote

JavaScript-based voting with the <vote> tag. Can be enabled on non-social wikis.

WikiTextLoggedInOut

Two parser hooks, <loggedin> and <loggedout> to show different text depending on the users' login state. Can be enabled on non-social wikis.

Restricted

ProtectSite

Allows a site administrator to temporarily block various site modifications

DynamicPageList (third party)

The DynamicPageList (third-party) extension is a reporting tool for MediaWiki, listing category members and intersections with various formats and details. This is currently restricted since there are several bugs in the extension and has no maintainer, and thus may be a while before they will be fixed.

Requesting a new extension

To request a new feature to be added to ShoutWiki or to get an on-request feature activated for your wiki, please email us at troppusmoc.ikiwtuohs or leave a message to a member of the Customer Support Team and they'll look onto it.

Please note that while we try in general to fulfill as many requests as possible, we cannot fulfill each and every of them; some extensions might be badly-coded and cause security leaks or then they might not be compatible with our cache.

External links

• MediaWiki extensions list at MediaWiki.org, the home page of MediaWiki software