Extensions are features and additions added to Wikia's installation of MediaWiki. See Special:Version for a complete list of extensions and parser hooks, their version numbers, as well as credit to the hardworking developers who created these features.
See Category:Extensions for help pages on Wikia Help. Note this article may not be completely up to date.
Preinstalled
See also Category:Extensions enabled by default.
Users and admins
- Deleted user contributions
- Gives sysops the ability to browse a user's deleted edits
- Help:Global CSS and JS
- Adds global user CSS and JavaScript to a page, fetched from the Central Wikia
- Editcount
- Displays edit count of a user
- Invite a friend
- Displays "invite a friend" form
- Lookup Contribs
- Displays user contributions on multiple wikis
- Multiple Lookup
- Provides user lookup on multiple wikis
Wiki tools
- CategoryTree
- AJAX based gadget to display the category structure of a wiki
- CharInsert
- Allows creation of JavaScript box for inserting non-standard characters
- Create Page
- Allows to create a new page - with the Wysiwyg editor
- DPLforum
- DPL-based forum extension
- EasyTimeline
- Timeline extension
- EditSimilar
- Encourages users to edit an article similar (by categories) to the one they just had edited
- GoogleDocs4MW
- Adds <googlespreadsheet> tag for Google Docs' spreadsheets display
- ImageMap
- Allows client-side clickable image maps using <imagemap> tag
- ImportFreeImages
- Provides a way of importing properly licensed photos from Flickr
- Inputbox
- Allow inclusion of predefined HTML forms
- Action Create
- (Patch to InputBox)
- Cite
- Adds <ref[ name=id]> and <references/> tags, for citations
- LinkSearch
- Search for Weblinks
- MediaWikiWyg
- MediaWiki integration of the Wikiwyg WYSIWYG wiki editor
- MostPopularArticles
- Get list of most popular articles
- MostPopularCategories
- Get list of most popular categories
- MultipleUpload
- Allows users to upload up to five files at once
- ParserFunctions
- Enhance parser with logical functions
- Poem
- Adds <poem> tag for poem formatting
- Polls
- Set up single-choice polls.
- RandomImage
- Provides a random media picker using <randomimage />
- RandomSelection
- Displays a random option from the given set
- RSS feed extension
- Displays an RSS feed on a wiki page
- Send to a friend
- displays "send to a friend" button in the article
- Shared newtalk
- Cross-wiki new message notifications
- StringFunctions
- Enhances parser with string functions
- TabView
- Video Embed Tool
- Embeds videos from YouTube, Metacafe and many other sites, and adds Video pages
- WidgetTag
- Adds <widget> tag for dynamic embedding of Wikia widgets
- WikiHiero
- Syntax to display hieroglyph
- YouTube
- Embeds YouTube and Google Video movies
Spam and blocking
- AntiSpamInput
- Simple spambot blocking mechanism
- ConfirmEdit
- Simple captcha implementation
- Regex Block Stats
- Displays block statistics for the RegexBlock extension
- RegexBlock Engine 2.0 Core
- Core regular expression matching engine
- RegexBlock Engine 2.0 MediaWiki handler
- MediaWiki functionality for regular expression matching engine
- Regular Expression Name Block
- Alternate user block (by given name, using regular expressions, controlled globally)
- Regular Expression Spam Block
- Filters out unwanted phrases in edited pages, based on regular expression
- SpamBlacklist
- Regex based anti spam tool
Other tools
- AjaxLogin
- Dynamic box which allow users to login and remind password
- ArticleMetaDescription
- Adding meta-description tag containing snippet of the Article
- DataProvider
- Data provider for Wikia skins
- GetUserAgent
- Browser detection functionality
- MiniUpload
- Allow users to upload new files directly from editpage
- Our404Handler
- Our 404 handler for making thumbs and other magic
- ProblemReports
- Allow users to report problems with wiki-articles and sysops/helpers/staff to view & resolve them
- SharedMessages
- Allows drawing "shared" template messages from the shared DB
- Shared Help
- Provides the Help namespace pages from this wiki into all wikis (controlled globally)
- SiteWideMessages
- Provides an interface for sending messages seen on all wikis
- Webtools
- Displays wiki position and clicks statistics (controlled globally)
On Request
This is a non-comprehensive list of MediaWiki extensions that are available upon request at Wikia. See also Category:Extensions enabled on request.
- DynamicPageList2
- Universal reporting tool for wikis, which adds the <dpl> tag
- GoogleMaps Extension
- Easily create maps with wiki-fied markers
- SyntaxHighlight
- Code syntax highlighter - supports many languages
- Semantic MediaWiki
- Semantic Forms and Search
Restricted
- CheckUser
- Grants users with the appropriate permission the ability to check user's IP addresses and other information ::(This is generally a staff-only tool. A few wikis have a few users with this access, but it is not requestable.)
- Protect site
- Allows a site administrator to temporarily block various (this is enabled as deemed needed)
External links
- MediaWiki Extensions List at MediaWiki.org, the homepage of MediaWiki software