OpenWetWare:Software/Extensions

Installed Extensions

Go to Special:Version to see the definitive list of installed extensions and their versions. The following extensions are installed on OpenWetware:

Critical Extensions

Critical extensions are either those which if they break would cause many pages to "break"and as such, these extensions should be considered as important to support (for upgrades, etc). Another way to look at this: if we aren't willing to support these, then we shouldn't encourage people to use these.

• Biblio: for citing from PubMed. (Requires php w/ builtin curl support)
• Calendar: extension for fancy calendars
• ShowHide extension to dynamically show/hide sections
• Dewikify: for helping with dewikifying (The mediawiki 'extension' itself only provides the wikionly tags. The dewikify script itself relies on the default format of the monobook skin. If that changes, the script is likely to break.)

Unknown criticality

• PartsRegistry: for connecting with the Registry of Standard Biological Parts. Use the bbpart tag such as <bbpart>B0010</bbpart> to get <bbpart>B0010</bbpart>
• Dynamic Page List v.2 Can dynamically create lists of pages that are in multiple categories. Can also use to generate a list of the most edited pages in the last x hours.
• Dynamic Article List - would allow us to dynamically generate lists of the most popular articles, newest articles etc. Check out the sandbox for a test. (Currently not working again. Requires >php5)

Non-critical extensions

Non-critical extensions are defined as those which don't significantly change pages or remove important functionality.

• Recentchangesfilter: extension that augments the recent changes list with the ability for complex filtering
• Special:Editcount: Show edit stats for users. Can be linked as [[Special:Editcount/user]] and included {{Special:Editcount/user}}
• UserDefaultPage: allow users to change their default page in their preferences

Desirable or pending extensions

List extensions you would like to install here and vote or de-vote for ones you'd like. See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Mediawiki_Extensions for some extensions.

• Forum extension: Demo

• WikiDrops: Add to the top of pages automatically a 'breadcrumbs' path back to the main page.

• Watch a group of pages (similar to Recentchangesfilter) for even pages that don't exist yet (i.e. all calendar pages) or be able to choose to receive email on changes. Perhaps a calendar specific email notifying system.

• Allow users to add custom links to their sidebar. Perhaps allow users to specify a group that have a set of links. Randy wants this for iGEM.

• Modify show/hide extension so it works when printing.

• navimages: for allowing images to link to any URL (was uninstalled as it wasn't working)

Writing new extensions or special pages

• Tutorial on how to write an extension
• Tutorial on how to write a new special page