[Hamara-devel] some functionality extensions for mediawiki

[shirish शिरीष]

addition at bottom :-

On 3/28/15, shirish शिरीष <shirishag75 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> Here are some functionality extensions to mediawiki :-
>
> a. Easy Timeline :- See
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EasyTimeline - This is
> necessary for knowing where we are with the project and updating
> things along the way.
>
> Syntax for the same is shared here
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EasyTimeline/syntax
>
> b. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CategoryTree - To be able
> to parse various categories - this is both good for admin as well as
> users of the wiki.
>
> c. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CentralNotice - Basically
> ability to have a notice put up once, shows up on all and every page.
>
> d. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FeaturedFeeds - Ability to
> have RSS feeds of whatever new has changed or something the user is
> watching.
>
> e. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LocalisationUpdate - This
> is already bundled, sharing because some technical information as to
> how to keep localization update is shared. Would need to be seen if
> needed or not.
>
> f. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:BetaFeatures - This is
> needed for some features which we would integrate and would take time
> to be stable.
>
> g. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:ExtensionDistributor/VisualEditor
> - This needs Extension:Beta Features . The extension helps to make it
> easier to edit .
>
> h. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Babel - This is needed if
> we are going to have more than one language in the wiki.
>
> i. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:I18nTags - Needed if we
> are going to have a multi-lingual wiki.
>
> j. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CLDR - The CLDR extension
> contains local language names for different languages, countries,
> currencies, and time units extracted from CLDR data.
>
> These could be done later -
>
> a. Secure Poll https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SecurePoll -
> When we have some groups of users we could use this to poll for new
> ideas/features or whatever.
>
> b. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GuidedTour - This actually
> makes a game-like experience. Could be used to make new users edit
> wikis and more. Uses gamification quite a bit.
>
> c. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Popups - Basically you are
> able to hover on any link which is a full article and you get a
> snapshot of that page as an image. But this needs :-
>
> d. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TextExtracts
>
> e. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PageImages

Lastly, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MobileFrontend - To
make the wiki mobile view-friendly.
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          Shirish Agarwal  शिरीष अग्रवाल
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