[Hamara-devel] some functionality extensions for mediawiki

shirish शिरीष shirishag75 at gmail.com
Sun Mar 29 16:51:48 BST 2015


addition at bottom :-

On 3/28/15, shirish शिरीष <shirishag75 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

One more is FLOW

 See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Flow

Click on the Download snapshot link and download the 1.24 version one
and install it please. Make sure Extension:Beta Features is installed
before installing this.
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          Shirish Agarwal  शिरीष अग्रवाल
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