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Semantic extensions |
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Extension | Version | License | Description | Authors |
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Page Importer | 0.1.0 (91bfdad) 14:09, 11 December 2017 | | Extension to provide the ability to have extension-defined pages | James Montalvo |
Semantic Compound Queries | 1.2.0 | GPL-2.0-or-later | A parser function that displays multiple semantic queries at the same time | Semantic MediaWiki project and Yaron Koren |
Semantic Drilldown | 2.0.2 (ed7496c) 23:34, 3 September 2021 | GPL-2.0-or-later | A drilldown interface for navigating through semantic data | Yaron Koren and others |
Semantic Internal Objects | 0.8.2 (0f76a5c) 23:41, 3 September 2021 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Setting of internal objects in Semantic MediaWiki | Yaron Koren |
Semantic Meeting Minutes | 1.0.0 (1955464) 16:35, 5 September 2018 | | Provides a simple method to enter meeting minutes into MediaWiki using Semantic Forms and embed minutes into related pages | James Montalvo |
Semantic MediaWiki | 3.0.2 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Making your wiki more accessible - for machines and humans (online documentation) | Markus Krötzsch, Jeroen De Dauw, James Hong Kong and others |
Semantic Result Formats | 3.0.0 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Additional result formats for Semantic MediaWiki queries | James Hong Kong, Stephan Gambke, Jeroen De Dauw, Yaron Koren and others |
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Special pages |
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Extension | Version | License | Description | Authors |
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Admin Links | 0.2.3 (b5d7b6b) 12:10, 12 August 2021 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Adds a special page that holds helpful links for administrators | Yaron Koren |
BatchUserRights | 1.2.0 (9ebd2d5) 15:11, 12 August 2021 | GPL-3.0-or-later | Allows adding one or more users to a group or more groups in one action | Sean Colombo |
Contribution Scores | 1.25.0 (836871b) 05:56, 7 October 2021 | | Polls the wiki database for highest user contribution volume | Tim Laqua |
Copy Watchers | 0.10.0 (774ddc1) 08:22, 24 April 2017 | | ⧼copywatchers-desc⧽ | James Montalvo |
Data Transfer | 1.0.1 (730cbfb) 13:46, 13 June 2019 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Allows for importing and exporting data contained in template calls | Yaron Koren and others |
Echo | – (5ae97e6) 19:09, 2 September 2021 | MIT | System for notifying users about events and messages | Andrew Garrett, Ryan Kaldari, Benny Situ, Luke Welling, Kunal Mehta, Moriel Schottlender and Jon Robson |
Interwiki | 3.1 20160307 (b61d5d7) 01:38, 3 September 2021 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Adds a special page to view and edit the interwiki table | Stephanie Amanda Stevens, Alexandre Emsenhuber, Robin Pepermans, Siebrand Mazeland, Platonides, Raimond Spekking, Sam Reed, Jack Phoenix, Calimonius the Estrange and others |
Page Forms | 4.5.1 (bb1beb0) 17:36, 26 August 2019 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Forms for creating and editing wiki pages | Yaron Koren, Stephan Gambke and others |
Replace Text | 1.4 (cf7ece5) 11:31, 3 April 2018 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Provides a special page to allow administrators to do a global string find-and-replace on all the content pages of a wiki | Yaron Koren, Niklas Laxström and others |
WatchAnalytics | 3.1.1 (503e6ab) 12:44, 25 March 2019 | License | Encouraging good distribution of watchers | James Montalvo |
WhoIsWatching | 0.12.1 (0d03e31) 06:42, 4 September 2021 | GPL-2.0-only | Provides a listing of usernames watching a wiki page | Paul Grinberg, Siebrand Mazeland, Vitaliy Filippov and Mark A. Hershberger |
Wiretap | 0.1 (098e344) 14:05, 19 April 2018 | | Tracks page views and offers several data displays | James Montalvo |
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Editors |
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Extension | Version | License | Description | Authors |
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VisualEditor | 0.1.0 (e963cff) 14:57, 24 July 2020 | MIT | Visual editor for MediaWiki | Alex Monk, Bartosz Dziewoński, Christian Williams, David Lynch, Ed Sanders, Inez Korczyński, James D. Forrester, Moriel Schottlender, Roan Kattouw, Rob Moen, Timo Tijhof, Trevor Parscal, C. Scott Ananian and others |
WikiEditor | 0.5.1 (eb567c4) 07:25, 4 September 2021 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Provides an advanced, extensible wikitext editing interface | Derk-Jan Hartman, Trevor Parscal, Roan Kattouw, Nimish Gautam and Adam Miller |
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Parser hooks |
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Extension | Version | License | Description | Authors |
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Arrays | 2.1.0 (2166695) 15:35, 9 March 2018 | MIT | Store and compute named arrays | Li Ding, Jie Bao and Daniel Werner |
CharInsert | – (bdd143d) 07:33, 2 September 2021 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Allows creation of JavaScript box for inserting non-standard characters | Brion Vibber |
Cite | – (411e28a) 08:08, 2 September 2021 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Adds <ref[ name=id]> and <references/> tags, for citations | Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Andrew Garrett, Brion Vibber, Ed Sanders, Marius Hoch, Steve Sanbeg, Trevor Parscal and others |
DisplayTitle | 1.2 (b4c092c) 01:51, 28 March 2017 | License | Uses displaytitle page property in link text, subtitle, and talk page title; provides parser function to query displaytitle | Cindy Cicalese and Tobias Oetterer |
External Data | 1.8.3 (0ead292) 20:10, 2 September 2021 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Allows for retrieving structured data from external URLs, databases and other sources | Yaron Koren and others |
ImageMap | – (0af380e) 00:59, 3 September 2021 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Allows client-side clickable image maps using <imagemap> tag | Tim Starling |
InputBox | 0.3.0 (6df45a0) 01:32, 3 September 2021 | MIT | Allow inclusion of predefined HTML forms | Erik Moeller, Leonardo Pimenta, Rob Church, Trevor Parscal and DaSch |
LabeledSectionTransclusion | – (30542e8) 02:28, 3 September 2021 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Adds #lst and #lstx functions and <section> tag, enables marked sections of text to be transcluded | Steve Sanbeg |
Maps | 6.0.3 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Enables embedding of dynamic maps into wiki pages, geocoding of addresses and other geographical operations | Jeroen De Dauw and others |
MasonryMainPage | 0.3.0 (9837244) 13:05, 20 April 2017 | | ⧼masonrymainpage-desc⧽ | Daren Welsh |
NumerAlpha | 0.7.0 (ef13e11) 19:53, 17 December 2020 | Unlicense | Provides methods of inserting incrementing numbers, letters and roman numerals | Thierry G. Veilleux, James Montalvo, Emanspeaks and others |
ParserFunctions | 1.6.0 (9186edc) 18:15, 3 September 2021 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Enhance parser with logical functions | Tim Starling, Robert Rohde, Ross McClure and Juraj Simlovic |
Pipe Escape | 2.0.0 (3f69e1c) 20:13, 3 September 2021 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Parser function #! for when you want a pipe character to be just a pipe character | David M. Sledge, Purodha Blissenbach and others |
SimpleMathJax | 0.3 (e94afaf) 19:06, 27 April 2017 | | render TeX between <math> and </math> | Jmkim dot com |
SubPageList | 1.5.0 | GPL-2.0+ | Allows to list and count subpages | Jeroen De Dauw |
SyntaxHighlight | 2.0 (b7e3952) 02:04, 4 September 2021 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Provides syntax highlighting <syntaxhighlight> using Pygments - Python syntax highlighter | Brion Vibber, Tim Starling, Rob Church, Niklas Laxström, Ori Livneh and Ed Sanders |
TemplateData | 0.1.2 (facc3dc) 02:17, 4 September 2021 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Implement data storage for template parameters (using JSON) | Timo Tijhof, Moriel Schottlender, James D. Forrester, Trevor Parscal, Bartosz Dziewoński, Marielle Volz and others |
Variables | 2.4.0 (28c07af) 05:35, 4 September 2021 | ISC | Parser functions allowing to work with dynamic variables in an article scoped context | Rob Adams, Tom Hempel, Xiloynaha, Daniel Werner, MGChecker and others |
YouTube | 1.9.2 (922be05) 10:08, 4 September 2021 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Embeds YouTube and Google Video movies, Archive.org audio and video, WeGame and Gametrailers video, Tangler forum, and GoGreenTube video | Przemek Piotrowski |
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Other |
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Extension | Version | License | Description | Authors |
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Approved Revs | 1.0 (b2f77fb) 14:21, 28 January 2019 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Set a single revision of a page as approved | Yaron Koren and others |
CirrusSearch | 0.2 (cd80cf4) 03:01, 7 October 2021 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Elasticsearch-powered search for MediaWiki | Nik Everett, Chad Horohoe, Erik Bernhardson and others |
CollapsibleVector | 0.1.10 (7475dc3) 04:46, 7 October 2021 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Enhances the user interface when using the Vector skin | Paladox |
DismissableSiteNotice | 1.0.1 (f6dd9a5) 17:06, 2 September 2021 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Allows users to close the sitenotice | Brion Vibber, Kevin Israel and Dror S. |
Elastica | 1.3.0.0 (f9af7d6) 19:24, 2 September 2021 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Base Elasticsearch functionality for other extensions by providing Elastica library | Nik Everett and Chad Horohoe |
ImagesLoaded | 0.1.0 (c419f68) 15:04, 15 May 2017 | | ⧼imagesloaded-desc⧽ | James Montalvo |
MezaExt | 0.1.0 (206c1de) 11:11, 13 September 2019 | | Extension to capture all the little things meza (https://github.com/enterprisemediawiki/meza) wants | James Montalvo |
Parser Function Helper | 1.0.0 (e4e2502) 14:04, 19 April 2018 | | Provides a simple interface for other extensions to create parser functions | James Montalvo |
ParserHooks | 1.5.0 | GPL-2.0+ | OOP interface for creating MediaWiki parser hooks in a declarative fashion | Jeroen De Dauw |
TalkRight | 2.0.0 (cc96696) 13:01, 20 April 2018 | | Adds a talk permission independent from article edition | P.Leveque, Marc Noirot and James Montalvo |
Thanks | 1.2.0 (22340a3) 03:00, 4 September 2021 | MIT | Adds links for thanking users for edits, comments, etc. | Ryan Kaldari, Benjamin Chen and Wctaiwan |
UniversalLanguageSelector | 2018-04-10 (e02d96b) 04:26, 4 September 2021 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Gives the user several ways to select a language and to adjust language settings | Alolita Sharma, Amir Aharoni, Arun Ganesh, Brandon Harris, Kartik Mistry, Niharika Kohli, Niklas Laxström, Pau Giner, Santhosh Thottingal, Siebrand Mazeland and others |
Upload Wizard | 1.5.0 (d6c20a3) 04:54, 4 September 2021 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Upload Wizard, a user-friendly tool for uploading multimedia | Neil Kandalgaonkar, Jeroen De Dauw, Mark Holmquist, Ryan Kaldari, Michael Dale, Ankur Anand, Ian Baker, Nischay Nahata, Yuvi Panda, Bartosz Dziewoński, Matthias Mullie and others |
Validator | 2.2.1 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Declarative parameter processing library | Jeroen De Dauw and Professional.Wiki |
Library | Version | License | Description | Authors |
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composer/installers | 1.7.0 | MIT | A multi-framework Composer library installer | Kyle Robinson Young |
composer/semver | 1.4.2 | MIT | Semver library that offers utilities, version constraint parsing and validation. | Nils Adermann, Jordi Boggiano and Rob Bast |
cssjanus/cssjanus | 1.3.0 | Apache-2.0 | Convert CSS stylesheets between left-to-right and right-to-left. | Trevor Parscal, Roan Kattouw and Timo Tijhof |
data-values/common | 0.4.3 | GPL-2.0+ | Contains common implementations of the interfaces defined by DataValuesInterfaces | Jeroen De Dauw |
data-values/data-values | 2.3.0 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Defines the DataValue interface and some trivial implementations | Jeroen De Dauw |
data-values/geo | 4.2.1 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Geographical value objects, parsers and formatters | Jeroen De Dauw and The Wikidata team |
data-values/interfaces | 0.2.5 | GPL-2.0+ | Defines interfaces for ValueParsers, ValueFormatters and ValueValidators | Jeroen De Dauw |
data-values/validators | 0.1.3 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Common ValueValidator implementations | Jeroen De Dauw and The Wikidata team |
elasticsearch/elasticsearch | 5.3.0 | | | |
jeroen/file-fetcher | 4.4.0 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Simple file fetching interface | Jeroen De Dauw |
jeroen/simple-cache | 2.0.0 | GPL-2.0+ | Small library defining a minimalistic caching interface and provides some basic implementations | Jeroen De Dauw |
jeroen/simple-geocoder | 1.3.0 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Simple and minimalistic Geocoder interface with some basic implementations | |
liuggio/statsd-php-client | 1.0.18 | MIT | Statsd (Object Oriented) client library for PHP | Giulio De Donato |
mediawiki/parser-hooks | 1.5.0 | GPL-2.0+ | Adds a OOP and declarative parser hook interface on top of MediaWiki | Jeroen De Dauw |
nicmart/tree | 0.2.7 | MIT | A basic but flexible php tree data structure and a fluent tree builder implementation. | Nicolò Martini |
onoi/blob-store | 1.2.1 | GPL-2.0+ | A simple interface to manage schema-free temporal persistent key/values | mwjames |
onoi/cache | 1.2.0 | GPL-2.0+ | A minimalistic cache adapter interface library | mwjames |
onoi/callback-container | 2.0.0 | GPL-2.0+ | A very simple callback container/builder library | mwjames |
onoi/event-dispatcher | 1.1.0 | GPL-2.0-or-later | A minimalistic interface to relay generic events to registered listeners | James Hong Kong |
onoi/http-request | 1.3.1 | GPL-2.0+ | A minimalistic http/curl request interface library | mwjames |
onoi/message-reporter | 1.4.1 | GPL-2.0-or-later | An interface to report and relay arbitrary messages to registered handlers | Jeroen De Dauw and James Hong Kong |
onoi/shared-resources | 0.4.3 | GPL-2.0+ | Shareable and common resource modules | mwjames |
onoi/tesa | 0.1.0 | GPL-2.0+ | A simple library to sanitize text elements | mwjames |
oojs/oojs-ui | 0.26.4 | MIT | Provides library of common widgets, layouts, and windows. | Timo Tijhof, Bartosz Dziewoński, Ed Sanders, James D. Forrester, Kirsten Menger-Anderson, Rob Moen, Roan Kattouw, Trevor Parscal, Kunal Mehta and Prateek Saxena |
param-processor/param-processor | 1.10.0 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Parameter processing library | Jeroen De Dauw |
pear/console_getopt | 1.4.3 | BSD-2-Clause | More info available on: http://pear.php.net/package/Console_Getopt | Andrei Zmievski, Stig Bakken and Greg Beaver |
pear/mail | 1.4.1 | BSD-2-Clause | Class that provides multiple interfaces for sending emails. | Chuck Hagenbuch, Richard Heyes and Aleksander Machniak |
pear/mail_mime | 1.10.2 | BSD-3-clause | Mail_Mime provides classes to create MIME messages | Cipriano Groenendal and Aleksander Machniak |
pear/net_smtp | 1.7.3 | PHP-3.01 | An implementation of the SMTP protocol | Jon Parise and Chuck Hagenbuch |
pear/net_socket | 1.2.2 | PHP License | More info available on: http://pear.php.net/package/Net_Socket | Chuck Hagenbuch, Aleksander Machniak and Stig Bakken |
pear/pear-core-minimal | 1.10.10 | BSD-3-Clause | Minimal set of PEAR core files to be used as composer dependency | Christian Weiske |
pear/pear_exception | 1.0.1 | BSD-2-Clause | The PEAR Exception base class. | Helgi Thormar and Greg Beaver |
psr/log | 1.0.2 | MIT | Common interface for logging libraries | PHP-FIG |
ruflin/elastica | 5.3.0 | | | |
serialization/serialization | 3.2.2 | GPL-2.0+ | Library defining a Serializer and a Deserializer interface and basic utilities | Jeroen De Dauw |
symfony/css-selector | 3.4.37 | MIT | Symfony CssSelector Component | Fabien Potencier, Jean-François Simon and Symfony Community |
wikimedia/assert | 0.2.2 | MIT | Provides runtime assertions | Daniel Kinzler |
wikimedia/at-ease | 1.2.0 | GPL-2.0+ | Safe replacement to @ for suppressing warnings. | Tim Starling and MediaWiki developers |
wikimedia/base-convert | 2.0.0 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Convert an arbitrarily-long string from one numeric base to another, optionally zero-padding to a minimum column width. | Brion Vibber and Tyler Romeo |
wikimedia/cdb | 1.4.1 | GPL-2.0+ | Constant Database (CDB) wrapper library for PHP. Provides pure-PHP fallback when dba_* functions are absent. | Daniel Kinzler, Tim Starling, Chad Horohoe and Ori Livneh |
wikimedia/cldr-plural-rule-parser | 1.0.0 | GPL-2.0+ | Evaluates plural rules specified in the CLDR project notation. | Tim Starling and Niklas Laxström |
wikimedia/composer-merge-plugin | 1.4.1 | MIT | Composer plugin to merge multiple composer.json files | Bryan Davis |
wikimedia/html-formatter | 1.0.2 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Performs transformations of HTML by wrapping around libxml2 and working around its countless bugs. | MediaWiki contributors |
wikimedia/ip-set | 1.3.0 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Efficiently match IP addresses against a set of CIDR specifications. | Brandon Black |
wikimedia/less.php | 1.8.0 | Apache-2.0 | PHP port of the Javascript version of LESS http://lesscss.org (Originally maintained by Josh Schmidt) | Matt Agar, Martin Jantošovič and Josh Schmidt |
wikimedia/object-factory | 1.0.0 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Construct objects from configuration instructions | Bryan Davis |
wikimedia/php-session-serializer | 1.0.6 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Provides methods like PHP's session_encode and session_decode that don't mess with $_SESSION | Brad Jorsch |
wikimedia/purtle | 1.0.7 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Fast streaming RDF serializer | Daniel Kinzler, Stanislav Malyshev, C. Scott Ananian and Thiemo Kreuz |
wikimedia/relpath | 2.1.1 | MIT | Compute a relative filepath between two paths. | Ori Livneh |
wikimedia/remex-html | 2.0.1 | MIT | Fast HTML 5 parser | Tim Starling |
wikimedia/running-stat | 1.2.1 | GPL-2.0+ | PHP implementations of online statistical algorithms | Ori Livneh |
wikimedia/scoped-callback | 1.0.0 | GPL-2.0+ | Class for asserting that a callback happens when a dummy object leaves scope | Aaron Schulz |
wikimedia/textcat | 1.3.0 | LGPL-2.1-only | PHP port of the TextCat language guesser utility, see http://odur.let.rug.nl/~vannoord/TextCat/. | Stanislav Malyshev and Trey Jones |
wikimedia/timestamp | 1.0.0 | GPL-2.0+ | Creation, parsing, and conversion of timestamps | Tyler Romeo |
wikimedia/utfnormal | 2.0.0 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Contains Unicode normalization routines, including both pure PHP implementations and automatic use of the 'intl' PHP extension when present | Brion Vibber |
wikimedia/wait-condition-loop | 1.0.1 | GPL-2.0+ | Wait loop that reaches a condition or times out | Aaron Schulz |
wikimedia/wrappedstring | 2.3.0 | MIT | Automatically compact sequentially-outputted strings that share a common prefix / suffix pair. | Timo Tijhof |
willdurand/geocoder | 4.2.2 | MIT | Common files for PHP Geocoder | William Durand |
zordius/lightncandy | 0.23 | MIT | An extremely fast PHP implementation of handlebars ( http://handlebarsjs.com/ ) and mustache ( http://mustache.github.io/ ). | Zordius Chen |
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