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[Digg / Technology / upcoming] One of MediaWiki strengths is how easy it is to extend with its plug-in architecture. The following is a list of 20 extensions that should make your life easier and save you a fair bit of time.
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[Jeephustler's Oasis] So you want a Mediawiki page too.: First of all we need to figure out what you are running your page off of. Is it a home server using Apache xampp or Shared server you pay monthly on.
[CogDogBlog] Whats That Google Calender Doing in My MediaWiki?: You have to copy some PHP code, upload it to the server, hand edit the MW settings file (and hope you did not chop a semi colon- a blank page is a sure sign of a typo in an extension).
[Jeff McNeill] links for 2007-10-21: (tags: mediawiki extensions). Index of /trunk/extensions/ParserFunctions. (tags: mediawiki extensions). Ben Ward » Microformats in Web Browsers. (tags: microformats). A Proposal for a Safari Microformats plugin // journal // ...
[ginger's thoughts] Metavidwiki gone public: It builds on Wikipedias Mediawiki, the Xiph Ogg Theora and Vorbis codecs, a standard LAMP stack and AJAX, the Annodex apache server extension mod_annodex, and is capable of providing the annotations as CMML, ROE, or RSS.
[Sandro Groganz] Useful Extensions for WordPress and MediaWiki: GoogleMaps: This extension allows me to show where I am located on the page with my contact details. XFeed: Aggregates RSS feeds and displays them from within MediaWiki.
[Chris Harvey] Mediawiki Extensions: So now Ill dump the quiz and exam plugin I have on my blog. The next extension Im thinking about installing is phpFreeChat.
[LightSpeed] Channels of Communication: Let us help you to learn more about the power of Social Media through the content that will be published on the wiki in the weeks to come.
[UMW New Media Center] Test Feed: I havent got too much of a clue what this all means, but some of the MediaWiki Extensions (here, here, and here) that I have pointed to in recent posts now have a warning on them. So if you have your wiki wide open (where anyone can .
[Moonfire Thoughts] MediaWiki Category Cloud: At the moment, the one on moonfire.us is pretty damn sad, but Im hoping things will bulk out so it looks prettier. Ill probably iron it out a bit more, add some nifty features, then post it up on the MediaWiki extensions page.
[PHP::Impact ( [str blog] )] 20 MediaWiki Extensions You Should Be Using: Adds a Chat tab to every wiki Article that switches to an embedded chatroom with the same name as the article title. It can be configured to have only one chatroom for all articles, rather than one chatroom per article (the default).
[PHP::Impact ( [str blog] )] 20 MediaWiki Extensions You Should Be Using: CheckUser is an extension that allows a user to check which IPs are used by a given username and which usernames are used by a given IP, without having to run queries directly against the database by hand. The extension is running live on all Wikimedia wikis.
[Wordpress tips, tricks and tools] Wordpress vs Blog-City: As far as Wikis go there are several free options such as DokuWiki, MediaWiki (which resembles the look and feel of Wikipedia) and pmWiki.
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