Introduction to MediaWiki 2023: Wikipedia's extensions (Part 2)
Channel: MediaWiki
Date: 14/12/2023

Details at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Krinkle/MediaWiki_Introduction_2023

Links:
What is an extension? https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Extensions
WikiEditor extension. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiEditor
VisualEditor extension. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VisualEditor
Wikipedia's extensions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Version
CentralAuth. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CentralAuth
Echo. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Echo
Cite. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cite
EasyTimeline. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EasyTimeline
EasyTimeline example: Version lifecycle. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Version_lifecycle
InputBox. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:InputBox
InputBox example: Incident status. https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_status
Scribunto. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto
Lua example: SchemaDiagram. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Module:SchemaDiagram
What Lua scripting means for Wikimedia (2013). https://diff.wikimedia.org/2013/03/14/what-lua-scripting-means-wikimedia-open-source/
How we made editing Wikipedia twice as fast (2014). https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2014/12/29/how-we-made-editing-wikipedia-twice-as-fast/
Save Timing in Grafana. https://performance.wikimedia.org/
TimedMediaHandler. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TimedMediaHandler
3D extension. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:3D
AbuseFilter. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AbuseFilter
Gadgets. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Gadgets
Gadget example: RTRC. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/RTRC
Gadget example: Stockphoto. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Gadget-Stockphoto
Half-timbered mansion, by Radomianin. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Half-timbered_mansion,_Zirkel,_East_view.jpg

Timestamps:
00:00 Outline
00:25 What is an extension?
01:52 How to install an extension?
02:01 Install WikiEditor
02:54 Install VisualEditor
03:58 Wikipedia's extensions
04:10 CentralAuth
04:38 Echo
04:56 OAuth for MediaWiki
05:40 Editor extensions
05:48 Parser extensions
06:37 Cite extension
07:37 EasyTimeline
07:56 InputBox extension
08:38 Scribunto
09:38 Faster editing performance
11:24 Media handlers
11:31 TimedMediaHandler
11:42 3D extension for MediaWiki
11:57 Spam prevention extensions
12:35 Gadgets
13:05 Gadget demo
13:41 Gadget examples