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What are the benefits of extensions in MediaWiki?
Extensions let you customize how MediaWiki looks and works. Wiki users can browse through extensions. System administrators can install (or remove) extensions on the MediaWiki installations that they manage. Developers can write new extensions or improve or maintain extensions.
How many video player extensions are there in wiki?
The Video player extensions category contains articles for extensions that embed video players in wiki articles. This category has only the following subcategory. The number of included categories (C), pages (P) and files (F) is stated in brackets. The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
How can I check if extensions are installed on MediaWiki?
Checking installed extensions. Only someone with administration access to the filesystem (and often the database too) on a server can install extensions for MediaWiki, but anyone can check which extensions are active on an instance of MediaWiki by accessing the Special:Version page. For example, these extensions are active in the English Wikipedia.
What is the action API in MediaWiki 1.21?
MediaWiki provides an action API, a web service that allows access to some wiki-features like authentication, page operations, and search. The ContentHandler introduced in MediaWiki 1.21 makes it possible for wiki pages to be composed of data other than wikitext, such as JSON or Markdown.
What are the different types of hypertext links in MediaWiki?
There are five types of hypertext links in MediaWiki: Internal links to other pages in the same wiki (commonly called “wikilinks”) External links to pages at other websites; External links to internal pages in the same wiki; Interwiki links to other websites using special prefixes registered in advance
How is a Viki graph used in a wiki?
VIKI (Visualization and Knowledge Integration) is a D3-based directed force layout graph visualization of the structure of a wiki. In a VIKI graph, graph nodes represent individual wiki pages or web pages, while links between nodes indicate page links (i.e. one page has a hyperlink to another page, e.g. of the form [ [Other Page]]).
How to set up requestaccount areas in MediaWiki?
In other languages you have to replace “Main Page” and “Special:RequestAccount” with their local names, for instance “Hauptseite” and “Spezial:Benutzerkonto_beantragen” in a German wiki. To further categorize users based on their interests, you can set up MediaWiki:Requestaccount-areas .
What happens when a biography is created on MediaWiki?
If you chose to create the account, the user’s biography will become their userpage and the userpage will be automatically created with the default summary of Creating user page with biography of new user.