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* [[BlogList]]: My revival of [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikilog Wikilog] for recent versions (1.43 in my case) of MediaWiki.
* [[BlogList]]: My revival of [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikilog Wikilog] for recent versions (1.43 in my case) of MediaWiki.


=== Tuning and hacks ===
== Tuning and hacks ==


* [[Blog:Hacks/A_simple_way_to_quote_from_bibTeX_in_MediaWiki|A simple way to quote from bibTeX in MediaWiki]].
* [[Blog:Hacks/A_simple_way_to_quote_from_bibTeX_in_MediaWiki|A simple way to quote from bibTeX in MediaWiki]].

Revision as of 10:22, 5 July 2025

MediaWiki

MediaWiki is the software that powers websites like Wikipedia and, more modestly, various wikis that we run or where we collaborate. In particular, it powers this (laussy.org) website.

Unless you care about the underlying technical details, there is little to know about MediaWiki, but that it is managed by Wikimedia [1], a foundation that maintains and develops the work. Besides, this is worth knowing only for the pun on media and wiki to make up both the organization and its product.

This page is not about the wiki itself, which is the language to feed MediaWiki with.

If you care about the software, read on.

Principle

This is a long process that dispatch data back and forth from the database and format the output to the screen.

This page is still largely in progress.

Extension(s)

Installation

Downloading from MediaWiki's Extensions web and following the instruction is the basic way. More convenient is:

cd extensions/
git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/YouTube

Then check the version:

cd YouTube
git tab

Look for a tag like REL1_43, and if present:

git checkout REL1_43

And then add in LocalSettings.php the link to new functionalities: wfLoadExtension( 'YouTube' );

Mainstream Extensions

My Extensions

  • wz: Walter Zorn's tooltips for MediaWiki.
  • BlogList: My revival of Wikilog for recent versions (1.43 in my case) of MediaWiki.

Tuning and hacks

To try

  • ImageMap [2] (to integrate with wz).
  • pdfhandler [3] to display our papers.

See also

Links