Help:Extensions
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A list of installed Extensions and Links to their description in mediawiki
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Category Tag Cloud
This one is Self explaining, just look at the bottom of the Editing Window when you edit an article. If you type in something, you'll get suggestions
CategoryTree
Makes Category Pages Browsable by Subcategories, and enables the creation of dynamic hierarchic Category Trees in Articles via the
<categorytree> tag. See here for instructions.
Cite and Special Cite
Cite is Used to generate references as Footnotes. SpecialCite generates the "cite this page" link in the toolbox, which generates a special Cite with different formats of references for the current article (for copy&paste citing in scientific style) See: Help:Cite
Dynamic Page List, Call and Inputbox
Allows automatic creation of article lists and tables, extremely powerful! Manual here. The Special Database View for MySQL is not activated yet. (See here) Examples used in the wiki here: Help:DynamicPageList
Embed Video
You can embed Videos from different services now (YouTube, Dailymotion, FunnyOrDie, Google Video, sevenload, Revver) using the Syntax :
{{#ev:service|id}} -or- {{#ev:service|id|width}}. For example: {{#ev:youtube|dMH0bHeiRNg}}
(You can see the Vid ID in the end of the Original Link, for example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljbI-363A2Q has the ID ljbI-363A2Q)
Embed Slideshare
You can embed Slides from Slideshare.net automatically, using the following code:
{{#widget:SlideShare
|doc=SLIDESHARE-ID
|width=425
|height=348
}}
You just fill in the ID of your Slide in the line doc= and paste it into your page! To find the right ID it is easiest to copy the code for Wordpress. For more information view the Widget:SlideShare page.
NiceCategoryList
Creates a List of Subcategories and their articles on mayor Category Pages (Example: ) Normally we will Use this code:
<ncl style=compact maxdepth=2 headings=bullet headstart=2
showcats=1 showarts=1>Category:{{PAGENAME}}</ncl>
For mor than two levels of depth change the maxdepth= parameter.[More Information and other forms]
NotifyCategoryTalkOnEdit
If an Article or Subcategory in a Category is edited or created new, this will be notified on the discussion page of this parent category. As a result, if you put the parent category on your watchlist you'll be notified about all changes.
Restrict Access by Group and Category
This extension makes it possible to create categories of articles which are only visible for certain user groups. There are two levels of restriction: NoPublic, where an article is only visible to users in at leats one of the groups, and private, where an article is only visible to users in all of the groups. New Groups/Categories can only be created by Persons with acces to the Installation Server (normally SySops), Group Rights can only be managed by Bureaucrats (most SysOPs are Bureaucrats too). More Info here
