User:Dantman/GE Extended

The Wikia Anime Project's main origin is the idea that ideally it would be nice if every anime series had it's own Wiki, but Wikia could never handle creating a wiki for each one of the hundreds of anime that exist, not only that but some are a bit small for that. So the WAP's focus is the next best thing, something that Wikipedia, and anime-wiki.org wouldn't be able to handle. In the WAP the larger anime which would fit in with their own wiki (as outlined at Enough for a wiki?) and all of the smaller anime which couldn't fit in with their own wiki get a spot at the Animepedia. On the Animepedia a subpage like structure is used giving each anime it's own Anime world which functions much like a Mini Wiki just for that specific anime.

Obviously a system like this requires a few changes in the MediaWiki software with minor hacks and most of it handled by a few normal extensions and some specially made Extensions for the wiki.

All subpages of this page detail different things such as what extensions need to be installed and changes to be hacked into the source code to make a wiki a Top-level wiki in the WAP (eg: the Animepedia is a top-level, and the Manga Wiki, Cartoons, and Comics would be if they were part of the project) and good detail on what they do for the project and why they're needed: (Please note that this is just a current listing of things, it's under construction and is likely to be changed, none of these actually need installation on the Animepedia until development is complete)
 * /Existing Extensions/ - A listing of Existing MW Extensions which would need installation into a top-level wiki in the project, as well as the reasoning and purposes they would serve.
 * /Hack List/ - A listing of the few types of code changes which would need to be added so that the custom extensions would work.
 * /Custom Extensions/ - A listing of the Custom Extensions developed which would be installed into the project.
 * /Installation Instructions/ - A step by step set of instructions for converting a wiki into a top-level WAP wiki (for the devs).