Help:Extensions

Extensions are features and additions added to Wikia's installation of MediaWiki. See Special:Version for a complete list of extensions and parser hooks, their version numbers, as well as credit to the hardworking developers who created these features.

See Category:Extensions for help pages on Wikia Help. Note this article may not be completely up to date.

Preinstalled
See also Category:Extensions enabled by default.

Users and admins

 * Deleted user contributions	:Gives sysops the ability to browse a user's deleted edits
 * Help:Global CSS and JS				:Adds global user CSS and JavaScript to a page, fetched from the Central Wikia
 * Editcount				:Displays edit count of a user
 * Invite a friend		:Displays "invite a friend" form

Wiki tools

 * CategoryTree		:AJAX based gadget to display the category structure of a wiki
 * CharInsert			:Allows creation of JavaScript box for inserting non-standard characters
 * Create Page			:Allows to create a new page - with the Wysiwyg editor
 * DPLforum			:DPL-based forum extension
 * EasyTimeline		:Timeline extension
 * EditSimilar			:Encourages users to edit an article similar (by categories) to the one they just had edited
 * GoogleDocs4MW		:Adds &lt;googlespreadsheet&gt; tag for Google Docs' spreadsheets display
 * ImageMap				:Allows client-side clickable image maps using &lt;imagemap&gt; tag
 * ImportFreeImages		:Provides a way of importing properly licensed photos from Flickr
 * Inputbox				:Allow inclusion of predefined HTML forms
 * Action Create	:(Patch to InputBox)
 * Cite				:Adds  and tags, for citations
 * LinkSearch		:Search for Weblinks
 * MostPopularArticles					:Get list of most popular articles
 * MostPopularCategories					:Get list of most popular categories
 * MultipleUpload		:Allows users to upload up to five files at once
 * ParserFunctions		:Enhance parser with logical functions
 * Poem					:Adds &lt;poem&gt; tag for poem formatting
 * Polls					:Set up single-choice polls.
 * RandomImage		:Provides a random media picker using &lt;randomimage /&gt;
 * RandomSelection 	:Displays a random option from the given set
 * RSS feed extension		:Displays an RSS feed on a wiki page
 * Send to a friend					:displays "send to a friend" button in the article
 * Shared newtalk	:Cross-wiki new message notifications
 * StringFunctions	:Enhances parser with string functions
 * SolrRSS				:Uses the search function to display an RSS feed of the newest articles across Wikia.
 * TabView                            :One method for having "tabbed" content
 * Tabber                               :One method for having "tabbed" content
 * Video Embed Tool				:Embeds videos from YouTube, Metacafe and many other sites, and adds Video pages
 * WidgetTag				:Adds &lt;widget&gt; tag for dynamic embedding of Wikia widgets
 * WikiHiero			:Syntax to display hieroglyph
 * YouTube			:Embeds YouTube and Google Video movies

Spam and blocking

 * AntiSpamInput			:Simple spambot blocking mechanism
 * ConfirmEdit			:Simple captcha implementation
 * Regular Expression Name Block	:Alternate user block (by given name, using regular expressions, controlled globally)
 * Regular Expression Spam Block	:Filters out unwanted phrases in edited pages, based on regular expression
 * SpamBlacklist			:Regex based anti url spam tool

Other tools

 * AjaxLogin			:Dynamic box which allow users to login and remind password
 * ArticleMetaDescription				:Adding meta-description tag containing snippet of the Article
 * MiniUpload			:Allow users to upload new files directly from editpage
 * ProblemReports		:Allow users to report problems with wiki-articles and sysops/helpers/staff to view & resolve them
 * SharedMessages					:Allows drawing "shared" template messages from the shared DB
 * Shared Help			:Provides the Help namespace pages from this wiki into all wikis (controlled globally)
 * SiteWideMessages		:Provides an interface for sending messages seen on all wikis

On Request
This is a non-comprehensive list of MediaWiki extensions that are available upon request at Wikia. See also Category:Extensions enabled on request.


 * DynamicPageList2 		:Universal reporting tool for wikis, which adds the &lt;dpl&gt; tag
 * GoogleMaps Extension 		:Easily create maps with wiki-fied markers
 * SyntaxHighlight	:Code syntax highlighter - supports many languages
 * Semantic MediaWiki		:Semantic Forms and Search

Restricted

 * CheckUser				:Grants users with the appropriate permission the ability to check user's IP addresses and other information ::(This is generally a staff-only tool. A few wikis have a few users with this access, but it is not requestable.)
 * Protect site			:Allows a site administrator to temporarily block various (this is enabled as deemed needed)
 * Lookup Contribs		:Displays user contributions on multiple wikis
 * Multiple Lookup					:Provides user lookup on multiple wikis