Open the Wikipedia edit window for the article or section as normally in browser (click the Edit tab of a page or section, or use the keyboard shortcut ⇧ Shift+ Alt+ E).A word processor may also be used, and may be less likely to mishandle special characters. Check in a preview that your editor has not mangled any special characters before saving the edited page. Some text editors do not support, or may not be set up to support, various special characters-Chinese characters, non-Latin letters, mathematical symbols, and so on-they are typically replaced with a character that renders as a square.
How to open articles in your text editor Manual methodĪ "manual" way of editing in an external GUI text editor is to use copy and paste.
It also allows Git users to work directly from MediaWiki sources instead of tarballs and zip files with non-relevant and unpredictable names.Įxtensions that define new hooks within the extension code should register them at the page extension hook registry.Įxtensions that define new namespaces should register them at the page Extension default namespaces. When a bug fix needs to be backported, then it can be easily fixed in current branches. Please follow MediaWiki versioning and use branch names REL1_35, REL1_36, REL1_37, etc. You should also add as much detail as possible to the body of the page, and it is wise to check back fairly regularly to respond to user questions. This will create a useful infobox and add the page to this category. If you have an extension that you want to add to this site, create a new page and add the extension template to the top of it (or create a new extension page). The page Manual:Extensions has a good overview of how extensions are structured. Perhaps taking over maintenance of one is a good starting point, too. Category:Unmaintained extensions - There are always some extensions in need of a new maintainer.Please do not contact the MediaWiki developers with questions about third-party extensions! Improving existing extensions If you have any further questions you can raise them on the associated talk page, or contact the extension author(s) if there is contact information listed, or use an existing support channel like the mediawiki-l mailing list or the #mediawiki IRC channel. The documentation page for an extension should hopefully give you all the information you need in order to install/use the extension.
Please note that most of the extensions listed here are not maintained by people affiliated with the MediaWiki software development team.įor most extensions, there is no guarantee of the quality of the software, or its security, or how well it will work with recent versions of MediaWiki. If you can't find an extension that does what you're looking for, you can request one at Extension requests. "Extension" category on WikiApiary - holds a list of websites that use any extension.m:Category:MediaWiki extensions - extensions documented in the Wikimedia Meta-Wiki.Extensions in the MediaWiki Git repository.Software bundles and MediaWiki distributions.All extension pages - an uncategorized list of extensions.To see the list of all extensions that have a page on, go to the subcategory all extensions. The subcategories listed below provide many ways to browse through the set of extensions. This category lists information and pages relating to MediaWiki extensions.