View source for Austrian Economics Wiki:Extensions

These are [[mw:Manual:Extensions|MediaWiki extensions]] installed on the English Wikipedia and Mises Wiki.

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{{ExtensionRow|extension=Abuse Filter|notes={{completed}} Useful against vandals}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=AccountAudit|notes={{unnecessary}} Apparently WMF-specific}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=AntiBot|notes={{completed}} Useful against spambots}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=AntiSpoof|notes={{completed}} Useful against vandals}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=AntiSpoof for CentralAuth|notes={{unnecessary}} We don't use CentralAuth}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=ApiSandbox|notes={{possible}} Mostly harmless; it's just a special page}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=Article Feedback|notes={{unnecessary}} Ugly and unnecessary}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=Asirra|notes={{completed}} Useful against spammers}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=AssertEdit|notes={{deferred}} Might be useful if we used bots around here}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=Babel|notes={{deferred}} Would be useful if we had speakers of different languages}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=BetaFeatures|notes={{inconclusive}} Hard to tell if we would have any use for this or not}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=Campaigns|notes={{unnecessary}} We don't do account creation campaigns}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=CategoryTree|notes={{completed}}}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=Central Auth|notes={{unnecessary}} We don't run a wiki farm.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=CentralNotice|notes={{unnecessary}} We don't run a wiki farm.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=CharInsert|notes={{completed}} Quite useful.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=CheckUser|notes={{completed}} It's apparently wiki policy that we use it for certain investigations.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=Cite|notes={{completed}} Essential.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=CodeEditor|notes={{deferred}} Not sure if we'd ever need this.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=Collection|notes={{completed}} Apparently we use it.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=CommonsMetadata|notes={{deferred}} Hard to tell if we'd have use for this.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=ConfirmEdit|notes={{completed}} Essential.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=DataTypes|notes={{unnecessary}} It's for Wikidata.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=DataValues|notes={{unnecessary}} It's for Wikidata.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=DataValuesCommon|notes={{unnecessary}} It's for Wikidata.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=DataValuesInterfaces|notes={{unnecessary}} It's for Wikidata.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=Diff|notes={{unnecessary}} "This extension does not need to be installed on MediaWiki 1.22 or higher."}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=Disambiguator|notes={{completed}} Could be useful, if we actually had any disambiguation pages.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=DismissableSiteNotice|notes={{deferred}} Not now; maybe later, if we had anything to announce.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=EasyTimeline|notes={{moreInfo}} The documentation doesn't provide enough information to tell.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=Echo|notes={{possible}} It might useful if we had a larger community and enough activity that [[Special:RecentChanges]], user talk pages, and a few central forums wouldn't suffice for all our communication needs.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=Education Program|notes={{deferred}} Might have some use for [[Mises University]] or similar programs.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=EventLogging|notes={{deferred}} It probably serves some useful purpose, but it's doubtful we'll get around to implementing it.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=ExpandTemplates|notes={{unnecessary}} "The ExpandTemplates extension will become part of core MediaWiki in version 1.23. Separate installation will no longer be necessary."}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=ExtensionCheck|notes={{confirmed}} It's a pet project.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=FeaturedFeeds|notes={{likely}} We probably should install this, just in case anyone still uses those RSS or Atom feeds.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=Flagged Revisions|notes={{unlikely}} It might be useful on a few pages, such as [[corporate board]].}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=Gadgets|notes={{completed}} It would be helpful.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=GeoData|notes={{likely}} This would probably be useful.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=GettingStarted|notes={{likely}} This would probably be helpful for new users.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=Global Usage|notes={{unnecessary}} This is not a wiki farm.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=GlobalBlocking|notes={{unnecessary}} This is not a wiki farm.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=GuidedTour|notes={{possible}} It might be useful; if someone wants to research this, go for it.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=ImageMap|notes={{possible}} Potentially useful; if anyone requests installation for something specific, we should probably do it.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=InputBox|notes={{completed}} It's good to have, and pretty much standard equipment in the wikisphere.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=Interwiki|notes={{completed}} A must-have.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=InterwikiMap|notes={{confirmed}} It's a pet project.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=LabeledSectionTransclusion|notes={{completed}} Probably useful.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=Language Names|notes={{unlikely}} aka [[mw:Extension:CLDR]]. There appears to be no need for it here, but if anyone can point out a use, feel free.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=LocalisationUpdate|notes={{completed}} This would be good for the non-English users.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=MassMessage|notes={{deferred}} We don't have enough users for this to be necessary.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=Math|notes={{completed}} Yeah, we need this.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=MergeAccount|notes={{delisted}} This is just CentralAuth.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=MisesQuote|notes={{confirmed}} It's a pet project. However, we should ultimately switch to [[mw:Semantic MediaWiki]] or [[mw:Extension:BedellPenDragon]] or something as our quote solution.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=MobileFrontend|notes={{likely}} Getting this is probably long overdue.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=MultimediaViewer|notes={{possible}} We could debate whether we need this.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=MwEmbedSupport|notes={{moreInfo}} The documentation doesn't give enough info to tell whether this is needed.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=MWSearch|notes={{deferred}} Maybe we'll get this later. It might be a pain in the neck to set up.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=NavigationTiming|notes={{deferred}} It might be useful for measuring performance sometime way down the road.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=Nuke|notes={{possible}} But how often do we have a whole flood of new spam pages?}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=OAIRepository|notes={{unlikely}} Hard to say why we'd need it.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=OAuth 1.0a API authentication|notes={{unlikely}} Hard to say why we'd need it.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=OpenSearchXml|notes={{likely}} Probably useful; not sure what downside there would be.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=Oversight|notes={{unnecessary}} Obsolete.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=PageImages|notes={{likely}} Probably helpful, assuming it fulfils its stated purpose.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=PagedTiffHandler|notes={{possible}} Do we/would we ever use tiff files?}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=PageTriage|notes={{deferred}} Maybe it would be helpful in the future but for now, we can just rely on RecentChanges.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=ParserFunctions|notes={{completed}} A must-have for every MediaWiki installation; really, it should have been [[mw:Suggestions for extensions to be integrated|integrated into the core]] long ago.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=Parsoid|notes={{moreInfo}} If you can figure out what this would be helpful for, let us know.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=PDF Handler|notes={{completed}} Not sure we have many PDFs to handle, but it's a good extension to have.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=Poem|notes={{completed}} Yeah, we might get the occasional poem.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=Pool Counter Client|notes={{unlikely}} We don't have enough traffic to need it.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=Purge|notes={{completed}} Probably unnecessary, given there's a gadget for that, but why not keep it.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=RandomSelection|notes={{completed}} We use it for rotating main page content. It's pretty useful.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=Recently Created Page List|notes={{completed}} We use it for random selections of articles, since [[Special:Random]] don't work too good when you hit it repeatedly.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=Renameuser|notes={{completed}} It's useful.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=RSS feed|notes={{completed}} Not sure if we need this, but why upset the apple cart?}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=SacredText|notes={{completed}} It's a pet project.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=Score|notes={{unlikely}} Unless we're going to have some libertarian hymns, I'm not sure why we'd need it.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=Scribunto|notes={{completed}} A must have; it too might as well be integrated into the core, except that it requires [[wikipedia:Lua|Lua]].}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=SecurePoll|notes={{unnecessary}} We reject [[democracy]] here.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=SiteMatrix|notes={{unnecessary}} This is not a wiki farm.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=Solarium|notes={{deferred}} We would only need this for [[mw:Extension:CirrusSearch]], [[mw:Extension:GeoData]], or [[mw:Extension:Translate]].}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=SpamBlacklist|notes={{completed}} Who knows how much good, if any, it does, but it doesn't seem to do a lot of harm.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=SwiftCloudFiles|notes={{unlikely}} Doesn't seem all that necessary for a small, relatively unpopular site.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=SyntaxHighlight|notes={{completed}} It's needed for [[mw:Extension:ViewFiles]] and for discussions about code.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=TemplateData|notes={{likely}} Probably one of those extensions we have to have in order to be fully compatible with content imported from Wikipedia.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=TemplateSandbox|notes={{possible}} Our template specialists might find it useful.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=Thanks|notes={{deferred}} Needs more capabilities before it'll be all that useful. See [[bugzilla:56373]].}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=TimedMediaHandler|notes={{likely}} Probably useful, if we have any such media.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=Title Blacklist|notes={{deferred}} Maybe off in the distant future, we would need such a tool to combat vandalism. In the meantime, there's RecentChanges.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=TitleKey|notes={{likely}} Yeah, we probably need this.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=TorBlock|notes={{possible}} Do we really want to block Tor?}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=TrustedXFF|notes={{moreInfo}} If anyone wants to provide input on the usefulness or lack thereof of this extension, feel free.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=UniversalLanguageSelector|notes={{moreInfo}} It's controversial, for whatever reason.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=User Daily Contributions|notes={{unlikely}} Probably not useful for non-WMF wikis.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=ValueView|notes={{unnecessary}} It's for Wikidata.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=VectorBeta|notes={{unlikely}} Doesn't look all that important.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=ViewFiles|notes={{completed}} It's a pet project, and has already been useful. It's good for people to be able to know the details of the configuration. Information wants to be free!}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=VipsScaler|notes={{moreInfo}} Might be useful.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=VisualEditor|notes={{deferred}} Ugh, I hope no one ever requests this.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=Widgets|notes={{inprogress}} Want! For YouTube clips, if nothing else.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=Wikibase Client|notes={{unnecessary}} It's for Wikidata.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=Wikibase DataModel|notes={{unnecessary}} It's for Wikidata.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=WikibaseLib|notes={{unnecessary}} It's for Wikidata.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=WikiEditor|notes={{completed}} Sure, let's do it.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=WikiHiero|notes={{unnecessary}} Unless someone wants to post some hieroglyphs.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=WikiLove|notes={{unnecessary}} Ugh, I hope no one ever requests this.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=WikimediaEvents|notes={{unnecessary}} WMF-specific.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=WikimediaMessages|notes={{unnecessary}} WMF-specific.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=WikimediaShopLink|notes={{unnecessary}} WMF-specific.}}
{{ExtensionRow|extension=ZeroRatedMobileAccess|notes={{likely}} Configuration might be difficult, though.}}
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