Extension:LinkSuggest

MediaWiki extensions manual

LinkSuggest Release status: stable
Implementation	Search
Description	Provides the user with article title suggestions as they type a link in wikitext.
Author(s)	Inez Korczyński Bartek Łapiński Łukasz Garczewski Maciej Brencz Jesús Martínez Novo Jack Phoenix
Latest version	2.1.0 (2021-01-29)
MediaWiki	1.39+
License	GNU General Public License 2.0 or later
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Parameters $wgLinkSuggestFromNamespaces
Hooks used EditPage::showEditForm:initial GetPreferences
Quarterly downloads	21 (Ranked 111st)
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The LinkSuggest extension suggests links to editors on edit view (?action=edit). Registered users are able to turn LinkSuggest off via Special:Preferences.

Installation

• Download and move the extracted LinkSuggest folder to your extensions/ directory.
  Developers and code contributors should install the extension from Git instead, using:cd extensions/
git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/LinkSuggest
• Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:

  wfLoadExtension( 'LinkSuggest' );
  

•  Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

Configuration

$wgLinkSuggestFromNamespaces

Array that defines a list of namespaces to get suggestions from if you don't type a namespace.

Default value:

$wgLinkSuggestFromNamespaces = [ NS_MAIN ];

Adding namespaces to this list will cause LinkSuggest to load suggestions from pages on those namespaces, when you don't type the namespace. This cause suggestions to get pages "Apple" and "Project:Apple" if you type "Appl" and $wgLinkSuggestFromNamespaces is [ NS_MAIN, NS_PROJECT ].

Related extensions

• WikiEditor - Has similar functionality built in. Clicking on the link icon from the tool-bar shows a search box, typing into this will search the available pages. This extension is now bundled with MediaWiki.