Extension Matrix/skin

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Name Description MediaWiki Version Updated Page Edited Talk Page Edited Created Author
Theme Allows using themes of skins 1.17 1 Oct 2013 5 Feb 2013 24 Dec 2010 Ryan Schmidt
Jack Phoenix


SysopSidebar Provides a means of customizing the 'sidebar' based upon the user's membership to the 'sysop' group. 1 Oct 2013 7 Sep 2012 4 May 2007 user:jldupont


MetaMan29 Sep 2012 Extends the edit mode of wiki pages by adding a UI for easier metadata management. Categories and properties (Semantic Media Wiki) can easily be removed and suggestions are made based on similar pages in the wiki. 1.19 29 Sep 2012 1 Oct 2013 7 Sep 2012 6 Sep 2009 Timo Taglieber


FooterManager7 Sep 2011 Allow footer configuration. 1.17 7 Sep 2011 1 Oct 2013 2 Jun 2013 25 Jul 2011 SimonLitt


MHTML2 Feb 2009 Displays MHTML content in an IFRAME 1.11 2 Feb 2009 1 Oct 2013 8 Dec 2008 Joel Peshkin


SuppressExternalLinks11 Jul 2011 Modifies links external to the wiki so they cannot be clicked. 1.17 11 Jul 2011 1 Oct 2013 7 Sep 2012 11 Jul 2011 Big Z


Bootstrap4 May 2013 Provides the Twitter Bootstrap web front-end framework 4 May 2013 1 Oct 2013 14 Jun 2013 18 May 2013 Stephan Gambke


LightboxThumbs3 Aug 2010 Displays full-size images with Lightbox 2 when clicking on thumbnails. 3 Aug 2010 1 Oct 2013 17 Oct 2012 23 Sep 2007


Nostalgia Provides the skin according to how Wikipedia looked in 2001 1 Oct 2013 27 Apr 2013 27 Apr 2013


Chat30 Aug 2012 Adds a Chat tab to every article that links to an embedded chatroom by the same name. 1.6, 1.9, 1.15, 1.19 30 Aug 2012 1 Oct 2013 5 Jun 2013 23 Mar 2007


FloatingToolbar Adds a strip to the bottom of the window. Contents and visibility are set in LocalSettings.php 1 Oct 2013 18 Sep 2010


DynamicSkin6 Sep 2007 This extension allows the skin layout and content to be defined using normal wikitext articles instead of PHP script files, and to be modified dynamically depending on the contents of each page. 6 Sep 2007 1 Oct 2013 22 Sep 2012 22 Aug 2007 Eric Hartwell


PatchOutput2 Aug 2013 Patch the HTML representation of a page. 2 Aug 2013 1 Oct 2013 6 Aug 2013 30 May 2007


Uservoice6 Jul 2013 Provides a widget to access UserVoice. 6 Jul 2013 1 Oct 2013 8 Jul 2013 6 Jul 2013 Daniel Schuba


WYSIWYG25 Apr 2012 The WYSIWYG extension allows the easy insertion and enhanced editing of formatted data like tables, headings, enumerations etc. while they are displayed exactly like the final output. 1.16, 1.17 25 Apr 2012 4 Oct 2013 30 Sep 2013 30 Dec 2010 ontoprise GmbH


MobileDetect8 Aug 2010 Detects mobile devices and returns true or false depending on browsers user agent. 1.15, 1.16 8 Aug 2010 1 Oct 2013 7 Sep 2012 8 Aug 2010 Matthew Tran


ZeroRatedMobileAccess Provides features for mobile providers that provide free access to Wikipedia 1 Oct 2013 15 Jan 2013 21 Dec 2011 Yuri Astrakhan


Sarcasm2 Feb 2013 Adds sarcasm tags to the wiki that can be used for indicating text as sarcastic 2 Feb 2013 1 Oct 2013 12 Feb 2013 30 Jan 2013


RemoveSubpagestr14 Jun 2007 Allows to remove links from certain subpages back to their root page. 1.10 14 Jun 2007 1 Oct 2013 7 Sep 2012 14 Jun 2007 Matthew Vickery


LiveFeed Provides several useful tools including the Live Traffic Feed widget that allows you to see what is happening on your wiki/blog right now. 1.6 1 Oct 2013 27 Nov 2008 Mohan S. Cheema


Blackout22 Jan 2012 For use during blackouts in protest to SOPA/PIPA and Internet censorship. 22 Jan 2012 1 Oct 2013 7 Sep 2012 17 Jan 2012 John Du Hart and Gregory Varnum


GeeQuBox13 Feb 2011 Displays full-size images with the jquery lightbox plugin when clicking on thumbnails. 1.16 13 Feb 2011 1 Oct 2013 7 Sep 2012 13 Feb 2011 David Raison


Terminology28 Aug 2008 Enable a Glossary or define Terminology within MediaWiki using tooltips. 1.6 28 Aug 2008 4 Oct 2013 7 Sep 2012 29 May 2008 BarkerJr with modifications by Benjamin Kahn (xkahn <at> zoned <dot> net)


PageInfo A info-box near the table of contents or at the top of a wiki page. Informations about creation, edits and views. 1.15, 1.16 1 Oct 2013 7 Sep 2012 14 Feb 2011 Philipp Glatza, le-tex publishing services GmbH


MpDisqus13 Sep 2010 Integrates Disqus commenting service at bottom of each page 1.16 13 Sep 2010 1 Oct 2013 29 Dec 2012 28 Oct 2009


WikiCategoryTagCloud11 Jul 2012 Allows to add tag clouds based on categories to a page 1.17 11 Jul 2012 1 Oct 2013 23 May 2013 22 Aug 2007 Daniel Friesen


Agora4 Apr 2013 Adds skin-agnostic styles to MediaWiki 1.19 4 Apr 2013 1 Oct 2013 15 Feb 2013 16 Nov 2012 Rob Moen, Trevor Parscal, Munaf Assaf


LiveHelp Integrated LiveHelp interface through jQuery UI. 1 Oct 2013 7 Sep 2012 4 Jul 2011


Site Meter for MediaWiki Adds 'Site Meter' traffic statistic monitoring to MediaWiki. 1 Oct 2013 7 Sep 2012 22 Aug 2010 Lewis Cawte


CSS Dropdowns CSS dropdown in the Sitenotice - the area at the top of the page for the entire wiki 1 Oct 2013 24 Sep 2013 5 Nov 2006 ThePlaz


BADI Pages Created Links3 Jun 2010 Allows display of links in toolbox to other wiki or wiki-like sites whereby links will be colored differently depending on whether the page there has been created yet or not. Status determined by response code or Last-Modified HTTP HEAD requests. 1.15 3 Jun 2010 1 Oct 2013 3 Jun 2010


AdManager4 Sep 2012 Allows setting an ad zone for individual pages or categories 1.17 4 Sep 2012 1 Oct 2013 7 Sep 2012 3 Oct 2011 Ike Hecht


AddPersonalUrls2 Aug 2013 Add some items to the personal URLs. 2 Aug 2013 1 Oct 2013 2 Aug 2013 31 May 2007


Halo Extension4 May 2012 The Halo extension is an extension to Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) and has been developed in order to facilitate the use of Semantic Wikis for a large community of users. 4 May 2012 1 Oct 2013 20 Dec 2012 11 Oct 2007 ontoprise GmbH


WikiShare4 Dec 2011 Adds social media sharing capabilities, without sending any user data, to wikis using sidebar portlet and page toolbar. With user preferences enabling/disabling the feature and individual services. Wiki SysAdmin settings to control the look, placement and appearance of the toolbar. 4 Dec 2011 1 Oct 2013 19 Feb 2013 4 Dec 2011 Gregory Varnum


Topbar19 Jan 2012 Adds Topbar navigation to Mediawiki. A part of a suite of extensions by Writh.net aimed at combining the beauty of Wikidot with the power of MediaWiki. 19 Jan 2012 1 Oct 2013 6 Feb 2013 19 Jan 2012 Kevin Kragenbrink


CategoryHistory30 Jul 2012 Shows changes of all articles belonging to a category. 1.19 30 Jul 2012 1 Oct 2013 7 Sep 2012 30 Jul 2012 Josef Martiňák


SidebarDonateBox Adds a PayPal donate button to the sidebar 1 Oct 2013 7 Sep 2012 31 Jul 2010 Daniel Friesen


AddThis6 Jan 2012 Adds an AddThis widget as a portlet to sidebar and displays expanded widget as a toolbar in articles. Expanded widget toolbar is also available using <addthis /> tag. 6 Jan 2012 1 Oct 2013 8 Sep 2013 19 Nov 2011 Gregory Varnum


Google AdSense 217 Aug 2012 Allows to add Google AdSense to the sidebar 1.18 17 Aug 2012 1 Oct 2013 27 Sep 2013 26 Aug 2008 Siebrand Mazeland


PCR GUI Inserts2 Mar 2011 Lets you easily add pieces of HTML code at several useful places of the GUI. Can be used for instance to insert any stat-tracking code (Google Analytics, Piwik...), additional boxes in the sidebar (a search box, ads, a donation link...), meta tags, and more. 1.16 2 Mar 2011 1 Oct 2013 19 Dec 2012 9 Aug 2010 David Dernoncourt


HoverGallery17 Jun 2013 Adds <hovergallery> tags that create galleries like the standard ones, except that when the mouse hovers over the thumbnails, the full-size images are displayed. 17 Jun 2013 1 Oct 2013 21 Apr 2013 19 Apr 2013 Felipe Schenone


WordPressPosts25 Dec 2009 Lists recent WordPress blog posts in the MediaWiki sidebar. 25 Dec 2009 1 Oct 2013 25 Dec 2009


MooTools 1.2 Core18 Jul 2008 Adds mootools-1.2-core-yc.js to each page 1.12 18 Jul 2008 1 Oct 2013 7 Sep 2012 18 Jul 2008 The MooTools Dev Team


Ads12 Jun 2013 Inserts adverts in the navigation bar. It can also insert other HTML tags. 1.18 12 Jun 2013 1 Oct 2013 24 Jun 2013 12 Jun 2013 Miguel Peláez


Reflect Reflect provides a second column to threaded talkpages. In the second column, anyone can add a bullet point summarizing some point that the commenter was making. The goal is to help make large discussions more meaningful by improving the experience of participating as well as making it easier to identify the takeaways. 1 Oct 2013 22 Apr 2013 2 Aug 2010 Travis Kriplean


WikiSkin16 Oct 2007 Using normal wikitext articles to define skin content and layout. 1.6, 1.11 16 Oct 2007 1 Oct 2013 7 Sep 2012 5 Apr 2007 Nad


TimezoneSelector5 May 2013 Allows to show timezone settings and change temporarily timezone setting 1.18 5 May 2013 1 Oct 2013 1 May 2013 29 Apr 2013


TweetANew30 Dec 2011 Tweets when a page is created or edited. Depending on preferences set for the entire wiki, either automatically or from the edit page. 30 Dec 2011 1 Oct 2013 17 Aug 2013 23 Jul 2011 Gregory Varnum merging extensions by Joachim De Schrijver, Andrew Fitzgerald, Wendell Gaudencio, and Rohit Keshwani


SpecialTalk5 Apr 2011 Adds a talk tab to Special Pages 1.6 5 Apr 2011 1 Oct 2013 7 Sep 2012 2 Oct 2010 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason


Lingo7 Apr 2013 Provides hover-over tool tips on pages from words defined on a wiki page 1.16 7 Apr 2013 4 Oct 2013 2 Oct 2013 9 Jan 2011 Barry Coughlan
Stephan Gambke


E3 Experiments Bootstrapper for Editor Engagement Experiments 1 Oct 2013 21 Aug 2013 23 May 2012 Matt Flaschen, Ori Livneh, S Page


EnhancedReportTime19 Aug 2013 Displays enhanced information about generation time of wiki pages 19 Aug 2013 4 Oct 2013 15 Jul 2013 14 Jul 2013 Dāvis Mošenkovs


Google Translator17 Jun 2010 Adds Google Translator box to the sidebar 1.15 17 Jun 2010 1 Oct 2013 18 Jun 2013 17 Jun 2010 Joachim De Schrijver


Tab Override12 Apr 2010 Allows you to use the tab key as you normally would in a text-editor 1.7 12 Apr 2010 1 Oct 2013 7 Sep 2012 13 Apr 2010 Bill Bryant, Mathew Tinsley


AdvancedSkinSystem AdvancedSkinSystem implements a flexible skinning framework for your wiki. Skins can be changed on the fly depending on namespace or category and are completely editable from the wiki-interface (if your user is equipped with sufficient rights). 1 Oct 2013 7 Sep 2012 15 May 2008 Jamasi


SmoothGallery19 Jan 2012 Allows users to give a delimited list of images, and output a css/javascript gallery 1.6, 1.7 19 Jan 2012 1 Oct 2013 18 Oct 2012 2 Jan 2007 Mathias Lidal


BreadCrumbs21 Aug 2013 Provides breadcrumb navigation based on categories 1.10 1 Aug 2013 4 Oct 2013 19 May 2013 6 Sep 2007 Eric Hartwell, Ike Hecht


SectionDisqus16 Aug 2013 Adds a "Discuss" button next to the "Edit" button of every section, that when clicked, opens a Disqus thread for that section. 16 Aug 2013 1 Oct 2013 25 Aug 2013 16 Aug 2013 Felipe Schenone


WikiBhasha25 Oct 2010 Tool to help Multilingual content creation in Wikipedia 1.16 25 Oct 2010 1 Oct 2013 7 Sep 2012 26 Oct 2010 WikiBhasha.MSR


ExtIdx (Extended Index)23 Jun 2008 ExtIdx, a MediaWiki extension that extends the page index with the index of (in the headlines) referred pages. 1.13 23 Jun 2008 1 Oct 2013 23 Jun 2008 Markus Szumovski


MoveToSkin A simple extension which allows skin designers to define areas of the skin to which content can be moved from the wiki text article using a parser function, it helps avoid a lot of the Javascript hacks that are otherwise necessary. 1 Oct 2013 20 Oct 2012


SkinByUrl2 Force use of a particular skin based on the URL used to access the wiki 1 Oct 2013 14 Jan 2010


SectionHide5 Sep 2013 Adds a link alongside edit links to collapse and expand sections of the article 1.19 5 Sep 2013 4 Oct 2013 5 Sep 2013 25 Jul 2013 Simon Oliver


BlueSpice12 Jun 2013 MediaWiki distribution for business needs. More info 1.19 12 Jun 2013 1 Oct 2013 20 Aug 2013 19 Nov 2010 Hallo Welt! Medienwerkstatt GmbH


Quantcast12 Dec 2010 Adds Quantcast tracking JS code to all pages 1.0, 1.11 12 Dec 2010 1 Oct 2013 22 Dec 2010 Jack Phoenix


MobileSkin30 Apr 2009 Automatically detect iPhone or other mobile devices to select a skin appropriate for the device (overrides user's preference for desktop without changing the user setting). 1.13 30 Apr 2009 1 Oct 2013 17 Oct 2012 15 Dec 2008 Mark Daly


WikimediaShopLink19 Jul 2012 Extension to put geo located link to the Wikimedia Shop on the side bar for testing purposes. 19 Jul 2012 1 Oct 2013 7 Sep 2012 19 Jun 2012 James Alexander


HideSidebar7 Sep 2011 Hide sidebar from anonymous users 1.14 7 Sep 2011 1 Oct 2013 19 Oct 2012 28 Apr 2010 Jlerner


HighslideThumbs Displays full-size images with HighSlide JS when clicking on thumbnails. 1 Oct 2013 7 Sep 2012 2 May 2010 TomFourWinds (Yury Katkov as supporter)


PreToClip12 Aug 2013 Adds a "Copy to clipboard"-Button to every <pre>-Tag 1.19 12 Aug 2013 1 Oct 2013 13 Aug 2013 12 Aug 2013 Thomas Candrian


SkinByURL Force use of a particular skin based on the URL used to access the wiki 1.10 1 Oct 2013 11 May 2009


TreeAndMenu27 Feb 2013 Creates dynamic dropdown and folder tree menus 1.17 27 Feb 2013 4 Oct 2013 25 Aug 2013 19 Feb 2007 Nad, Zven


SysSidebar30 Aug 2009 Makes "Recent changes" on the sidebar link to unpatrolled edits, for sysops 1.15 30 Aug 2009 1 Oct 2013 27 Nov 2012 30 Aug 2009


ExpandCss10 Apr 2006 Expand the CSS Styles for your wiki without own skin 1.6 10 Apr 2006 1 Oct 2013 30 Dec 2012 10 Apr 2006 User:Ennox


JSBreadCrumbs8 Jul 2010 Adds a trail of breadcrumbs below the tab bar. 1.16 8 Jul 2010 1 Oct 2013 14 Jan 2013 24 Jun 2010 Ryan Lane


DynamicSidebar4 Sep 2012 Provides dynamic sidebars based on user pages, groups, and categories. 1.17 4 Sep 2012 1 Oct 2013 23 Jul 2013 23 Feb 2010 Ryan Lane


VisualEditor Provides the VisualEditor to MediaWiki 4 Oct 2013 2 Oct 2013 3 Nov 2011


NewPageCSS16 Feb 2012 Allows the inclusion of CSS style sheets within wiki pages 1.16 16 Feb 2012 1 Oct 2013 10 Jun 2013 24 Nov 2010 Julian Porter & Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason


GlobalCssJs Allows global CSS and JS on a "central" wiki to be loaded for all wikis in the farm 1.8 4 Oct 2013 7 Sep 2012 29 Jan 2008 Ryan Schmidt


Semantic Tagbox4 Jan 2012 Adds a tagbox 1.7, 1.18 4 Jan 2012 4 Oct 2013 7 Sep 2012 17 Mar 2012 MWJames


Social Sidebar12 Sep 2011 Adds Links to Twitter and Facebook in the sidebar 1.15 12 Sep 2011 4 Oct 2013 16 Jan 2013 24 Jul 2011 Joachim De Schrijver


PostEdit25 Oct 2012 An extension to deliver a confirmation message post-edit 25 Oct 2012 1 Oct 2013 16 Jul 2013 24 Sep 2012 Munaf Assaf, Ori Livneh


UniversalLanguageSelector30 Apr 2013 Tool that allows users to select a language and configure its support in an easy way. 30 Apr 2013 1 Oct 2013 9 Jul 2013 9 Jul 2012 Language Engineering Team


PageAttachment This extension extends MediaWiki to allow adding files to a page as attachments. 1 Oct 2013 19 Mar 2013 13 Sep 2011 Aldrin Baroi


CustomNavBlocks7 Oct 2012 Allows you to use normal MediaWiki-pages as contents of your Sidebar 1.19 7 Oct 2012 1 Oct 2013 5 Jun 2013 18 Apr 2008


LinkHint27 Jul 2007 LinkHint gives you a simple preview of the inner links on a page 1.10 27 Jul 2007 4 Oct 2013 7 Sep 2012 27 Jul 2007 Nadav Wexler


ShareThis Provides links to popular social bookmarking and news sources. 1.6, 1.16 1 Oct 2013 19 Oct 2012 5 Mar 2007 Jim R. Wilson (Jimbojw)


ClozeTest15 Apr 2011 Quiz tool for MediaWiki; automatic cloze test generation 15 Apr 2011 1 Oct 2013 7 Sep 2012 15 Apr 2011 Justin Drake