Tag: extension

• Wikibase extensions on Wikidata.org

  Wikidata.org runs on MediaWiki with the Wikibase extension. But there is more to it than just that. The Wikibase extension itself is split into 3 different sections, being Lib, Repo and Client. There are also 6 other extensions all providing extra functionality to the site and it’s sisters. The extensions are also loaded on a […]

  September 20, 2018

  Posts, Tech

  extension, propertysuggestor, wikibase, wikibasemediainfo, wikibasequality, Wikidata

• The RevisionSlider

  The RevisionSlider is an extension for MediaWiki that has just been deployed on all Wikipedias and other Wikimedia websites as a beta feature. The extension was developed by Wikimedia Germany as part of their focus on technical wishes of the German speaking Wikimedia community. This post will look at the RevisionSliders design, development and use […]

  September 18, 2016

  Posts, Tech

  diff, extension, mediawiki, revisionslider, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, wish, wmde

• Using Chrome Extension Generator for the first time

  Chrome Extension Generator by yeoman is an npm package that can be used to very easily scaffold out a Chrome extension. Over the past year I have poked and prodded at a few chrome extensions, and ended up publishing one to display download counts on GitHub. I highly recommend this generator, it creates everything you need out […]

  May 7, 2016

  Posts, Tech

  Chrome, extension, gulp, npm, yeoman

• Misled by PHPUnit at() method

  So it turns out the at() method doesn’t quite do what I had initially thought…. I have recently been working on some tests for the new Newsletter extension for Mediawiki, specifically to test the NewslettterTablePager class. This thing extends the TablePager class in Mediawiki which is designed to make displaying information from a database table on […]

  August 29, 2015

  Posts, Tech

  extension, mediawiki, newsletter, PHP, phpunit

• Github release download count – Chrome Extension

  GitHub tracks the number of downloads for all assets (files) that are attached to a release, but GitHub currently makes it very hard for users to get at this information. The number of downloads is currently only accessible through the API. I noticed this many months ago when wondering how many people were downloading the new […]

  April 2, 2015

  Posts, Tech

  API, Chrome, extension, GitHub, Huggle, JavaScript