Extension:Calendar

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There are several calendar extensions available, which work in different ways:

Name	version	last update	works with MW version	features	author
Calendar A simple set of customizable templates using the extensions: DynamicPageList ParserFunctions InputBox	1.0.1	2007-04	1.9+	Graphical calendar that highlights days with events List of events with customizable details Each event is an article that can have any set of attributes (participants, name, description) The rule to fetch event pages and details can be customized (example: the template should look for pages belonging to a configurable set of categories ("Events", etc...) and article name prefixes (such as "YYYY/MM/DD my article name") to update the calendar and event list).	Y.combarnous
Calendar (Barrylb)	N/A	2007-08	1.6.7+ (tested up to 1.10 ok)	<calendar> tag for displaying a single month, and a box underneath with upcoming events Special:Events page for displaying list of events for a month or day Each event is an individual article and added using categories [[Category:Event]] and [[Category:2007/08/22]] Customize appearance using CSS Suppports inline cycling between months with page refreshes using AJAX	Barrylb
Calendar (Cdamian)	1.13				Cdamian
GoogleCalendar	N/A	2007-04	1.8.2 and up	Only lets you view google calendars.	Guaka
Hex2bit's Calendar Extension	N/A	2006-11-12	1.5.0, 1.7.1 and 1.8.2, 1.11	Multiple calendars per wiki Entries in calendars are wiki pages New maintainer who thinks that this is really cool stuff, and plans to add a whole bunch of features to it.	maintainer: Simsong original author: Hex2bit
Calendar (Shane)	N/A
Calendar (Shane) extended	N/A		not with v. 1.9.3
SpecialCalendar	2.0				Sbrunner
Simple Calendar	1.21	2007-05-07	1.6.0+	Simple calendar extension which renders a table of all the months in the year with each day being a wiki article. Can also render a particular month and render your own personal calendar using {{CURRENTUSER}} variable. New query parameter to pre-load content into Calendar articles. You can customize the presentation style of the calendar tables by using Extension:CSS and embedding a parser function {{#css:calendar.css}} into any calendar article.	Nad
DPL Calendar				A parser-function calendar based on DPL and other extensions. More information	Algorithmix

[edit] Calendar kit evaluating table

ID	Items\ Calendar kits	Simple Calendar	User:Simsong/Calendar	DPL Calendar
1	i18n	Uses files in the ..\wiki\languages\messages	X	Easy to do by users.
2	Easy to install	O	O	X
3	Custom event titles	O	O	O
4	Watching events made by other person's or group's calendars	X	X	Using parameter of "purpose" and Category to deal with this item.
5	Events can be specified with a namespace	O	X	O
6	Calendar GUI	Good	Better	Good
7	Switching events to show on the GUI or not	X (It's can not show events on the GUI.)	X (It always shows events on the GUI.)	O
8	Easy to switch to previous or next month	Using Call extension with the parser function	O (Using a Javascript solution)	Using Call extension with the switch on the GUI.
9	Switching to show the days of all year or month in the GUI	O	X	X
10	Having another sortable table to show the events	Using DPL solution	As the calendar does not use the YYYY-MM-DD format, it is difficult to accomplish	Default switching by the parameter of "eventList"
11	Having form Solution	Using Semantic_Forms to create a red link page with specific namespace	X	Using Semantic_Forms to create a red link page with specific namespace
12	Emailing a event to specific someone	Using Extension:Todo Tasks solution.	Using Extension:Todo Tasks solution.	Using Extension:Todo Tasks solution.
13	Colors the current day	O	O	X
14	Uses Parser or tag	Parser	tag	Parser
15	Easy to sort the events with DPL or SMW solution (Date format)	O (YYYY-MM-DD or others)	X	O (YYYY-MM-DD)
16	Setting to show a specific year or month.	O	O	O
17	How to make a calendar for a user using	By setting events' title	By setting events' title	By setting events' category