Extension:ShoutWiki Interwiki Magic

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ShoutWiki Interwiki Magic Release status: beta
Implementation	Hook
Description	Handles global interwikis and local interlanguage links without adding the interwiki table to $wgSharedTables
Author(s)	Jack Phoenix
Last version	1.0 (3 April 2011)
MediaWiki	1.18.0+
License	Public domain
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Hooks used InterwikiLoadPrefix
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ShoutWiki Interwiki Magic is a MediaWiki extension that fetches interwiki links (as opposed to interlanguage links) from $wgSharedDB while still fetching interlanguge links from the local database.
This way it is possible to have a list of global interwiki links (which are stored in $wgSharedDB's interwiki table) without adding the interwiki table to $wgSharedTables.

This extension was written by Jack Phoenix for ShoutWiki to replace the old core hack ShoutWiki had in includes/Interwiki.php; this extension thus effectively fixes ShoutWiki bug #12 (but Extension:SpecialInterwiki still needs to be patched).

Installation

1. Download the source code, either via the extension distributor or SVN and place it in $IP/extensions/InterwikiMagic/
2. Add the line
   require_once("$IP/extensions/InterwikiMagic/InterwikiMagic.php");
   into the wiki's LocalSettings.php
3. Installation can now be verified through the wiki's Special:Version