Extension:SpecialInterwiki

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Special:Interwiki Release status: stable
Implementation	Special page
Description	Adds a special page to view and manipulate the interwiki table.
Author(s)	Stephanie Amanda Stevens, SPQRobin
Last Version	1.3
MediaWiki	1.6+
License	GNU General Public License 2.0 or later
Download	Download snapshot Subversion [Help] Browse source code see "Download" section (Change log)
Example	See #Sites using this extension
Added rights interwiki
check usage (experimental)

This is an extension to add a Special:Interwiki page to MediaWiki, to view and edit the interwiki table, and a log of any actions made with it. It was made by Stephanie Amanda Stevens a.k.a Phroziac, because she was annoyed at forgetting the interwiki prefixes. It's made for MediaWiki 1.6 onwards.

[edit] Installation

1. Create a new directory Interwiki in your extensions directory.
2. Download the required extension files (see #Download), and put these files in the new Interwiki directory.
3. Make one of the following additions to your LocalSettings.php file, based on the version you are using:
   1. If you are using the more recent versions of this extension (which have this extension merged into the Interwiki extension itself), add this to your LocalSettings.php, somewhere near the bottom:

      require_once("$IP/extensions/Interwiki/Interwiki.php");
      

   2. If you are using the older versions of this extension (which uses a SpecialInterwiki.php page in its files), add this to your LocalSettings.php, somewhere near the bottom:

      require_once("$IP/extensions/Interwiki/SpecialInterwiki.php");
      

4. Under that line, you have to add who can use Special:Interwiki.

If you want that sysops can use it:

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['interwiki'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['interwiki'] = true;

If you want an additional user group: (those with the 'userrights' permission can assign this group - bureaucrats by default)

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['interwiki'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['interwiki']['interwiki'] = true;

To enable transclusion from other sites, you'll need to set $wgEnableScaryTranscluding to true.

Note

This extension's entry in the list of Special pages is not the name of the extension. The entry in the list is defined by the interwiki message item defined per locale in SpecialInterwiki.i18n.php. For English locales, its value is View and edit interwiki data.

[edit] Download

• Latest — Interwiki files

[edit] Change log

21-11-07

• Extension is now maintained in SVN. Log is now at http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/Interwiki/
• Supported by translatewiki.net, that means more translations.

14-11-07

• Better lay-out of the add and delete form
• Reorganizing the messages

10-11-07

• Changing Dutch translation

18-10-07

• Fixing wrong "(local: $3) (trans: $4)" to correct "(trans: $3) (local: $4)" in the interwiki log.
• Use localized error message and better lay-out of error message.
• Removing never used messages.

16-10-07

• Use 'delete' message of core system messages instead of 'interwiki_delbutton' --> more translations available.

15-10-07

• Use 'delete' message of core system messages instead of 'interwiki_delete' --> more translations available.

13-10-07

• Link from Special:Log/interwiki to Special:Interwiki.
• Use i18n file by default.

12-10-07

• (i18n) German translation.
• (i18n) Some Latin (la) translations.
• (i18n) Translated 'delete' into random languages, from core system messages.

02-09-07

• (i18n) Dutch (nl) translation.
• (i18n) Russian (ru) translation.

25-12-06

• (i18n) French (fr) translation.

(changes before 05-2006 not added)

[edit] Setting up interlanguage links

To set up interlanguage links using this extension, make sure that $wgInterwikiMagic is set to true and $wgHideInterlanguageLinks is set to false (they are like this by default, you don't need to change them usually). Then go to Special:Interwiki as a user with the appropriate permissions. For example, if the French version of your wiki was located at http://fr.foowiki.tld/wiki/, you could add http://fr.foowiki.tld/wiki/$1 to the interwiki table with values trans 0 and local 0. Then the interlanguage link to the French version would work.

[edit] See also

• Extension:InterWiki