Extension:RPED

This is the Remote Page Existence Detection (RPED) extension.

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RemotePageExistenceDetection Release status: beta
Implementation	Hook, API
Description	Once equipped with a list of titles of pages existent on Wikipedia, this extension turns wikilinks to pages that don't exist on the local wiki different colors to reflect whether a page exists or not on Wikipedia.
Author(s)	TisaneTalk
Last version	1.0.0
MediaWiki	1.16+
PHP	5
License	Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License 3.0, GPL
Download	Download snapshot (Git master) Git [?]: repo summary • tree • code changes SVN [?]: checkout-url • tree • code changes
Example	http://libertapedia.org
Hooks used LinkBegin LoadExtensionSchemaUpdates
Check usage (experimental)

What can this extension do?

Once equipped with a list of titles of pages existent on Wikipedia, this extension turns wikilinks to pages that don't exist on the local wiki different colors to reflect whether a page exists or not on Wikipedia. E.g., if you link to Foo on your local wiki but that page does not exist there, the link will still turn blue, and link to w:en:Foo, if that article exists on Wikipedia.

Usage

Regular double-bracketed internal links will now link to Wikipedia when the article does not exist on the local wiki but exists on Wikipedia. Interwiki links such as wikipedia:Foo will detect whether the page exists on Wikipedia and turn red or blue accordingly.

To use the API, first use Special:UserRights to grant RPED rights to the user who will be inserting/deleting page titles from rped_table. Then use commands such as this:

http://libertapedia.org/w/api.php?action=rped&insert=Foo
http://libertapedia.org/w/api.php?action=rped&delete=Foo

You can also use piped parameters to insert/delete more than one at a time, e.g.:

http://libertapedia.org/w/api.php?action=rped&insert=Foo%7CBar

RPED will automatically detect whether Extension:PureWikiDeletion is active and, if so, treat blanked local pages as nonexistent.

Recommended policy

Situations may arise in which you have an option between having an article that is a one-line stub, or getting rid of that article so that wikilinks to it will link instead to the (much larger) Wikipedia article. Because high-quality, comprehensive articles may evolve from what begins as a one-line stub, you may wish to leave the one-line article in place and use a {{WP}} template like the following (after you upload Wikipedia-logo.png to your wiki):

<div class="noprint" style="clear: right; border: solid #aaa 1px; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; font-size: 90%; background: #f9f9f9; width: 250px; padding: 4px; spacing: 0px; text-align: left; float: right;"> <div style="float: left;"> [[Image:Wikipedia-logo.png|50px]]</div> <div style="margin-left: 60px;">There is also an article about [[Wikipedia:{{PAGENAME}}|{{PAGENAME}}]] at [[Wikipedia]].</div> </div>

Installation

Add this to your LocalSettings.php file:

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

Then run update.php to create the rped_page table.

Next, populate the rped_page table. It is recommended that you download all-titles-in-ns0.gz from the most recent data dump atdownload:enwiki/and use the Peachy RPED scripts to populate the table.

Configuration settings

$wgRPEDBrokenLinkStyle

This is the color for broken interwiki links, e.g. wikipedia:This page does not exist. Default:

$wgRPEDBrokenLinkStyle = "color: red";

$wgRPEDExcludeNamespaced

If set to true, this will cause the extension to ignore interwiki links such as wikipedia:Wikipedia:AFD. This is useful because presently, the list of page titles that Wikimedia provides only contains page titles in the mainspace. Default:

$wgRPEDExcludeNamespaced = false;

$wgRemoteStyle

This is the color that links to Wikipedia, such as Comparison of Linux distributions, will appear when those pages are in the rped_table. Default:

$wgRemoteStyle = 'color: blue'; // Remote links are blue

External link

• http://compwhizii.net/peachy/wiki/Manual/RPED — Information on Peachy framework RPED-related plugins/scripts