Extension:UsabilityInitiative

The development of this extension was driven by the Wikimedia Usability Initiative. This extension provided both user interface enhancements and support code for deployment and research.

'''The components of this extension have all now been moved out to their own extensions. Some have been made compatible with ResourceLoader and are no longer compatible with MediaWiki 1.16.


 * The two most general purpose extension from the Usaiblity Initiative work are:
 * Vector - Enhancements for the Vector skin
 * WikiEditor - Enhancements for the edit page


 * Other extensions were created to assist with conducting user research and gradual deployment:
 * ClickTracking - Basic statistics gathering
 * PrefSwitch - Single click opt-in/out of preferences
 * PrefStats - Analytics for user preference changes
 * UserDailyContribs - Support for click tracking, tacking contribution totals at each edit

Installation (for 1.16 compatible version)
If you need to install Vector and WikiEditor on MediaWiki 1.16, you will need to use the 1.16 release branch version.


 * 1) Get the extension with distributor or SVN and drop it into MediaWiki directory /extensions
 * 2) * If the above downloads do not work for you (WikiEditor having Paste problems in Firefox) you can download and try this release: 1.16 Working UsabilityInitiative
 * 3) Setup your as explained in README file.

This is an example, stable configuration for the 1.16 release version: