Extension:EditSimilar

EditSimilar is an extension that suggests editing of similar articles upon saving an article. It was originally written by Bartek Łapiński and Łukasz Garczewski for Wikia.

It finds and suggests another article that may need attention or improvement when a user saves an edit. It is designed to help users decide what to do next, and boost the number of edits on a wiki.

The suggestions are only displayed when saving in the main article namespace, and will not show up on talk pages, project pages and other namespaces.

By default, the message is set to appear after every five qualifying article edits. The frequency of messages can be adjusted by a global variable.

Installation

 * 1) Download the files from SVN
 * 2) Add  to LocalSettings.php
 * 3) Installation can now be verified through Special:Version
 * 4) You also have to perform some basic setup. Edit the MediaWiki:EditSimilar-Categories article and populate it with category names you designate as "stubs". For example:


 * Stub Category 1
 * Stub Category 2
 * Stub Category 3

Those will be needed to determine relevant or suggested articles.

Configuration
Apart from editing MediaWiki:EditSimilar-Categories article, you can set additional parameters:
 * $wgEditSimilarMaxResultsPool - this is the maximum pool of results to choose randomly from (defaults to 50)
 * $wgEditSimilarMaxResultsToDisplay - this is the maximum number of chosen results to display (defaults to 3)
 * $wgEditSimilarCounterValue - this specifies per which number of edits show the results' message (defaults to 1, which means that every time results are found the message is shown)
 * $wgEditSimilarAlwaysShowThanks - whether to thank for an edit even on no results (unset by default, set to true if you want to have that)

Licensing and downloads
The extension is available under the GNU General Public License 2.0 or later, and can be downloaded from Subversion, or accessed via the web-based viewer.

The software is provided as-is. Updates will be made according to the needs of Wikimedia wikis; or where critical vulnerabilities are discovered.