Manual:Extensions/id

Ekstensi akan memodifikasi bagaimana tampilan dan kinerja
 * Pengguna wiki dapat mencari melalui ekstensi.
 * Pengurus sistem dapat memasang (atau menghapus) ekstensi di pemasangan MediaWiki yang mereka kelola.
 * Pengembang dapat membuat ekstensi baru atau menambah atau memelihara ekstensi.

Dimana beberapa ekstensi dipelihara oleh pengembang MediaWiki, yang lainnya juga di buat oleh pengembang pihak ketiga. Hasilnya, banyak masalah, dan itu tidak semua terjamin kompatibel dengan yang lainnya. Beberapa yang tidak dipelihara; tidak semua ekstensi bekerja dengan semua versi MediaWiki. Menggunakan banyak ekstensi, bilamana berlabel tidak aman, maka akan beresiko. Jika kamu menggunakan ekstensi yang memerlukan tambalan ke inti perangkat lunak, pastikan Anda mencadangkan basis data. Bantuan ini mengurangi resiko kegagalan wiki Anda.

Browsing extensions
Anda dapat menelusuri Category:Extensions by category atau Extension Matrix guna melihat berbagai macam ekstensi yang telah ditulis. Untuk informasi tentang menginstal ekstensi-ekstensi tersebut atau menulisnya sendiri, lihat di bawah ini.

Checking installed extensions
Only someone with administration access to the filesystem (and often the database too) on a server can install extensions for MediaWiki, but anyone can check which extensions are active on an instance of MediaWiki by accessing the Special:Version page. For example, these extensions are active in the English Wikipedia.

Installing an extension
MediaWiki is ready to accept extensions just after installation is finished. To add an extension follow these steps:


 * 1) Before you start
 * Many extensions provide instructions designed for installation using unix commands. You require shell access (SSH) to enter these commands listed on the extension help pages.
 * 1) Download your extension.
 * Extension Distributor helps you to select and download most of the popular extensions.
 * Extensions are usually distributed as modular packages. They generally go in their own subdirectory of .  A list of extensions stored in the Wikimedia Git repository is located at git:mediawiki/extensions. Some extensions don't use version control and are not recommended.
 * Some extensions are also available in bundles, or package repositories.
 * 1) Install your extension..
 * At the end of the  file, add:
 * This line forces the PHP interpreter to read the extension file, and thereby make it accessible to MediaWiki.
 * Some extensions can conflict with maintenance scripts, for example if they directly access $_SERVER (not recommended).
 * In this case they can be wrapped in the conditional so maintenance scripts can still run.
 * In this case they can be wrapped in the conditional so maintenance scripts can still run.


 * The maintenance script will fail for any extension which requires customized namespaces which is included inside the conditional above such as,.



Upgrading an extension
Some extensions require to be updated whenever you update MediaWiki, while others work with multiple versions. To upgrade to a new version of an extension:


 * 1) Download the new version of the extension
 * 2) Replace all the extension files in the  directory with the new files. Do not remove the extension configuration present in LocalSettings.php
 * 3) If the extension requires changes to the MediaWiki database, you will need to run the Update.php maintenance script. Most extensions will mention if this script needs to be run or not. (Perform backup of your data before executing the script). If you don't have command line access, you can also use the web updater.

Uninstalling an extension
Remove the line from LocalSettings.php with the extension name to uninstall it:


 * You must remove any lines pertaining to the configuration of the extension.
 * If the extension provides any database changes, you must run to remove them.