Extension:Wikibase Client

About
Client to the Wikibase extension which acts as structured data repository.

noexternalinterlang
noexternalinterlang (short for "no external interlanguage") is a magic word and a parser function which can turn this extension off for a specific page, or suppress some of the interlanguage links produced by the extension.

If used on its own, as, it will turn this extension off. Only the interlanguage links that are present in the wikitext will be used. Sorting of the links will also be turned off, unless alwaysSort option is turned on. The same effect is achieved if it is used as a function, with an asterisk: (asterisk "matches" all the languages).

If used as a function, with parameters, only the links to the languages of the parameters will be removed. For example, will remove the links to French and Indonesian languages. Same effect can be achieved by invoking the function repeatedly:. Note that the remaining links will now be sorted, which means that wikitext links will be sorted even if French and Indonesian links were the only ones existing. It is safe to remove the link of a non-existing language.

Requirements
requires:


 * MediaWiki 1.20 or above
 * PHP 5.3 or above

Download
TODO

Installation
Once you have downloaded the code, place the WikibaseClient directory within your MediaWiki 'extensions' directory. Then add the following code to your LocalSettings.php file:

For testing purposes, you may use maintenance/populateInterwiki.php script which will populate interwiki table of your wiki with interwikis from English Wikipedia. This means that you will have all the Wikipedia language links ready for testing.

Configuration
Configuration of is done by assigning to members of $egWBCSettings array in your LocalSettings.php file. The options are listed below and their default is set in the settings file. You should NOT modify the settings file, but can have a look at it to get an idea of how to use the settings, in case the below descriptions do not suffice.

An example of how to change the settings:

Available settings:

namespaces
Array. An array of namespaces in which the extension will work.

Default: the extension will work only in the main namespace.

sort
String. Selects the sort method you want to use for the interlanguage links. Currently, it recognizes four sort methods:
 * 'code': By language code (auto-languagecode)
 * 'alphabetic': By language name (meta-native-languagename)
 * 'alphabetic_revised': By language name (alternative) (meta-native-languagename-firstword</tt>)
 * 'none'</tt>: Don't sort. Basically, the order of the links is not guaranteed.

Default: 'none'</tt> sort mode.

sortPrepend
Array. Modifies the sort method so that it sorts certain languages at the top of the list of languages, regardless of their general sort order. It should be set to an array that has values set to desired language codes, in desired order. For example, to put English and then Simple English at the top of the list of languages, set it to array( 'en', 'simple' )</tt>. It is even possible to make an entire custom sort array with all the languages, that will completely override any of the sorting methods.

Default: the sort will be used unmodified.

alwaysSort
Boolean. Always sort the links, even when the extension is not used.

By default, the extension will not sort the links if it is not used: whether on pages outside of the defined namespaces, or if it is suppressed by the noexternalinterlang magic word. In these cases, by default, the links on the page will be shown in order they are in wikitext, which is the MediaWiki default. However, if alwaysSort is turned on (set to true), then the links will be sorted even if these cases.

Note that even if alwaysSort is off, the extension will still sort the links if there are no links in the repository, or each of the links is individually suppressed by noexternalinterlang.

Default: don't always sort.

Version
This is a copy of the release notes file on GIT, which might be more up to date then this page.

Internationalization
is fully internationalized. Translation of messages is done through translatewiki.net. The translation for this extension can be found here. To add language values or change existing ones, you should create an account on translatewiki.net, then request permission from the administrators to translate a certain language or languages on this page (this is a very simple process). Once you have permission for a given language, you can log in and add or edit whatever messages you want to in that language.