Manual:$wgExtensionCredits

Details
An array of extension types and inside that their names, versions, authors and urls. This credit information get added to the wiki's Special:Version page, allowing users to see which extensions are installed, and find more information about them.

This is not a configuration settings mentioned in LocalSettings.php. Typically extension developers will write code which appends to the array contained in this global variable.

See Manual:Extensions

Usage
Extension developers can append to the array with the following code:

version and url keys are optional, and can be omitted.

In version 1.12 and newer, descriptionmsg will override description. The value of descriptionmsg will be treated as the name of the message used for the description.

$type must be one of the following:
 * specialpage - extensions that add special pages
 * parserhook - extensions that modifies, adds or replaces functionality in the MediaWiki parser
 * variable (added in 1.6.0)
 * media (added in 1.11) - media handlers
 * other

Description and author fields get parsed as wiki syntax.