Extension:Interwiki

This is an extension to add a Special:Interwiki page to MediaWiki, to view and manipulate the interwiki table, and a log of any actions made with it. It was made by Stephanie Amanda Stevens a.k.a Phroziac, because she was annoyed at forgetting the interwiki prefixes. It's made for MediaWiki 1.6 onwards, and has been reported to also work on 1.5.

Warning: this extension originally had security bugs, which are fixed in the current version.

Installation

 * 1) Create a new directory 'SpecialInterwiki' in your 'extensions' directory.
 * 2) Download SpecialInterwiki.php and SpecialInterwiki.i18n.php (see the infobox for download links), and put these files in the new 'SpecialInterwiki' directory. Make sure you have renamed the downloaded files from index.php into SpecialInterwiki.php and SpecialInterwiki.i18n.php!
 * 3) Add this to your LocalSettings.php, somewhere near the bottom:
 * 4) Under that line, you have to add who can use Special:Interwiki.
 * If you want that sysops can use it:


 * If you want an additional user group: (those with the 'userrights' permission can assign this group - bureaucrats by default)

Changes

 * 14-11-07
 * Better lay-out of the add and delete form
 * Reorganizing the messages


 * 10-11-07
 * Changing Dutch translation


 * 18-10-07
 * Fixing wrong "(local: $3) (trans: $4)" to correct "(trans: $3) (local: $4)" in the interwiki log.
 * Use localized error message and better lay-out of error message.
 * Removing never used messages.


 * 16-10-07
 * Use 'delete' message of core system messages instead of 'interwiki_delbutton' --> more translations available.


 * 15-10-07
 * Use 'delete' message of core system messages instead of 'interwiki_delete' --> more translations available.


 * 13-10-07
 * Link from Special:Log/interwiki to Special:Interwiki.
 * Use i18n file by default.


 * 12-10-07
 * (i18n) German translation.
 * (i18n) Some Latin (la) translations.
 * (i18n) Translated 'delete' into random languages, from core system messages.


 * 02-09-07
 * (i18n) Dutch (nl) translation.
 * (i18n) Russian (ru) translation.


 * 25-12-07
 * (i18n) French (fr) translation.

(changes before 05-2006 not added)

Setting up interlanguage links
To set up interlanguage links using this extension, make sure that $wgInterwikiMagic is set to true and $wgHideInterlanguageLinks is set to false (they are like this by default, you don't need to change them usually). Then go to Special:Interwiki as a user with the appropriate permissions. For example, if the French version of your wiki was located at  http://fr.foowiki.tld/wiki/ , you could add  http://fr.foowiki.tld/wiki/$1  to the interwiki table with values trans 0 and local 0. Then the interlanguage link to the French version would work.

Sites using this extension

 * http://cvn.dyndns.org/wiki/Special:Interwiki
 * http://www.battlestarwiki.org/ (different wikis)
 * http://commons.dlrpwiki.org/Special:Version (different wikis)
 * http://meta.enterwiki.net/page/Special:Interwiki