Extension:UsabilityInitiative

The development of this extension was driven by the Wikipedia Usability Initiative. The features this extension provided were either core features of the objectives of this initiative, or supporting features which assisted in the deployment of the core features and statistics gathering for analysis.

Installation
If you need to install Vector and WikiEditor on MediaWiki 1.16 (or 1.16.5), you will need to use the 1.16 release branch version.

Installation for 1.16
This is an example of how you can activate WikiEditor and the Vector collapsiblenav module (amongst others) for everyone in your LocalSettings.php file for 1.16.5 (using the 1.16 release version of the UsabilityInitiative). Tested on a 1.16.5 install:
 * 1) Get the 1.16 release branch version and drop it into MediaWiki directory /extensions.
 * 2) Setup your as explained in 1.16 release branch README file.
 * 3) To activate WikiEditor for everyone, instead of having the users turn it on explicitly, in  change the      values to   so that it looks like the source below.
 * 4) To active a Vector module for everyone, like   (for the left nav menu), add it as an array entry to  . E.g add  . Ensure the   value is set to true. See below for an example.
 * 5) Edit any page in your wiki and you should see the WikiEditor.
 * 6) No need to run.

This is an example configuration of Vector modules and WikiEditor in your LocalSettings.php file for the 1.16 (using the 1.16 release version of the UsabilityInitiative):

Installation for 1.17.0

 * 1) Get the extension with distributor or svn and drop it into MediaWiki directory /extensions
 * 2) Setup your as explained in README file.
 * 3) Run  from the command line (see  and also here)