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| Theme | Allows using themes of skins | 1.17 | 1 Oct 2013 | 5 Feb 2013 | 24 Dec 2010 | Ryan Schmidt Jack Phoenix
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| SysopSidebar | Provides a means of customizing the 'sidebar' based upon the user's membership to the 'sysop' group. | 1 Oct 2013 | 7 Sep 2012 | 4 May 2007 | user:jldupont
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| MetaMan | Extends the edit mode of wiki pages by adding a UI for easier metadata management. Categories and properties (Semantic Media Wiki) can easily be removed and suggestions are made based on similar pages in the wiki. | 1.19 | 29 Sep 2012 | 1 Oct 2013 | 7 Sep 2012 | 6 Sep 2009 | Timo Taglieber
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| FooterManager | Allow footer configuration. | 1.17 | 7 Sep 2011 | 1 Oct 2013 | 2 Jun 2013 | 25 Jul 2011 | SimonLitt
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| MHTML | Displays MHTML content in an IFRAME | 1.11 | 2 Feb 2009 | 1 Oct 2013 | 8 Dec 2008 | Joel Peshkin
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| SuppressExternalLinks | Modifies links external to the wiki so they cannot be clicked. | 1.17 | 11 Jul 2011 | 1 Oct 2013 | 7 Sep 2012 | 11 Jul 2011 | Big Z
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| Bootstrap | Provides the Twitter Bootstrap web front-end framework | 4 May 2013 | 1 Oct 2013 | 14 Jun 2013 | 18 May 2013 | Stephan Gambke
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| LightboxThumbs | Displays full-size images with Lightbox 2 when clicking on thumbnails. | 3 Aug 2010 | 1 Oct 2013 | 17 Oct 2012 | 23 Sep 2007 |
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| Nostalgia | Provides the skin according to how Wikipedia looked in 2001 | 1 Oct 2013 | 27 Apr 2013 | 27 Apr 2013 |
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| Chat | Adds a Chat tab to every article that links to an embedded chatroom by the same name. | 1.6, 1.9, 1.15, 1.19 | 30 Aug 2012 | 1 Oct 2013 | 5 Jun 2013 | 23 Mar 2007 |
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| FloatingToolbar | Adds a strip to the bottom of the window. Contents and visibility are set in LocalSettings.php | 1 Oct 2013 | 18 Sep 2010 |
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| DynamicSkin | This extension allows the skin layout and content to be defined using normal wikitext articles instead of PHP script files, and to be modified dynamically depending on the contents of each page. | 6 Sep 2007 | 1 Oct 2013 | 22 Sep 2012 | 22 Aug 2007 | Eric Hartwell
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| PatchOutput | Patch the HTML representation of a page. | 2 Aug 2013 | 1 Oct 2013 | 6 Aug 2013 | 30 May 2007 |
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| Uservoice | Provides a widget to access UserVoice. | 6 Jul 2013 | 1 Oct 2013 | 8 Jul 2013 | 6 Jul 2013 | Daniel Schuba
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| WYSIWYG | The WYSIWYG extension allows the easy insertion and enhanced editing of formatted data like tables, headings, enumerations etc. while they are displayed exactly like the final output. | 1.16, 1.17 | 25 Apr 2012 | 4 Oct 2013 | 30 Sep 2013 | 30 Dec 2010 | ontoprise GmbH
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| MobileDetect | Detects mobile devices and returns true or false depending on browsers user agent. | 1.15, 1.16 | 8 Aug 2010 | 1 Oct 2013 | 7 Sep 2012 | 8 Aug 2010 | Matthew Tran
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| ZeroRatedMobileAccess | Provides features for mobile providers that provide free access to Wikipedia | 1 Oct 2013 | 15 Jan 2013 | 21 Dec 2011 | Yuri Astrakhan
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| Sarcasm | Adds sarcasm tags to the wiki that can be used for indicating text as sarcastic | 2 Feb 2013 | 1 Oct 2013 | 12 Feb 2013 | 30 Jan 2013 |
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| RemoveSubpagestr | Allows to remove links from certain subpages back to their root page. | 1.10 | 14 Jun 2007 | 1 Oct 2013 | 7 Sep 2012 | 14 Jun 2007 | Matthew Vickery
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| LiveFeed | Provides several useful tools including the Live Traffic Feed widget that allows you to see what is happening on your wiki/blog right now. | 1.6 | 1 Oct 2013 | 27 Nov 2008 | Mohan S. Cheema
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| Blackout | For use during blackouts in protest to SOPA/PIPA and Internet censorship. | 22 Jan 2012 | 1 Oct 2013 | 7 Sep 2012 | 17 Jan 2012 | John Du Hart and Gregory Varnum
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| GeeQuBox | Displays full-size images with the jquery lightbox plugin when clicking on thumbnails. | 1.16 | 13 Feb 2011 | 1 Oct 2013 | 7 Sep 2012 | 13 Feb 2011 | David Raison
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| Terminology | Enable a Glossary or define Terminology within MediaWiki using tooltips. | 1.6 | 28 Aug 2008 | 4 Oct 2013 | 7 Sep 2012 | 29 May 2008 | BarkerJr with modifications by Benjamin Kahn (xkahn <at> zoned <dot> net)
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| PageInfo | A info-box near the table of contents or at the top of a wiki page. Informations about creation, edits and views. | 1.15, 1.16 | 1 Oct 2013 | 7 Sep 2012 | 14 Feb 2011 | Philipp Glatza, le-tex publishing services GmbH
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| MpDisqus | Integrates Disqus commenting service at bottom of each page | 1.16 | 13 Sep 2010 | 1 Oct 2013 | 29 Dec 2012 | 28 Oct 2009 |
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| WikiCategoryTagCloud | Allows to add tag clouds based on categories to a page | 1.17 | 11 Jul 2012 | 1 Oct 2013 | 23 May 2013 | 22 Aug 2007 | Daniel Friesen
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| Agora | Adds skin-agnostic styles to MediaWiki | 1.19 | 4 Apr 2013 | 1 Oct 2013 | 15 Feb 2013 | 16 Nov 2012 | Rob Moen, Trevor Parscal, Munaf Assaf
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| LiveHelp | Integrated LiveHelp interface through jQuery UI. | 1 Oct 2013 | 7 Sep 2012 | 4 Jul 2011 |
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| Site Meter for MediaWiki | Adds 'Site Meter' traffic statistic monitoring to MediaWiki. | 1 Oct 2013 | 7 Sep 2012 | 22 Aug 2010 | Lewis Cawte
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| CSS Dropdowns | CSS dropdown in the Sitenotice - the area at the top of the page for the entire wiki | 1 Oct 2013 | 24 Sep 2013 | 5 Nov 2006 | ThePlaz
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| BADI Pages Created Links | Allows display of links in toolbox to other wiki or wiki-like sites whereby links will be colored differently depending on whether the page there has been created yet or not. Status determined by response code or Last-Modified HTTP HEAD requests. | 1.15 | 3 Jun 2010 | 1 Oct 2013 | 3 Jun 2010 |
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| AdManager | Allows setting an ad zone for individual pages or categories | 1.17 | 4 Sep 2012 | 1 Oct 2013 | 7 Sep 2012 | 3 Oct 2011 | Ike Hecht
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| AddPersonalUrls | Add some items to the personal URLs. | 2 Aug 2013 | 1 Oct 2013 | 2 Aug 2013 | 31 May 2007 |
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| Halo Extension | The Halo extension is an extension to Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) and has been developed in order to facilitate the use of Semantic Wikis for a large community of users. | 4 May 2012 | 1 Oct 2013 | 20 Dec 2012 | 11 Oct 2007 | ontoprise GmbH
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| WikiShare | Adds social media sharing capabilities, without sending any user data, to wikis using sidebar portlet and page toolbar. With user preferences enabling/disabling the feature and individual services. Wiki SysAdmin settings to control the look, placement and appearance of the toolbar. | 4 Dec 2011 | 1 Oct 2013 | 19 Feb 2013 | 4 Dec 2011 | Gregory Varnum
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| Topbar | Adds Topbar navigation to Mediawiki. A part of a suite of extensions by Writh.net aimed at combining the beauty of Wikidot with the power of MediaWiki. | 19 Jan 2012 | 1 Oct 2013 | 6 Feb 2013 | 19 Jan 2012 | Kevin Kragenbrink
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| CategoryHistory | Shows changes of all articles belonging to a category. | 1.19 | 30 Jul 2012 | 1 Oct 2013 | 7 Sep 2012 | 30 Jul 2012 | Josef MartiĆĂĄk
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| SidebarDonateBox | Adds a PayPal donate button to the sidebar | 1 Oct 2013 | 7 Sep 2012 | 31 Jul 2010 | Daniel Friesen
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| AddThis | Adds an AddThis widget as a portlet to sidebar and displays expanded widget as a toolbar in articles. Expanded widget toolbar is also available using <addthis /> tag. | 6 Jan 2012 | 1 Oct 2013 | 8 Sep 2013 | 19 Nov 2011 | Gregory Varnum
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| Google AdSense 2 | Allows to add Google AdSense to the sidebar | 1.18 | 17 Aug 2012 | 1 Oct 2013 | 27 Sep 2013 | 26 Aug 2008 | Siebrand Mazeland
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| PCR GUI Inserts | Lets you easily add pieces of HTML code at several useful places of the GUI. Can be used for instance to insert any stat-tracking code (Google Analytics, Piwik...), additional boxes in the sidebar (a search box, ads, a donation link...), meta tags, and more. | 1.16 | 2 Mar 2011 | 1 Oct 2013 | 19 Dec 2012 | 9 Aug 2010 | David Dernoncourt
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| HoverGallery | Adds <hovergallery> tags that create galleries like the standard ones, except that when the mouse hovers over the thumbnails, the full-size images are displayed.
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17 Jun 2013 | 1 Oct 2013 | 21 Apr 2013 | 19 Apr 2013 | Felipe Schenone
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| WordPressPosts | Lists recent WordPress blog posts in the MediaWiki sidebar. | 25 Dec 2009 | 1 Oct 2013 | 25 Dec 2009 |
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| MooTools 1.2 Core | Adds mootools-1.2-core-yc.js to each page | 1.12 | 18 Jul 2008 | 1 Oct 2013 | 7 Sep 2012 | 18 Jul 2008 | The MooTools Dev Team
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| Ads | Inserts adverts in the navigation bar. It can also insert other HTML tags. | 1.18 | 12 Jun 2013 | 1 Oct 2013 | 24 Jun 2013 | 12 Jun 2013 | Miguel PelĂĄez
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| Reflect | Reflect provides a second column to threaded talkpages. In the second column, anyone can add a bullet point summarizing some point that the commenter was making. The goal is to help make large discussions more meaningful by improving the experience of participating as well as making it easier to identify the takeaways. | 1 Oct 2013 | 22 Apr 2013 | 2 Aug 2010 | Travis Kriplean
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| WikiSkin | Using normal wikitext articles to define skin content and layout. | 1.6, 1.11 | 16 Oct 2007 | 1 Oct 2013 | 7 Sep 2012 | 5 Apr 2007 | Nad
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| TimezoneSelector | Allows to show timezone settings and change temporarily timezone setting | 1.18 | 5 May 2013 | 1 Oct 2013 | 1 May 2013 | 29 Apr 2013 |
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| TweetANew | Tweets when a page is created or edited. Depending on preferences set for the entire wiki, either automatically or from the edit page. | 30 Dec 2011 | 1 Oct 2013 | 17 Aug 2013 | 23 Jul 2011 | Gregory Varnum merging extensions by Joachim De Schrijver, Andrew Fitzgerald, Wendell Gaudencio, and Rohit Keshwani
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| SpecialTalk | Adds a talk tab to Special Pages | 1.6 | 5 Apr 2011 | 1 Oct 2013 | 7 Sep 2012 | 2 Oct 2010 | Ăvar ArnfjörĂ° Bjarmason
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| Lingo | Provides hover-over tool tips on pages from words defined on a wiki page | 1.16 | 7 Apr 2013 | 4 Oct 2013 | 2 Oct 2013 | 9 Jan 2011 | Barry Coughlan Stephan Gambke
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| E3 Experiments | Bootstrapper for Editor Engagement Experiments | 1 Oct 2013 | 21 Aug 2013 | 23 May 2012 | Matt Flaschen, Ori Livneh, S Page
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| EnhancedReportTime | Displays enhanced information about generation time of wiki pages | 19 Aug 2013 | 4 Oct 2013 | 15 Jul 2013 | 14 Jul 2013 | DÄvis MoĆĄenkovs
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| Google Translator | Adds Google Translator box to the sidebar | 1.15 | 17 Jun 2010 | 1 Oct 2013 | 18 Jun 2013 | 17 Jun 2010 | Joachim De Schrijver
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| Tab Override | Allows you to use the tab key as you normally would in a text-editor | 1.7 | 12 Apr 2010 | 1 Oct 2013 | 7 Sep 2012 | 13 Apr 2010 | Bill Bryant, Mathew Tinsley
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| AdvancedSkinSystem | AdvancedSkinSystem implements a flexible skinning framework for your wiki. Skins can be changed on the fly depending on namespace or category and are completely editable from the wiki-interface (if your user is equipped with sufficient rights). | 1 Oct 2013 | 7 Sep 2012 | 15 May 2008 | Jamasi
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| SmoothGallery | Allows users to give a delimited list of images, and output a css/javascript gallery | 1.6, 1.7 | 19 Jan 2012 | 1 Oct 2013 | 18 Oct 2012 | 2 Jan 2007 | Mathias Lidal
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| BreadCrumbs2 | Provides breadcrumb navigation based on categories | 1.10 | 1 Aug 2013 | 4 Oct 2013 | 19 May 2013 | 6 Sep 2007 | Eric Hartwell, Ike Hecht
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| SectionDisqus | Adds a "Discuss" button next to the "Edit" button of every section, that when clicked, opens a Disqus thread for that section. | 16 Aug 2013 | 1 Oct 2013 | 25 Aug 2013 | 16 Aug 2013 | Felipe Schenone
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| WikiBhasha | Tool to help Multilingual content creation in Wikipedia | 1.16 | 25 Oct 2010 | 1 Oct 2013 | 7 Sep 2012 | 26 Oct 2010 | WikiBhasha.MSR
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| ExtIdx (Extended Index) | ExtIdx, a MediaWiki extension that extends the page index with the index of (in the headlines) referred pages. | 1.13 | 23 Jun 2008 | 1 Oct 2013 | 23 Jun 2008 | Markus Szumovski
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| MoveToSkin | A simple extension which allows skin designers to define areas of the skin to which content can be moved from the wiki text article using a parser function, it helps avoid a lot of the Javascript hacks that are otherwise necessary. | 1 Oct 2013 | 20 Oct 2012 |
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| SkinByUrl2 | Force use of a particular skin based on the URL used to access the wiki | 1 Oct 2013 | 14 Jan 2010 |
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| SectionHide | Adds a link alongside edit links to collapse and expand sections of the article | 1.19 | 5 Sep 2013 | 4 Oct 2013 | 5 Sep 2013 | 25 Jul 2013 | Simon Oliver
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| BlueSpice | MediaWiki distribution for business needs. More info | 1.19 | 12 Jun 2013 | 1 Oct 2013 | 20 Aug 2013 | 19 Nov 2010 | Hallo Welt! Medienwerkstatt GmbH
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| Quantcast | Adds Quantcast tracking JS code to all pages | 1.0, 1.11 | 12 Dec 2010 | 1 Oct 2013 | 22 Dec 2010 | Jack Phoenix
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| MobileSkin | Automatically detect iPhone or other mobile devices to select a skin appropriate for the device (overrides user's preference for desktop without changing the user setting). | 1.13 | 30 Apr 2009 | 1 Oct 2013 | 17 Oct 2012 | 15 Dec 2008 | Mark Daly
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| WikimediaShopLink | Extension to put geo located link to the Wikimedia Shop on the side bar for testing purposes. | 19 Jul 2012 | 1 Oct 2013 | 7 Sep 2012 | 19 Jun 2012 | James Alexander
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| HideSidebar | Hide sidebar from anonymous users | 1.14 | 7 Sep 2011 | 1 Oct 2013 | 19 Oct 2012 | 28 Apr 2010 | Jlerner
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| HighslideThumbs | Displays full-size images with HighSlide JS when clicking on thumbnails. | 1 Oct 2013 | 7 Sep 2012 | 2 May 2010 | TomFourWinds (Yury Katkov as supporter)
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| PreToClip | Adds a "Copy to clipboard"-Button to every <pre>-Tag | 1.19 | 12 Aug 2013 | 1 Oct 2013 | 13 Aug 2013 | 12 Aug 2013 | Thomas Candrian
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| SkinByURL | Force use of a particular skin based on the URL used to access the wiki | 1.10 | 1 Oct 2013 | 11 May 2009 |
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| TreeAndMenu | Creates dynamic dropdown and folder tree menus | 1.17 | 27 Feb 2013 | 4 Oct 2013 | 25 Aug 2013 | 19 Feb 2007 | Nad, Zven
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| SysSidebar | Makes "Recent changes" on the sidebar link to unpatrolled edits, for sysops | 1.15 | 30 Aug 2009 | 1 Oct 2013 | 27 Nov 2012 | 30 Aug 2009 |
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| ExpandCss | Expand the CSS Styles for your wiki without own skin | 1.6 | 10 Apr 2006 | 1 Oct 2013 | 30 Dec 2012 | 10 Apr 2006 | User:Ennox
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| JSBreadCrumbs | Adds a trail of breadcrumbs below the tab bar. | 1.16 | 8 Jul 2010 | 1 Oct 2013 | 14 Jan 2013 | 24 Jun 2010 | Ryan Lane
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| DynamicSidebar | Provides dynamic sidebars based on user pages, groups, and categories. | 1.17 | 4 Sep 2012 | 1 Oct 2013 | 23 Jul 2013 | 23 Feb 2010 | Ryan Lane
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| VisualEditor | Provides the VisualEditor to MediaWiki | 4 Oct 2013 | 2 Oct 2013 | 3 Nov 2011 |
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| NewPageCSS | Allows the inclusion of CSS style sheets within wiki pages | 1.16 | 16 Feb 2012 | 1 Oct 2013 | 10 Jun 2013 | 24 Nov 2010 | Julian Porter & Ăvar ArnfjörĂ° Bjarmason
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| GlobalCssJs | Allows global CSS and JS on a "central" wiki to be loaded for all wikis in the farm | 1.8 | 4 Oct 2013 | 7 Sep 2012 | 29 Jan 2008 | Ryan Schmidt
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| Semantic Tagbox | Adds a tagbox | 1.7, 1.18 | 4 Jan 2012 | 4 Oct 2013 | 7 Sep 2012 | 17 Mar 2012 | MWJames
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| Social Sidebar | Adds Links to Twitter and Facebook in the sidebar | 1.15 | 12 Sep 2011 | 4 Oct 2013 | 16 Jan 2013 | 24 Jul 2011 | Joachim De Schrijver
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| PostEdit | An extension to deliver a confirmation message post-edit | 25 Oct 2012 | 1 Oct 2013 | 16 Jul 2013 | 24 Sep 2012 | Munaf Assaf, Ori Livneh
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| UniversalLanguageSelector | Tool that allows users to select a language and configure its support in an easy way. | 30 Apr 2013 | 1 Oct 2013 | 9 Jul 2013 | 9 Jul 2012 | Language Engineering Team
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| PageAttachment | This extension extends MediaWiki to allow adding files to a page as attachments. | 1 Oct 2013 | 19 Mar 2013 | 13 Sep 2011 | Aldrin Baroi
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| CustomNavBlocks | Allows you to use normal MediaWiki-pages as contents of your Sidebar | 1.19 | 7 Oct 2012 | 1 Oct 2013 | 5 Jun 2013 | 18 Apr 2008 |
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| LinkHint | LinkHint gives you a simple preview of the inner links on a page | 1.10 | 27 Jul 2007 | 4 Oct 2013 | 7 Sep 2012 | 27 Jul 2007 | Nadav Wexler
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| ShareThis | Provides links to popular social bookmarking and news sources. | 1.6, 1.16 | 1 Oct 2013 | 19 Oct 2012 | 5 Mar 2007 | Jim R. Wilson (Jimbojw)
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| ClozeTest | Quiz tool for MediaWiki; automatic cloze test generation | 15 Apr 2011 | 1 Oct 2013 | 7 Sep 2012 | 15 Apr 2011 | Justin Drake
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