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[RESOLVED] Turn MediaWiki into something like Wikinews?

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80.216.187.111 (talkcontribs)

How would one do to turn his MediaWiki into more of a site like Wikinews? I pretty much want all the features from that site.

Thank you very much!

Bawolff (talkcontribs)

Hi. Basically Wikinews has a bunch of extensions installed. Their is a full list at n:special:version. The most noticable of these are probably extension:Intersection (DPL), extension:ParserFunctions and extension:GoogleNewsSitemap (used for RSS feeds). Various other extensions are also used, but are more in the background. Additionally Wikinews uses some custom javascript to modify the interface. There's a [possibly outdated] overview at n:Wikinews:Javascript (For example, Easy peer review, WN:MAKELEAD are all in JS). The javascript is rather poorly written (or at least the parts I wrote are ;) and sometimes can involve effort to move to a different site.

If there is any specific Wikinews feature I missed let me know.

80.216.187.111 (talkcontribs)

Thank you so much! That's just the information I needed!

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