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Hey everyone I'm setting up a local mediawiki side and I need some recommendation about extensions, I'm hoping there is a clever soul out there that could assist me :). This wiki side will be focused on troubleshooting and will have a lot articles with pictures in it. What features I would like to see are:

• Being able to adjust the sidebar to the left.
• Have a CategoryTree so it is easy to navigate between articles.
• Be able to select different tabs on each selected topic after selecting them from the sidebar, the tabs would be on the top similar to a browser.
• Better search engine
• Better way to add pictures into wiki, preferably drag and drop.
• Simpler way to create a new wiki link with pictures and some basic modifications (such as making a header and make a text bold). This is to allow more people to add in articles without much complications.

I have looked around and found few possible contenders to select from but I would like to see what you guys could recommend. If there are other extensions that you also recommend I would love to hear about them. Any assistance is greatly appreciated

Manual:Interface/Sidebar and Extension:CategoryTree for the first two items if you check the manual and use the search on this site; terms like "better" and "simpler" are way too subjective to answer without a description of problems that you actually try to solve.

I apologize for the sidebar question and the lack of information, I understand it can be frustrating to get these kind of questions but my current situation prevents me from spending to much time into this. I still want to make it as good as possible for the people that will be using it with the limited time i have. I'm thankful for your answer.

• For the tabbed extensions I will try out the first link that came up in google(http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Header_Tabs) and will if that will work.

• What I'm hoping for in the search engine is that it would be able to find incomplete or similar words so even if you type in something that is just 1 letter away or if you type in a word with . in it (like writing john instead of john.wiki.com) I would like the search engine to find it. This might be bit far fetched but it would the users life much easier.

• When I mentioned making it easier to put stuff into wiki I just want the most user friendly interface known to set up articles(for people that don't remember all the wiki commands, like for headers)

• Lastly the pictures, since the users have to upload tons of pictures with the articles they write I'm hoping for a easier way to upload alot of pictures at the same time or being able to do it while writing the article.

I would be really thankful if you could be of more assistance. If there are any other plugin known that are just generally really good for mediawiki I would love to hear about them as well.

As far as the files there's Extension:MsUpload, which has a "drag & drop" function.