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My extension currently shows "⧼myextention⧽" when I am on Special:SpecialPages, instead of the extension's actual name.

I have read Manual:Developing_extensions a few times and have examined the extensions that come with MediaWiki, and I still can't figure out what piece makes the name appear on SpecialPages.

Can someone point me in the right direction?

(Edit: my extension is just a Special page; it's not a parser function or anything else.)

Does the name show on Special:Version?

That display means that you haven't defined a message key with that key either doesn't exist, or you've made it but not registered it.

For example of a special page, see VisualEditor's Special:CollabPad experimental feature, in includes/SpecialCollabPad.php and the keys defined in i18n/ve-mw/en.json#23 and linked via extension.json#113 (which is more complex than you probably need).

*embarrassed laugh* Oops - it turns out that the problem was a small typo. The folder I declared in extension.json > MessagesDirs > Extension didn't match the name of the folder in my extension's directory.

Thanks for your help, Jdforrester.