Mediawiki-extensions under Debian

The Debian mediawiki-extensions package

Under Debian 5.0 "Lenny", there exists a package named mediawiki-extensions that contains a number of useful extensions that you're quite likely to find useful. The included extensions are:

• Cite -- add tags for citation purpose
• GeSHi -- add tags for syntax highlighting
• Inputbox -- add predefined HTML forms to wiki pages
• NewestPages -- show the lsat pages added to the wiki
• Poem -- add tags for poems
• SpecialLastUserLogin -- special page to see a user last logins
• ParserFunctions -- collection of parser functions
• PageCSS -- parser hook to add per-page CSS
• FootNote -- add footnote to your article
• SpecialRenameuser -- special page to rename users
• LdapAuthentication -- user authentication using LDAP
• CategoryTree -- dynamic view of the wiki's category structure
• ConfirmEdit -- very simple text Captcha
• FancyCaptcha -- more comples image captchas (needs ConfirmEdit)

The installation of this package is, as usual, very straightforward. Run apt-get install mediawiki-extensions, or use aptitude to get this package installed.

After installation, the following directories get created:

/etc/mediawiki-extensions
     |-- extensions-available
     `-- extensions-enabled
/usr/share/mediawiki-extensions
           `-- maintenance