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Installed software
| Product | Version |
|---|---|
| MediaWiki | 1.12.0 (r7717) |
| PHP | 5.3.5 (fpm-fcgi) |
| MySQL | 5.0.77-log |
Installed extensions
| Special pages | ||
|---|---|---|
| AdminBounceTests | Tool for support personnel to get bounce stats, given a list of wikiHow URLs | Reuben Smith |
| AdminCommunityDashboard | Tool for support personnel to change admin settings for the community dashboard | Reuben Smith |
| AdminConfigEditor | Tool for support personnel to edit and store config blobs | Reuben Smith |
| AdminEditInfo | Tool for support personnel to hand-edit meta descriptions and page titles of articles, given a list of wikiHow URLs | Reuben Smith |
| AdminEnlargeImages | Tool for support personnel to enlarge all the images in an article, given a list of wikiHow URLs | Reuben Smith |
| AdminLookupPages | Tool for support personnel to look up pages info given a list of wikiHow URLs | Reuben Smith |
| AdminMarkEmailConfirmed | Tool for support personnel to confirm a user's email address attached to the account | Reuben Smith |
| AdminNoIntroImage | Tool to remove intro images in articles given a list of wikiHow URLs | Scott Cushman |
| AdminRemoveAvatar | Tool for support personnel to remove a user's avatar file | Reuben Smith |
| AdminResetPassword | Tool for support personnel to reset a user's password without an email address attached to the account | Reuben Smith |
| AdminSearchResults | Tool for support personnel to lookup wikiHow articles for given queries using Yahoo Boss | Reuben Smith |
| Article Widgets | Extension for adding widgets into articles | Scott Cushman |
| Articlestats | Basic dashboard that gives some summarized information on a page | Travis Derouin |
| AuthorEmailNotification | Notifies by email on certain events | Vu Nguyen |
| Authorleaderboard | Shows author count. Based on patrol count | Vu Nguyen |
| Avatar | Avatar profile picture for user page | Vu <[email protected]> |
| Bounce Time Logger | AJAX end-point to log simple timing data | Ryo |
| Categoryhelper | Provides support for the category drop down menu | Travis Derouin |
| Categorylisting | Provides a list of the top most categories in wikiHow | Travis <[email protected]> |
| Charityleaderboard | Shows author count. Based on patrol count | Vu Nguyen |
| CheckJS | Customed search backend for Google Mini and wikiHow | Travis <[email protected]> |
| CheckUser | Grants users with the appropriate permission the ability to check user's IP addresses and other information | Tim Starling, Aaron Schulz |
| CreatePage | Provides a basic way entering a title and searching for potential duplicate articles before creating a page | Travis Derouin |
| Easy Image Upload | Provides an easy way of uploading and adding images to articles | Reuben Smith |
| EditFinder | Tool for experienced users to edit articles that need it. | Scott Cushman |
| EmailLink | Customed search backend for Google Mini and wikiHow | Travis <[email protected]> |
| Facebook Account Linker | Links existing wikihow users accounts with their Facebook account | Jordan Small |
| Facebook App Contact Creator | An extension that stores the FB id and email of a user that authorizes wikihow to send them email | Jordan Small |
| FacebookPage | Back end support for Facebook app | Travis Derouin |
| FBLogin | Facebook app login integration to wikihow | Jordan Small |
| FeaturedContributor | displays featured contributor widget | Vu Nguyen |
| FollowWidget | Follow Us Widget | Bebeth Steudel |
| FormatEmail | Allows custom headers/footers to be added to user to user emails. | Travis Derouin |
| Generatefeed | Generates the RSS feed for the featured articles | Travis <[email protected]> |
| GenerateJSFeed | An extension that displays the featured articles in javascript. | Travis <[email protected]> |
| GoogGadget | Google Gadget Page | Vu <[email protected]> |
| GoogSearch | Google Custom Search | Vu |
| IheartwikiHow | Tool to allow badges on other sites | Bebeth Steudel |
| ImageHelper | New functionality for the Image pages | Bebeth Steudel |
| ImportFreeImages | Provides a way of importing properly licensed photos from flickr. | Travis Derouin |
| Importvideo | Provides a way to search and 'import' videos from various sources (Youtube, 5min.com, Howcast, Videojug, WonderHowTo) into the wiki | Travis <[email protected]> |
| ImportXML | Takes a set of URLs, finds related pages, and adds inbound links to the submitted pages | Travis <[email protected]> |
| ImportXML | Importing exporting XML | Travis <[email protected]> |
| IntroImageAdder | Tool for new users to add intro images to articles that do not have them. | Vu Nguyen |
| Leaderboard | Shows leaderboard stats. | Vu Nguyen |
| LoginReminder | Tool to retrieve username/password | Bebeth Steudel |
| LSearch | Customed search backend for Google Mini and wikiHow | Travis <[email protected]> |
| Managepagelist | Manages a list of pages, such as the rising stars feed. | Travis <[email protected]> |
| ManageRelated | Provides a way of searching, previewing and adding links to an existing article | Travis Derouin |
| Mobile QG | Mobile wrapper for QG tool | Jordan Small |
| Mobile Wikihow | Mobile edition of web site for smart phones like iPhone, Adroid, etc | Reuben Smith |
| Monitorpages | Travis <[email protected]> | |
| MultipleUpload | Allows users to upload several files at once. | Travis <[email protected]> |
| MWMessages.php | Maintain Mediawiki messages | Travis Derouin |
| Mypages | Provides redirecting static urls to dynamic user pages | Travis Derouin |
| Netseer | Netseer landing page | Travis <[email protected]> |
| Newarticleboost | Provides a separate way of patrolling new articles | Travis Derouin |
| Newcontributors | A list of users who have made their first contribution to the site | Travis <[email protected]> |
| NewHowtoArticles | Tool to show new articles | Bebeth Steudel |
| NFDGuardian | Provides a way of reviewing NFD templates | Bebeth <bebeth.com> |
| NVGadget | Google Gadget Page | Vu <[email protected]> |
| Patrolcount | Bunches a bunch of edits of 1 user together | Travis Derouin |
| PopBox | Provides a basic way of adding new entries to the Spam Blacklist from diff pages | Travis Derouin |
| PostComment | Allows users to post comments directly to discussion pages. | Travis Derouin |
| ProfileBadges | Page which shows the current Author Badges available | Bebeth Steudel |
| ProfileBox | Magic word used in profile to display user data and stats | Vu <[email protected]> |
| QG | Provides a way of reviewing a set of edits separate from RC Patrol, such as removal of stub templates. | Travis <[email protected]> |
| QuickNoteEdit | quick popups for notes and edit | Vu <[email protected]> |
| Radlinks | Displays RAD links landing page | Travis Derouin |
| Randomizer | A different way of having a random page | Travis <[email protected]> |
| RateArticle | Provides a basic article ratings system | Travis <[email protected]> |
| RCBuddy | Helper special page for the wikihow editors toobar | Travis <[email protected]> |
| RCPatrol | An improved way of doing RC Patrol | Travis Derouin |
| RCWidget | Recent Changes Widget | Vu Nguyen |
| Renameuser | Rename a user (need renameuser right) | Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Aaron Schulz |
| Republish | Quick and easy way to copy an article to a blog or personal website | Travis Derouin |
| Sitemap | Generates a page of links to the top level categories and their subcatgories | Travis <[email protected]> |
| SpamDiffTool | Provides a basic way of adding new entries to the Spam Blacklist from diff pages | Travis Derouin |
| Spellchecker | Tool to help users find and correct spelling mistakes | Bebeth Steudel |
| Standings | The standings widget | Travis <[email protected]> |
| Starter Tool | Intro tool for new users. | Scott Cushman |
| StatsList | Just a bunch of stats for Krystle | Bebeth <[email protected]> |
| Sugg | Customed search backend for Google Mini and wikiHow | Travis <[email protected]> |
| Suggest | desc | You<[email protected]> |
| ThankAuthors | A way for users to leave fan mail on authors user_kudos page | Travis <[email protected]> |
| Titles by Category | Returns data on titles that fall under a category (as well as subcategories) in the wikiHow category tree | Jordan Small |
| TitleSearch | Used for the related wikihows tool drop down auto-suggest feature | Travis <[email protected]> |
| Titus Graph Tool | A tool to graph numeric data for articles within the Titus DB | Jordan Small |
| Titus Query Tool | A tool to query the Titus DB | Jordan Small |
| Toolbarhelper | Server side helper for the toolbar, could be replaced by RCBuddy at some point | Travis <[email protected]> |
| TopCategoryHooks | Maintain a table of links from top level categories to articles through a Hook | Travis <[email protected]> |
| Unguard | Reverse all votes by a user | Scott |
| Unpatrol | Unpatrol bad patrols | Travis <[email protected]> |
| UserTalkTool | UserTalkTool will allow admin to post to multiple user talk pages at once | Vu Nguyen |
| Videoadder | Travis <[email protected]> | |
| Welcome | Welcome to new wikiHow users | Vu Nguyen |
| WikiText Downloader | Download the wikitext of an article given an article id | Jordan Small |
| Parser hooks | ||
| Cite | Adds <ref[ name=id]> and <references/> tags, for citations | Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason |
| EmbedVideo (Version 0.1.2) | Adds a parser function aembedding video from popular sources. | Jim R. Wilson - wilson.jim.r<at>gmail.com |
| ImageMap | Allows client-side clickable image maps using <imagemap> tag. | Tim Starling |
| MagicArticlesStartedMagicWords | Adds ARTICLESSTARTED magic word for showing articles created by user. | Travis Derouin |
| MarkFeatured | Marks pages as featured depending on RSS-feed article contents in page table. Run MySQL "alter table page add column page_is_is_featured tinyint(1) unsigned NOT NULL default '0';" before installing.... | Travis Derouin |
| ParserFunctions (Version 1.1.1) | Enhance parser with logical functions | Tim Starling |
| SyntaxHighlight (Version 2008-02-06) | Provides syntax highlighting <source> using GeSHi Highlighter | Brion Vibber, Rob Church and Tim Starling |
| Other | ||
| AntiSpoof | Blocks the creation of accounts with mixed-script, confusing and similar usernames | Brion Vibber |
| AutotimestampTemplate | Provides a way of automatically adding a timestamp to a template. | Travis Derouin |
| BlockTitles | Provides a basic way of preventing pages with certain titles from being saved or created | Travis Derouin |
| Changerealname | Changes the real name of a user | Travis Derouin |
| ConfirmEdit | Simple captcha implementation | Brion Vibber |
| Drafts | Save and view draft versions of pages | Trevor Parscal |
| HAWelcome (Version 0.6) | Highly Automated Welcome Tool | Krzysztof Krzyżaniak and Maciej Błaszkowski (Marooned) |
| Newuserlog | Adds a log of account creations to Special:Log | Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason |
| OpenID (Version 0.10-dev) | Alexandre Emsenhuber, Evan Prodromou and Sergey Chernyshev | |
| SpamBlacklist | Tim Starling | |
| UniversalEditButton | Adds HTML header <link> to support Universal Edit Button browser extension. |
Brion Vibber and Danny B. |
| Extension functions | ||
| asSetup, confirmEditSetup, efSyntaxHighlight_GeSHiSetup, wfMarkFeaturedHooks, wfSetupImageMap, wfSetupParserFunctions and wfSpamBlacklist | ||
| Parser extension tags | ||
| <imagemap>, <pre>, <ref>, <references> and <source> | ||
| Parser function hooks | ||
| ARTICLESSTARTED, NABCOUNT, PATROLCOUNT, anchorencode, defaultsort, displaytitle, ev, expr, filepath, formatnum, fullurl, fullurle, grammar, if, ifeq, iferror, ifexist, ifexpr, int, language, lc, lcfirst, localurl, localurle, ns, numberofadmins, numberofarticles, numberofedits, numberoffiles, numberofpages, numberofusers, padleft, padright, plural, rel2abs, special, switch, tag, time, timel, titleparts, uc, ucfirst and urlencode | ||
Hooks
| Hook name | Subscribed by |
|---|---|
| APIEditBeforeSave | ConfirmEditHooks::confirmEditAPI |
| AbortAccountReminder | ConfirmEditHooks::confirmAccountReminder |
| AbortLogin | ConfirmEditHooks::confirmUserLogin |
| AbortNewAccount | ConfirmEditHooks::confirmUserCreate and asAbortNewAccountHook |
| AccountReminderNewCaptcha | ConfirmEditHooks::injectUserCreate |
| AddCacheControlHeaders | (, ) |
| AddNewAccount | asAddNewAccountHook, wfCheckStarterRef, wfNewuserlogHook, (, ), (, ), (, ) and (, ) |
| AjaxAddScript | DraftHooks::addJS |
| ArticleDelete | wfRemoveCheckspelling, wfRemoveNFD, (, ), (, ), (, ) and (, ) |
| ArticleDeleteComplete | (, ) |
| ArticleFromTitle | (, ) and (, ) |
| ArticleInsertComplete | (, ) and (, ) |
| ArticlePageDataBefore | (, ) |
| ArticleSave | wfCheckBlockTitles, wfValidateSpamblacklist, (, ) and (, ) |
| ArticleSaveComplete | DraftHooks::discard, HAWelcomeJob::revisionInsertComplete, wfCheckNFD, wfCheckQC, wfCheckspelling, wfNotifyTwitterOnSave, (, ), (, ), (, ), (, ), (, ), (, ), (, ), (, ), (, ), (, ), (, ), (, ) and (, ) |
| ArticleUndelete | wfUndeleteCheckpelling and wfUndeleteNFD |
| ArticleViewHeader | OpenIDHooks::onArticleViewHeader |
| AuthPluginAutoCreate | wfNewuserlogAutoCreate |
| AvatarUpdated | wfUpdateVanillaPicture |
| BeforePageDisplay | DraftHooks::addCSS, OpenIDHooks::onBeforePageDisplay, efUniversalEditLink, (, ) and (, ) |
| BlockIpComplete | wfBlockVanillaUser |
| CategoryHelperSuccess | (, CategorizerAppWidget) |
| ConfirmNewAccount | (, ) |
| EditFilter | DraftHooks::interceptSave |
| EditFilterMerged | (, ) |
| EditFinderArticleSaveComplete | (, ), (, ) and (, ) |
| EditPage::showEditForm:initial | DraftHooks::loadForm |
| EditPageBeforeEditButtons | DraftHooks::controls |
| EditPageToolbarPost | (, ) |
| EditURLOptions | (, ) |
| EmailUser | wfFormatEmail |
| FBLoginComplete | HAWelcomeJob::signUpComplete |
| GetPreferences | OpenIDHooks::onGetPreferences |
| ImageConvert | (, ) |
| InitPreferencesForm | OpenIDHooks::onInitPreferencesForm |
| IntroImageAdderUploadComplete | (, ) and (, AddImagesAppWidget) |
| LanguageGetMagic | MagicArticlesStartedLanguageGetMagic, wfEmbedVideoLanguageGetMagic and wfParserFunctionsLanguageGetMagic |
| LinksUpdate | (, ) |
| LoadExtensionSchemaUpdates | OpenIDHooks::onLoadExtensionSchemaUpdates, asUpdateSchema, efCheckSchema and efCheckUserSchemaUpdates |
| LogLine | wfNewuserlogLogLine |
| LoginAuthenticateAudit | ConfirmEditHooks::triggerUserLogin |
| MagicWordMagicWords | MagicArticlesStartedMagicWords |
| MagicWordwgVariableIDs | MagicArticlesStartedwgVariableIDs |
| MakeGlobalVariablesScript | (, ) |
| MarkPatrolled | (, RecentChangesAppWidget) |
| MarkPatrolledBatchComplete | (, ) |
| MarkPatrolledComplete | (, ) |
| MarkPatrolledDB | (, ), (, ) and (, ) |
| MarkTitleAsRisingStar | wfNotifyTwitterRisingStar and (, ) |
| NABArticleFinished | wfNotifyTwitterOnNAB, (, ), (, ), (, ) and (, NabAppWidget) |
| NFDVoted | (, NfdAppWidget) |
| OutputPageBeforeHTML | (, ) |
| ParserBeforeStrip | (, ) and (, ) |
| ParserClearState | (ExtParserFunctions, clearState) and (Cite, clearState) |
| ParserFirstCallInit | wfCite, wfEmbedVideoSetParserFunction, wfWikiHowParserFunction_Setup and (ExtParserFunctions, registerParser) |
| ParserGetArticleWidget | (, ) |
| ParserGetVariableValueSwitch | wfWikiHowMagicAssignAValue |
| ParserTestTables | efCheckUserParserTestTables |
| PersonalUrls | OpenIDHooks::onPersonalUrls |
| PostMemcacheInit | (, ) |
| PostOutput | (, ) |
| PreMemcacheGet | (, ) |
| QCVoted | (, ) and (, QcAppWidget) |
| RecentChange_save | efUpdateCheckUserData |
| RenderPreferencesForm | OpenIDHooks::onRenderPreferencesForm |
| ResetPreferences | OpenIDHooks::onResetPreferences |
| SavePreferences | OpenIDHooks::onSavePreferences |
| ShowRawCssJs | SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi::viewHook |
| SpamBlacklistFoundSpam | (, ) |
| SpecialPage_initList | OpenIDHooks::onSpecialPage_initList |
| Spellchecked | (, SpellcheckerAppWidget) |
| TitleMoveComplete | (, ) and (, ) |
| Unpatrol | (, ) |
| UploadComplete | (, ) |
| UserCreateForm | ConfirmEditHooks::injectUserCreate and asUserCreateFormHook |
| UserLoginComplete | HAWelcomeJob::signUpComplete, (, ) and (, ) |
| UserLoginForm | ConfirmEditHooks::injectUserLogin |
| UserLogout | (, ) and (, ) |
| UserToggles | onUserToggles |
| VAdone | (, AddVideosAppWidget) |
| WRMArticlePublished | (, ) |
| wgQueryPageLine | (, ) |
