extensions/README

   1 Extensions (such as the hieroglyphic module WikiHiero) are distributed
   2 separately. Drop them into this extensions directory and enable as
   3 per the extension's directions.
   4
   5 If you are a developer, you want to fetch the extension tree in another
   6 directory and make a symbolic link:
   7
   8  mediawiki/extensions$ ln -s ../../extensions-trunk/FooBarExt
   9
  10 The extensions are available through Git:
  11     https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/admin/projects/
  12
  13 or Subversion:
  14     https://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/
  15
  16 You can find documentation and additional extensions on MediaWiki website:
  17     https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Extensions
  18
  19
  20 Please note that under POSIX systems (Linux...), parent of a symbolic path
  21 refers to the link source, NOT to the target! You should check the env
  22 variable MW_INSTALL_PATH in case the extension is not in the default location.
  23
  24 The following code snippet lets you override the default path:
  25
  26  $IP = getenv( 'MW_INSTALL_PATH' );
  27  if( $IP === false ) {
  28         $IP = __DIR__ . '/../..';
  29  }
  30  require_once( "$IP/maintenance/Maintenance.php" ); // a MediaWiki core file