Extensions

These extensions are in use by various wikis on Gamepedia. Default extensions load for all wikis. Allowed extensions can be set to load for those that need them. Forbidden extensions may never be used as they may cause undesirable behavior with the wiki farm setup.

For information on requesting extensions on a specific wiki, see requesting extensions.

Default extensions

These extensions are enabled by default. Template:Cols

Custom Gamepedia extensions

These are extensions that the Gamepedia development team wrote or supports.

Default

These extensions are enabled by default. Template:Cols

Optional

These extensions can be enabled upon request. Template:Cols

Optional allowed extensions

These extensions can be enabled upon request. Template:Cols

Custom extensions for specific wikis

Evony

• EvonyCalculator ( Example )

Feed The Beast

• OreDict
• Tilesheets

Guild Wars

• GuildWikiSkills

Guild Wars PvX

• PvX Code Parser
• PvX Rate
• PvX Vote

MTG

• MTGSCards
• Scryfalllinks

World of Warcraft

• DefaultLinks
• UsingData

Removed extensions

• Contribution Scores - Functionality included in WikiPoints.
• Maps - Not updated to use wfLoadExtension.
• News - Use rss instead.
• Random In Category - Massively out of date.
• SmoothGallery - Use MediaWiki's built-in gallery or SlideBoxLightShow.
• TwitterFBLike - Use Widgets instead. Twitter Follow Button and Facebook Like Button.
• UserSigProtection - Not used/needed.
• Validator - It is now installed as a composer package by Semantic MediaWiki.
• WinFilenameFix - Not needed anymore, fixed with built-in MediaWiki functionality.
• YouTube - Functionality included in EmbedVideo.

Forbidden extensions

• MultiUpload - Security problems with Mediawiki 1.19.x
• Renameuser - HydraAuth is the new authoritative on accounts.
• Semantic MediaWiki - Deprecated in favor of Cargo.
• User Merge and Delete - HydraAuth is the new authoritative on accounts.

Denied extension requests

• EditNotify - Configuration too complex for setup and maintenance.
• ExternalData - Too many security concerns to allow it.
• Graph - Requires a NodeJS service just to generate a graph. This is too much just to display graphs.
• PageInCat - Buggy code and unmaintained.
• NewUserMessage - Twitch login integration does not support MediaWiki account creation tracking.
• NumberFormat - Code quality not up to current MediaWiki standards.
• TimedMediaHandler - Functionality included in EmbedVideo.
• UrlGetParameters - Requires caching to be disabled.