Extensions round-up (January 2024)
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I'm looking through extensions we could use.
Extensions we should install :
- CategoryTagSorter automatically sorts categories at the bottom of articles, which is pretty neat to help users navigate throught he list of categories a page can have. Users can turn off the sort.
- MissedPages tracks when a user lands on a missing page (not created yet). Contrary to the "Requested pages" special page, this one will give us more insight as to which missing pages are the most visited so we know how to focus our efforts better on creating those missing pages.
- AutoSitemap creates the sitemap.xml file automatically for search engines. Right now I generate it automatically via a system cron on Shelter. Ideally, this extension might be better until we reach 10k pages (after which it won't be very well optimized) so we don't rely on a system crontab. I like it better when sites are independant from the system* itself
(* any resemblance o the Great Design is purely a coincidence.)
Extensions to investigate :
- GraphicalCategoryBrowser might be interesting in how it renders categories graphically. It needs Graphviz installed but that's doable on Shelter.
- NiceCategoryList could also be interesting. See the "Examples" section.
- SelectCategory allows editors to look through the category list and select the relevant ones when editing a page. This would help with not forgetting some categories when creating character pages.
- WikiSEO seems to help with SEO a lot but is manual : you have to add some relevant information for search engines (like keywords and such) on each individual page (or on the most relevant ones). So, unsure if we should really investigate as this would put a heavier burden on editors. AdvancedMeta seems to be simpler to use (doesn't require wikicode) .
Thoughts?