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Hey all, how's everyone doing? (I'm interested to see who will reply to this!) I have a lot of questions, but let me restrict myself to one subject at a time. I assume people who are reading this know what extensions are. You can see which one's we have here on [[Special:Version]]. There is a nearly complete list of all available ones at [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_Matrix http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_Matrix]. The two that I see as incontestably needed on this wiki are [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Character_Escapes Character Escapes] (for easy entry of non-standard or non-Latin characters), and [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ParserFunctions Parser Functions] (which '''everyone''' uses for templates to be able to have #if-then functionality). What is highly contestable is [http://semantic-mediawiki.org/ Semantic MediaWiki]. This allows a wiki to join '''''The Semantic Web''''' (Google it, and bask in its brilliance!) Basically, this allows pages to have attributes (like size=400 or FavoriteColour=blue) and allows the description of the links between pages (IsAChildOf or IsParentOf, for the breadcrumb trail). I can see why we might not want to open that can of worms, but I'll let whomever wants voice specific rationales pro and con before I say any more. Thanks for letting me in! ;-) --[[User:Aquatiki|Aquatiki]] 04:16, 17 July 2008 (PDT)