Wikispooks:Software Development

Various ideas are under consideration for the development of Wikispooks, though the core software (Mediawiki & Semantic Mediawiki) is fixed.

Namespaces

Wikispooks may expand its use of these both for clarity of reading URLs and to facilitate the upgrade of future software.
Advantages:

Allows programmatic detection of the correct form for creation of new pages
Allows more precise modification and updates through namespace-specific filtering e.g. Special:ReplaceText
Assists in disambiguation between similarly named pages of different types

Disadvantages:

Doesn't follow the Wikipedia Standard
Longer, less flexible pagenames

Extensions

New Extensions of Interest

The following Mediawiki extensions are under consideration for use on Wikispooks. If you have any comments or relevant experience with them, please contribute it on the talk page.

Disambiguator - not needed as yet, but looks useful, or can we duplicate this functionality from SMW?
Scribunto - mostly useful for supporting imports from Wikipedia, e.g.
1. Citations (increasingly, they are no longer displaying properly)
2. Infoboxes (e.g. for people)
Extension:Semantic Forms Inputs - Wider choice of input methods
Extension:External Data - To start exploring the options of processing machine readable data from other sites

Unused Extensions

The Wikispooks code base has (or may have) some extensions installed which have been obsoleted by other software modifications. These may be removed in time to facilitate stability and speed of the codebase

Google Custom Search Engine - No longer maintained, probably obsolete
Extension:DynamicPageList (third-party) - Was used to create the Main page, but may be strictly inferior to SMW