Dear enterprise MediaWiki users and enthusiasts,

I'm happy to announce the release of the Site Settings extension:

This extension lets you configure the wiki's settings, like its name, language and skin, via the web interface, at the page Special:SiteSettings. It's similar in concept to the Configure extension, except that, unlike Configure, it doesn't know about other extensions and their settings; instead, it uses hooks to let each extension add in its own fields. (No extension makes use of Site Settings yet, but I'm planning to start adding usage of it in some of my own extensions at some point soon.) Also, I think its user interface is a little nicer than Configure's.

Site Settings is derived from code that has been running on my wiki farm, Referata (referata.com) for a long time - for that reason, I started it out at version 0.5 instead of 0.1. And speaking of wiki farms, this is the first step toward the release of my long-delayed extension Wiki Garden, which is intended to power wiki farms, and which ties in heavily with Site Settings (since administrators of individual wikis within a farm will only be able to configure their own wiki via the web interface).

Nevertheless, I hope Site Settings will be useful for standalone installations of MediaWiki as well, as an easier way to change around the settings. I hope people try it out, and all feedback is appreciated.

-Yaron
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