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[Directory](/) 2. / 3. mediawiki/article-placeholder ActiveMediawiki-extension mediawiki/article-placeholder ============================= Provides a special page with Wikibase information about a certain topic, with invitation to create an article for the topic 41.4k1PHP Since May 4Pushed 1mo ago22 watchersCompare [ Source](https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-ArticlePlaceholder)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/mediawiki/article-placeholder)[ RSS](/packages/mediawiki-article-placeholder/feed)WikiDiscussions master Synced 1mo ago READMEChangelogDependenciesVersions (373)Used By (0) --- Introduction to ArticlePlaceholder ================================== [](#introduction-to-articleplaceholder) The ArticlePlaceholder is a MediaWiki extension. Read the detailed documentation at ArticlePlaceholder enables placeholder pages on Wikibase Client installations using data of the repository. The file includes/Template/Wikidata-P18.xml shouldn't be used in production but is for testing purposes. Installation ------------ [](#installation) ### Dependencies [](#dependencies) ArticlePlaceholder requires - MediaWiki - Wikibase Client, connected to a Wikibase Repo - Scribunto for the display of the content - Cite for the display of the references on a placeholder page - ContentTranslation (optional) for creating new articles based on existing ones in other languages ### Configuration [](#configuration) ``` wfLoadExtension( 'ArticlePlaceholder' ); ``` needs to be set in the LocalSettings.php of your MediaWiki Installation. There are multiple settings for the ArticlePlaceholder, which can be configured, a list can be found on [the MediaWiki page of the extension](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ArticlePlaceholder#Configuration). ### Set-up [](#set-up) In order to be able to actually use the functionalities of the special page and the Lua module, it is necessary to import (via Special:Import or the importDump.php maintenance script) the Template and Module AboutTopic. These are located in the extension folder in includes/Template. Optionally to enable the ordering of properties on the ArticlePlaceholder pages, your wiki needs a page with a list of sorted properties. This page needs to be called MediaWiki:Wikibase-SortedProperties. ### Health Score 45 — FairBetter than 92% of packages Maintenance62 Regular maintenance activity Popularity20 Limited adoption so far Community28 Small or concentrated contributor base Maturity63 Established project with proven stability Bus Factor1 Top contributor holds 54.8% of commits — single point of failure How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window. **Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores. **Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. 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