Development statistics/Extensions
This page collects some statistics about MediaWiki extensions: number of extensions and their quality.
Statistics
[edit]Number of extensions: (as of 11 August 2016)
- 719 distributed by ExtensionDistributor
- 2000 (about) extensions categorised on MediaWiki.org (category All extensions; it seems there are not too much other pages, the raw number if 2286)
- 7000 (about) extensions categorised on WikiApiary.com (category Extension; it seems there are not too much other pages, the raw number is 7661)
- 3380 extensions on MediaWiki.org (pages in Extensions: namespace, which are not a subpage but possibly a redirect; 7635 pages grand total, subpages and redirects included)
Extension quality: (as of 11 August 2016)
- 153 extensions used in production on Wikimedia websites
- 869 extensions considered stable by the community and/or their authors
- 792 extensions announced in beta version by the community and/or their authors
- 258 extensions considered as experimental by the community and/or their authors
- 219 extensions which were stable but are now unmaintained
- 532 extensions archived, i.e. no more maintained since a long time
- 88 extensions with known vulnerabilities, out of which 57 have been deleted from the MediaWiki.org website
Old statistics
[edit]2015-02-13
[edit]Number of extensions: (as of 13 February 2015)
- 719 distributed by ExtensionDistributor
- 2000 (about) extensions categorised on MediaWiki.org (category All extensions; it seems there are not too much other pages, the raw number if 2263)
- 6000 (about) extensions categorised on WikiApiary.com (category Extension; it seems there are not too much other pages, the raw number is 6573)
- 3132 extensions on MediaWiki.org (pages in Extensions: namespace, which are not a subpage but possibly a redirect; 6222 pages grand total, subpages and redirects included)
Extension quality: (as of 13 February 2015)
- 146 extensions used in production on Wikimedia websites
- 827 extensions considered stable by the community and/or their authors
- 868 extensions announced in beta version by the community and/or their authors
- 247 extensions considered as experimental by the community and/or their authors
- 109 extensions which were stable but are now unmaintained
- 327 extensions archived, i.e. no more maintained since a long time
- 81 extensions with known vulnerabilities, out of which 56 have been deleted from the MediaWiki.org website
Statistics sources and methodology
[edit]- ExtensionDistributor: ask the API on mediawiki.org
download https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-extensions.txt and count the number of lines(removed by phabricator:T266024) - MediaWiki.org category "All extensions": number of pages in Category:All extensions
- WikiApiary.com category "Extensions": number of pages in wikiapiary:Category:Extension
- pages Extension: on MediaWiki.org: copy all titles from Special:AllPages/Extension: in a text file and count the number of lines. Possibly a program could be written by using the API https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=allpages&format=json&apnamespace=102&aplimit=500, walking through the API pages, saving the titles, and removing the titles with a slash (subpages). Or possibly there is some way to directly get this number through API or web interface.
- extensions used in production on Wikimedia websites: Git repository "operations/mediawiki-config", file "wmf-config/extension-list", count the number of lines; see also Category:Extensions used on Wikimedia which should be synchronised
- extensions considered stable by the community and/or their authors: number of pages in Category:Stable extensions (I consider an extension without a page in the namespace Extension: can not be considered stable; de facto other pages in the category are mainly copies of existing extensions as well as some extensions currently in development)
- extensions announced in beta version by the community and/or their authors: number of pages in Category:Beta status extensions
- extensions considered as experimental by the community and/or their authors: number of pages in Category:Experimental extensions
- extensions which were stable but are now unmaintained : number of pages in Category:Not LTS ready
- extensions archived, i.e. no more maintained since a long time: number of pages in Category:Archived extensions + Category:Archived Semantic MediaWiki extensions
- extensions with known vulnerabilities:
- total with known vulnerabilities: sum of all pages in category and subcategories of Category:Extensions with security vulnerabilities
- total which have been deleted from the MediaWiki.org website: number of pages in Category:Deleted extensions with security vulnerabilities