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{{Blog Post
|title=Extension Roundup for June 2015
|tags=Extensions, MediaWiki,
|people=Mark Hershberger, Bartosz Dziewoński, Isarra, Akash Agarwal, Daren Welsh, James Montalvo, Alexia E. Smith,
|author=Chris Koerner
}}
One of the things we're trying to do as part of the MediaWiki Stakeholder's Group is to highlight new extensions and the developers behind them. This is the first in a hopefully ongoing series of highlighting new and interesting extensions from MediaWiki.org.


==HitCounters==
HitCounters was written in response to the removal of hit counter functionality in MediaWiki 1.25. Mark Hershberger, developer and stakeholder member, created this new extension to re-enable the page view counter. This is handy if you relied on the hit counter functionality to say display a list of popular pages on your wiki. 

You can read more about the extension on [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:HitCounters MediaWIki.org].


==Screenplay==

Like HitCounters, [http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Extension:Screenplay Screenplay] is a pretty straightforward extension. It allows you to format text as you would traditionally see in a screenplay. Formatting for scene headings, dialog, and slugs are included in the syntax. This could be a very handy extension for folks using a wiki as a collaborative editing platform for film, TV, or theatre.


==QualityAssurance==

This next extension comes from the Commonwealth Educational Media Center for Asia and was created by Akash Agarwal. It's called [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:QualityAssurance QualityAssurance]. 

I'll let Akash describe his extension. "The QualityAssurance extension allows one to enable a comprehensive review for the quality of an [Open educational resource] OER (it can be present on a wiki page itself or the wiki page can be used only for QA with a link to the OER) by adding a simple tag to the page."



==WatchAnalytics==

James Montalvo from NASA's EVA (and member of the Stakeholder's group) created an extension called [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WatchAnalytics WatchAnaytics]. This extension leverage the watchlist as a mechanism to understand what content within a wiki is being 'watched' and how to encourage others to watch and review neglected pages. 

James and Daren Welsh presented on WatchAnalytics at the recent hackathon in Lyon, France.


==SpriteSheet==

[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpriteSheet SpriteSheet] is a new extension from Alexia E. Smith from Curse Inc. For those of you with an interest in video games, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse%2C_Inc. Curse] will be well known. They're one of the larger MediaWiki networks with coverage of games from Call of Duty to Minecraft to League of Legends. 

This extension creates a parser function which allows you to use uploaded images for sprite sheets. A single image can contain a grid of reusable elements that can be used for iconography or other interface elements across your wiki.