Review documentation about Developing extensions
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	May 6 2022, 7:28 AM

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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker/Extension_Writing_Tutorial looks horrible.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Best_practices_for_extensions likely needs higher exposure as it's a development guideline.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Developing_extensions links to the BoilerPlate extension at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:BoilerPlate (see also T97105: BoilerPlate extension should show latest coding practices). It also links to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Examples . When to look at which one? In which order should I use the code of these two extensions?
There is also @Mooeypoo's https://mwstew.toolforge.org/ which is currently not mentioned but probably should be, but it's unclear how this plays together with the aforementioned two (what does it cover? what may it duplicate?)
I'm also tempted to remove the cookiecutter-mediawiki-extension item under "See Also" as it has not been updated for six years (and things like OOUI etc happened in the meantime).

Mentioned Here: T97105: BoilerPlate extension should show latest coding practices

Aklapper triaged this task as Low priority.May 6 2022, 7:28 AM

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Maybe Platform Engineering could be kind enough to provide some input here?

Aklapper renamed this task from Review Manual:Developing_extensions to Review documentation about Developing extensions.Jul 1 2022, 3:50 PM

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