There are several features that any decent social software / content management software is expected to provide today, but MediaWiki only provides them via extensions, putting the burden on users to recognize the needs, identify the right extensions and figure out the installation process. (For example: a mobile interface, notifications, two-factor authentication, WYSIWYG editing, structured discussions, Wikidata integration, support for common media formats...) There should be some kind of "recommended for a decent user experience" extension bundle, and we should gently direct users towards that instead of vanilla MediaWiki or the [[https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MREL/browse/master/make-release/make-release.yaml;b8a6275996bb7f9a651b4769d7a861d7608e4da3$3|current bundle]].
Current proposal:
| | Requested at [[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Suggestions_for_extensions_to_be_integrated | Suggestions for extensions to be integrated ]] | [[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:ExtensionDistributor | Extension Distributor Top 15 Rank]] | [[https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Extension:Extensions#Popular_extensions|WikiApiary Site Count]] | Requires Configuration | Ready |
| [[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CategoryTree|CategoryTree]] | listed as bundled, but it does not appear to be | | 5,493 | no | X |
| [[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AntiSpoof|AntiSpoof]] | yes | | 3,453 | no | |
| [[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto|Scribunto]] | yes | 4 | 3,331 | no | |
| [[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Echo|Echo]] | yes | 15 | 2,892 | no | |
| [[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MobileFrontend| MobileFrontend]] | yes | 3 | 2,656 | no | |
| [[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Thanks|Thanks]] | yes | | 2,430 | no | |
| [[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AbuseFilter|AbuseFilter]] | yes | | 1,992 | no | |
| [[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Replace Text|Replace Text]] | no | | 1,498 | no | |
| [[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CodeEditor|CodeEditor]] | yes | | 1,468 | no | X |
| [[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:Minerva_Neue|Minerva Neue skin ]] | | | 1,389 | no | |
| [[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MultimediaViewer|MultimediaViewer]] | | 12 | 1,238 | no | X |
| [[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension: OATHAuth|OATHAuth]] | | | 987 | no | X |
| [[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LoginNotify|LoginNotify]] | | | 887 | no | |