Extension:Avatars
 | This extension is mainly supported in an external venue: BlueSpice Community Forum. If you need help, you should post there, and not on the talk page. |
 Release status: stable |
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| Description | Provides generic and individual user pictures |
| Author(s) | Hallo Welt! GmbH |
| Maintainer(s) | Hallo Welt! GmbH |
| Latest version | - |
| Compatibility policy | For every MediaWiki release that is a Long Term Support release there is a corresponding branch in the extension. |
| MediaWiki | 1.43 (LTS) |
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| Licence | GNU General Public License 3.0 only |
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Avatars handles profile images of wiki users. If a user does not upload a profile image, an automatically generated avatar is used instead.
Usage / features
[edit]This extension adds an option to each user's page to change the profile image. At the top of their user page, users can see their current profile image with a menu option to change the image. Users have several options for setting a profile image:
- Upload a new image
- Use an image that is already on the wiki or an image from the web (through URL)
- Generate a new avatar
In the configuration, an administrator can choose from two types of avatars:
- InstantAvatar - Random - The image contains initials of the user's name.
- Identicon - Not random - The image is based on the user's IP address.
Requirements
[edit]Avatars requires BlueSpice Foundation.
See also
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Installation
[edit]- Add the repo url (https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-BlueSpiceAvatars
.git) as a "vcs repository" and the package name (mediawiki/BlueSpiceAvatars) and version to the require section of your composer.local.json. Example:
{ "repositories": [ { "type": "vcs", "url": "https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-BlueSpiceAvatars .git" } ], "require": { "mediawiki/BlueSpiceAvatars": "BlueSpiceAvatars" } }
- Run the following command in your MediaWiki installation path
composer update --no-dev
- Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:
wfLoadExtension( 'BlueSpiceAvatars' );
Done Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.
External Links
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This extension was originally made for BlueSpice. BlueSpice is a MediaWiki distribution for enterprises and organizations. It enhances MediaWiki, in particular in the areas of quality management, process support, administration, editing and security. This extension is bundled with BlueSpice free.
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