MediaWiki extensions manual

Sanctions Release status: stableCategory:Stable extensions
Implementation	User activity Category:User activity extensions, Special page Category:Special page extensions
Description	Offers a convenient and semi-automatic way to handle sanctions.
Author(s)	Femiwiki Team
Latest version	1.2.3
Compatibility policy	Snapshots releases along with MediaWiki. Master is not backward compatible.Category:Extensions with release branches compatibility policy
MediaWiki	1.34+Category:Extensions with manual MediaWiki version
Database changes	Yes
Tables	sanctions sanctions_vote
License	GNU Affero General Public License 3.0 or later
Download	Download extension Git [?]: Browse repository (GitHub) Gerrit code review Git commit log Download source tarball Category:Extensions in Wikimedia version control CHANGELOG
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The Sanctions extension adds special page Special:Sanctions and let users handle sanctions against spammers, for instance. This extension assumes it could be used in a wiki without administrators and/or sysop.

Installation

• Download and move the extracted Sanctions folder to your extensions/ directory.
  Developers and code contributors should install the extension from Git instead, using:cd extensions/
git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/Sanctions
• Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:

  wfLoadExtension( 'Sanctions' );
  

• Run the update script which will automatically create the necessary database tables that this extension needs.
• Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

Configuration

These messages below are configurations of the extension. The extension uses system messages instead of configuration variables defined on the server's LocalSettings.php to prepare in case the server operator is missing in action.

• Mediawiki:Sanctions-discussion-page-name - The page name for proposing sanctions. By default, Project Talk:Sanctions.
• Mediawiki:Sanctions-voting-period - Voting period for sanction proposals. Default 3 (days).
• Mediawiki:Sanctions-max-block-period‎ - Maximum days for block expiration. Default 30 (days).
• Mediawiki:Sanctions-voting-right-verification-period - Minimum requirement for voters to participate in sanction process - "X days past registration, Y edits within last X days, no sanction logs for last X days" - this value represents X. Default 20.
• Mediawiki:Sanctions-voting-right-verification-edits - Minimum requirement for voters to participate in sanction process - "X days past registration, Y edits within last X days, no sanction logs for last X days" - this value represents Y. Default 3.
• Mediawiki:sanctions-autoblock - Whether or not to enable autoblock when blocking. 1 for autoblock on and 0 for autoblock off. Default 1.

This extension was originally made for Femiwiki.