Extension:Poll

Category:Unmaintained extensions#Poll Category:Extensions without an imageCategory:Creative Commons licensed extensions
MediaWiki extensions manual
Poll Extension
Release status: unmaintainedCategory:Unmaintained extensions
Implementation Tag Category:Tag extensions, Special page Category:Special page extensions
Description Allows anonymous polling
Author(s) Jan Luca, Sorin Sbarnea
Latest version 1.1.0 (2016-02-23)
Compatibility policy Snapshots releases along with MediaWiki. Master is not backward compatible.Category:Extensions with release branches compatibility policy
Database changes Yes
License Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0
Download
Download extension
Git [?]:
Category:Extensions in Wikimedia version control
Example i18n.ro
Tags
  • ‎<poll>
Added rights
  • poll-admin
  • poll-create
  • poll-vote
  • poll-score
Hooks used
Quarterly downloads 1 (Ranked 97th)
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Category:All extensions

The Poll extension allows anonymous polling. It will provide the number of votes for each answer in same window. Voting results can be seen before voting.

Usage

<poll>
Do you like this extension?
Yes
No
I don't know yet.
</poll>

Installation

  • Download and move the extracted Poll 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/Poll
  • Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file: 
    wfLoadExtension( 'Poll' );
  • Run the update script which will automatically create the necessary database tables that this extension needs.
  • Yes Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

Known limitations

  • This extension does not support PostgreSQL!
  • This extension does not support database table prefixes, such as wiki_ etc.
  • Images must be placed into the folder /extensions/Poll/images/

See Also

Category:Poll extensions
Category:All extensions Category:Creative Commons licensed extensions Category:Extensions in Wikimedia version control Category:Extensions with release branches compatibility policy Category:Extensions without an image Category:LoadExtensionSchemaUpdates extensions Category:Poll extensions Category:Special page extensions Category:Tag extensions Category:Unmaintained extensions