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: stableCategory:Stable extensions |
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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.Category:Extensions with long-term support release branches compatibility policy |
| MediaWiki | 1.43 (LTS)Category:Extensions with manual MediaWiki version |
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| Licence | GNU General Public License 3.0 only |
| Download | Category:Extensions in Wikimedia version control |
| Translate the Avatars extension if it is available at translatewiki.net | |
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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
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
Avatars requires BlueSpice Foundation.
Installation
- Download and move the extracted
BlueSpiceAvatarsfolder to yourextensions/directory.
Developers and code contributors should install the extension from Git instead, using:cd extensions/ git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/BlueSpiceAvatars
- Only when installing from Git, run Composer to install PHP dependencies, by issuing
composer install --no-devin the extension directory. (See T173141 for potential complications.)Category:Extensions requiring Composer with git - Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:
require_once "$IP/extensions/BlueSpiceAvatars/BlueSpiceAvatars.php";
Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.Category:Extensions not using extension registration
See also
External links
- Technical reference (check this page for possible extension dependencies)
- Extension user help
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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