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Our wikis have undergone multiple enhancements that are neither part of the vanilla MediaWiki software nor its extensions. With these enhancements we make our wikis '''more accessible, more readable, more user friendly and more feature rich'''. On this page we would like to give you an overview.
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= Our own original upgrades =

{{#widget:Icon_Bullet_List|fontSize=17px
|item=fa-solid fa-1 cs-green,Individual Header and Footer with modern menu functionality
|item=fa-solid fa-2 cs-green,CodeSelect Boxes with Syntax Highlighting
|item=fa-solid fa-3 cs-green,Our compact TOC variant with expandable levels and saved user preferences
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<gallery widths="200px" class="thumb-gallery-style justify-left">
File:Wiki-enhanced-demo-header-footer.jpg|Header and Footer
File:Wiki-enhanced-demo-codeSelect.jpg|CodeSelect
File:Wiki-enhanced-demo-toc.jpg|Table of Contents
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|item=fa-solid fa-4 cs-green,We don't use tracking scripts
|item=fa-solid fa-5 cs-green,We don't use tracking cookies
|item=fa-solid fa-6 cs-green,We offer an Onion version of every wiki website
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File:Wiki-enhanced-demo-notrackscript.jpg|No tracking scripts
File:Wiki-enhanced-demo-notrackcookie.jpg|No tracking [[Cookie_Policy#What_types_of_cookies_does_we_use_and_for_what_purposes.3F|Cookies]]
File:Onion-website-promo.jpg|Onion Website
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{{#widget:Icon_Bullet_List|fontSize=17px
|item=fa-solid fa-7 cs-green,A Share Tooltip for all headlines where the direct link can be shared easily on many platforms or for private or wiki use
|item=fa-solid fa-8 cs-green,Modals which are practical and wiki compatible
|item=fa-solid fa-9 cs-green,Our modern Search Modal
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File:Wiki-enhanced-demo-sharetooltip.jpg|Share Tooltip
File:Wiki-enhanced-demo-modal.jpg|Custom Modal
File:Wiki-enhanced-demo-search-modal.jpg|Search Modal
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{{#widget:Icon_Bullet_List|fontSize=17px
|item=fa-solid fa-check cs-green,Sliders (carousels)
|item=fa-solid fa-check cs-green,Beautiful graphical Icon Bullet Lists
|item=fa-solid fa-check cs-green,Feature-rich, nojs compatible Tab Content Controller for switching between content
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<gallery widths="200px" class="thumb-gallery-style justify-left">
File:Wiki-enhanced-demo-slider.jpg|Slider (Carousel)
File:Wiki-enhanced-demo-iconlist.jpg|Icon Bullet Lists
File:Wiki-enhanced-tabcontroller.jpg|Tab Content Controller
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{{#widget:Icon_Bullet_List|fontSize=17px
|item=fa-solid fa-check cs-green,A practical thumbnail gallery
|item=fa-solid fa-check cs-green,Beautiful quotations
|item=fa-solid fa-check cs-green,A template specifically for Videos
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<gallery widths="200px" class="thumb-gallery-style justify-left">
File:Wiki-enhanced-demo-thumb-gallery.jpg|Thumbnail gallery
File:Wiki-enhanced-demo-quotation.jpg|Quotation
File:Wiki-enhanced-demo-videolink.jpg|Video Link
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{{#widget:Icon_Bullet_List|fontSize=17px
|item=fa-solid fa-check cs-blue,Greatly improving the standard Wikitext Editor
|item=fa-solid fa-check cs-blue,High level autosave feature for Wikitext Editor
|item=fa-solid fa-check cs-blue,A sophisticated Debugging Modal accessible for all users
|item=fa-solid fa-check cs-blue,Making everything fully responsive
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<gallery widths="180px" class="thumb-gallery-style justify-left">
File:Wiki-enhanced-demo-editor.jpg|Enhanced Editor
File:Wiki-enhanced-demo-editor-autosave.jpg|Editor Autosave Feature
File:Wiki-enhanced-demo-debugmodal.jpg|Debugging Modal
File:Wiki-enhanced-demo-responsive.jpg|Responsive Demo
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{{#widget:Icon_Bullet_List|fontSize=17px
|item=fa-solid fa-check cs-blue,A beautiful navigation template
|item=fa-solid fa-check cs-blue,Custom Scrollbars with horizontal scroll elements for optimal visibility and accessibility
|item=fa-solid fa-check cs-blue,A Scroll-to-top button
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File:Wiki-enhanced-demo-mininav.jpg|Navigation Template
File:Wiki-enhanced-demo-scrollbars.jpg|Custom scrollbars
File:Wiki-enhanced-demo-top-button.jpg|Scroll Top Button
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{{#widget:Icon_Bullet_List|fontSize=17px
|item=fa-solid fa-check cs-blue,Stylized info boxes
|item=fa-solid fa-check cs-blue,Greatly enhanced Archive links
|item=fa-solid fa-check cs-blue,Quality of life improvements like our ScrollAutoWrapper which protects tables and images from overwidth
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File:Wiki-enhanced-demo-infobox.jpg|Info box
File:Wiki-enhanced-archive-link.jpg|Archive Link
File:Wiki-enhanced-demo-scrollwrapper.jpg|Scroll Auto Wrapper
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= Installed Mediawiki Extensions =

Apart from our own original upgrades, we have hand-picked and installed numerous extensions to introduce more features to all users and to increase accessibility. The pre-installed extensions of the MediaWiki standard installation are omitted here for brevity.

# [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CodeMirror '''CodeMirror'''] improves the editor experience with optional syntax highlighting
# [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Comments '''Comments'''] allows user comments on pages where the special comments-tag is present
# [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ContactPage '''ContactPage'''] offers a comprehensive and easy way for visitors to contact our team
# [https://github.com/Kicksecure/mediawiki-extensions-CookieToBodyClass '''CookieToBodyClass'''] is a MediaWiki extension '''created by our team'''. This allows developers to mirror cookies as a class for the body element, which is used to prevent "style jumps" when the page is loading. Here is the [[Dev/mediawiki#Extension_CookieToBodyClass|documentation for CookieToBodyClass]]
# [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CookieWarning '''CookieWarning'''] implements the EU-mandatory warning for users that cookies are used
# [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CSS '''CSS'''] allows custom CSS to be added to specific pages by developers to improve the user experience
# [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DarkMode '''DarkMode'''] offers the option for users to view the page in dark mode / night mode
# [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DisableAccount '''DisableAccount'''] gives admins the power to ban malicious accounts and thereby secure the integrity of the wiki
# [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FlaggedRevs '''Flagged Revisions'''] offers visitors, even anonymous ones, the ability to edit our pages and contribute, and gives these contributions to editors and admins for a safe revision before publication
# [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:HeadScript '''HeadScript'''] allows us to implement custom CSS, JS, favicons, other libraries, fontAwesome, etc. for more functionality on the wiki
# [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LinkSuggest '''LinkSuggest'''] suggests links to editors, making the editing process a little bit faster and more efficient
# [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LinkToArchive '''LinkToArchive'''] adds to external links on the wiki an automatic link of the Web Archive version of this URL
# [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Lockdown '''Lockdown'''] improves wiki security by offering a more finely grained restriction model
# [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MsUpload '''MsUpload'''] introduces a handy drag-and-drop upload area for files to improve the editor experience
# [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:NewSignupPage '''New Signup Page'''] enhances MediaWiki's default signup page
# [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Popups '''Previews'''] displays preview popups when the user hovers over a link
# [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RevisionSlider '''Revision Slider'''] adds a more comfortable, more practical slider interface to the diff view for editors
# [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RottenLinks '''Rotten Links'''] helps keep the wiki clean by preventing dead links on the wiki by showing the admin a table of all external links on the wiki with their status
# [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UserMerge '''User Merge'''] allows the admin to merge different user accounts, for example, if a user created duplicate accounts by accident, account reconciliation, and other scenarios alike that might occur for contributors and other users
# [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Widgets '''Widgets'''] offers developers the opportunity to add true HTML fragments to our pages. This is used to create well-designed special pages for our users that would not be achievable with the standard wiki syntax
# [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiSEO '''WikiSEO'''] allows us to create and maintain high-level SEO optimizations for our wiki so they can be found more easily by new users

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