Isolation check

When an MediaWiki extension is installed, it will add things to a MediaWiki environment. There is a directory for the extension. There must be an entry to the LocalSettings.php to make MediaWiki aware of its existence. There are several more places where an extension may make changes. These changes are determined by the Wikiation check isolation process.

The purpose of the isolation check is to detect anything that might influence the proper working of other extensions. The user of the extension has, with this isolation check, enough information to decide if it is save to use a specific entension or not.

The Wikiation isolation check determines:

• If changes are made to MediaWiki tables
• If changes are made to MediaWiki core software
• If java is used
• If changes are made to the CSS