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 |[https://culturaitaliana.org/wiki/Special:Version Mediawiki extensions]
 |Plugins extending the set of features of Mediawiki.
-|Some of the most prominent extensions include: [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Page_Forms Page forms], [https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki Semantic Mediawiki], [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VisualEditor Visual editor], [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MsUpload Ms Upload], [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MultimediaViewer MultimediaViewer], and more: we are also using a custom extension created by us!
+|Some of the most prominent extensions include: [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Page_Forms Page forms], [https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki Semantic Mediawiki], [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VisualEditor Visual editor], [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MsUpload Ms Upload], [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MultimediaViewer MultimediaViewer], and more: we are also using a custom extension created by us, including [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CIForms CIForms]!
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 |[https://quasar.dev/ Quasar framework]

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 |[https://www.npmjs.com/package/jsonwebtoken jsonwebtoken]
 |Node.js implementation of An implementation of [https://jwt.io/ JSON Web Tokens].
-|We use it to authenticate a student accessing his/her [https://culturaitaliana.org/classes Classes]
+|We use it to authenticate logged-in users
 |-
 |[https://github.com/mar10/fancytree fancytree]
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 |[https://redis.io/ Redis]
 |"in-memory data structure store"
-|We use it to record/retrieve the list of files stored in private wikis which can be accessed from students using the [https://culturaitaliana.org/classes classes] tool. The list is built each time that the page is loaded, hence the need of a solution focused on performances.
+|We use it to record private files on the back-end which can be accessed on the front-end given logged-in user credentials or permissions.  In certain circumstances the list could be composed each time that a page is accessed, hence the need of a solution allowing maximum performance.
 |-
 |[https://socket.io/ socket.io]

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 |[https://github.com/apostrophecms/split-html split-html]
 |split HTML in balanced HTML fragments
-|We use it to correctly split pages for the Books section, a
+|We use it to correctly split pages for the [https://culturaitaliana.org/browse/books/open-source-books Books section] of the site, or to insert [https://culturaitaliana.org/pages/How_it_works/Multiple_choice_questions multiple choice questions], within pages
 |}

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 |online rich-text editor
 |We use it to empower our integrated, web-based email client
 |}

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 !use
 |-
-|[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki Mediawiki 1.34]
+|[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki Mediawiki 1.35]
 |The collaboration and documentation platform which inspired and powers [https://www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia].
 |We use it for the back-end side of this site, in order to ensure collaborative creation of quality contents.

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 |"real-time, bidirectional and event-based communication"
 |We use it to broadcast advertisements and notifications through our internal system, based on user's contributions !
 |}

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 |[http://knexjs.org/ Knex]
 |Query builder for Node.js
-|We use it to assemble [https://www.mysql.com/ mysql] queries in our Node.js scripts
+|We use it to assemble [https://www.mysql.com/ mysql] queries in our Node.js environment
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 |[https://github.com/forwardemail/email-templates Email templates]

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 |"JavaScript plugin for entering and validating international telephone numbers"
 |We use it to assist the entry of international telephone numbers in some tables of private wikis
 |}

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 |client-side open-source JavaScript database inspired by [https://couchdb.apache.org/ CouchDB]
 |We use it to store all the organization or documentation's pages on the client, to minimize loading data from the server and to allow offline navigation
 |}