Extension:AuthorInfo

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Author Info Release status: beta
Implementation	Tag
Description	Displays a list of authors that contributed to an article, sorted by number of edits.
Author(s)	ThomasKelderTalk
MediaWiki	Tested on 1.12-1.13 (but could work on older versions)
License	Apache License v2
Download	http://svn.bigcat.unimaas.nl/wikipathways/trunk/wpi/extensions/AuthorInfo/
Example	http://www.wikipathways.org/index.php/Pathway:Homo_sapiens:Sandbox
Check usage (experimental)

What can this extension do?

This extension displays a list of users that contributed to an article. The list is sorted by number of edits and you can optionally set maximum number of users to display.

This extension was built for the WikiPathways project. You can find an example here.

Usage

Add this text to the page where you want to show the list of authors for:

<AuthorInfo limit="4"></AuthorInfo>

Download instructions

Download the following files:

• http://svn.bigcat.unimaas.nl/wikipathways/trunk/wpi/extensions/AuthorInfo/AuthorInfo.css
• http://svn.bigcat.unimaas.nl/wikipathways/trunk/wpi/extensions/AuthorInfo/AuthorInfo.js
• http://svn.bigcat.unimaas.nl/wikipathways/trunk/wpi/extensions/AuthorInfo/AuthorInfo.php

And place them in $IP/extensions/ExtensionName/ExtensionName.php. Note: $IP stands for the root directory of your MediaWiki installation, the same directory that holds LocalSettings.php.

Installation

To install this extension, add the following to LocalSettings.php:

#add configuration parameters here
#setup user rights here
require_once("$IP/extensions/AuthorInfo/AuthorInfo.php");

Notes

There appears to be a typo in AuthorInfo.php which causes the incorrect path to be created for the javascript and therefore fails:

Line 6:

$wfAuthorInfoPath = WPI_URL . "/extensions/AuthorInfo";

Should be:

$wfAuthorInfoPath = $WPI_URL . "/extensions/AuthorInfo";