Extension:LiveFeed
From MediaWiki.org
 Release status: beta |
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| Implementation | Tag, Skin |
| Description | Provides several useful tools including the Live Traffic Feed widget that allows you to see what is happening on your wiki/blog right now. |
| Author(s) | Mohan S. Cheema (Mohancheema) |
| Last Version | 0.0.1 |
| MediaWiki | 1.6.x Should Work with others |
| License | GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE |
| Download | LiveFeed |
| Example | Implemented |
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check usage (experimental) |
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The LiveFeed Extension is a MediaWiki extension which provides Feedjit Live Feed which provide several useful tools including the Live Traffic Feed widget that allows you to see what is happening on your wiki/blog right now. It's a live view of your wiki/blog that tells you what city your visitors are in, what sites they came from and what search terms they used to find your wiki/blog.
In addition they include your wiki/blog in their Geoblogosphere that shows which blogs are popular in any city, state or country. You get the best of both worlds: A useful widget for your wiki/blog and they send you a bunch of new visitors who are interested in reading news from your city.
- Licensing
- LiveFeed is released under GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE.
[edit] Installation
- Download LiveFeed.
- Drop this script in $IP/extensions
- Note: $IP is your MediaWiki install dir.
- Enable the extension by adding this line to your LocalSettings.php:
require_once('extensions/LiveFeed/LiveFeed.php');
Configuration (optional)
If you'd like the "Live Feed" sidebar to be displayed, simply add the following to your LocalSettings.php:
$wgShowLiveFeedSidebar = true;
Note: This works by hooking into 'MonoBookTemplateToolboxEnd'. If you're using a skin which doesn't call this hook, then the above will not work.
[edit] Usage
Once installed, you can add Live Feed to any page.
To do so, simply add the following to the the article where the links are to appear:
<livefeed />
