Extension:TransformChanges

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TransformChanges Release status: stable
Implementation	User activity, Special page
Description	Makes recent-changes and watchlists render in nice columns for easier reading, see this example.
Author(s)	User:Nad
Last version	1.1.7 (2009-09-05)
MediaWiki	1.9.0+
License	GPL
Download	TransformChanges.php
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I've found the format of the recent changes and watchlists to be difficult to read and generally unpleasent looking, so I've made a quick extension to reformat them from a bullet list into a table. It also adds CSS classes to the table, rows and columns for easy customisation of styles.

 Note: The Enhanced recent changes user option is deactivated by this extension.

Installation

Save the code from OrganicDesign:Extension:TransformChanges.php into a file and include in your LocalSettings.php file as usual.

CSS Styles

To make it render properly some CSS styles should be added to your stylesheet (usually your MediaWiki:Common.css article), for example here's the styles that we've added on the Organic Design recent changes. See Manual:Interface/Stylesheets for more details about adding CSS rules to your wiki.

tr.mw-line-even          { background:white; }
tr.mw-line-odd           { background:#eee; }
 
table.changes            { border:none; width:100%; }
table.changes tr         { margin:0; padding:0; }
table.changes td         { margin:0; padding: 1px 4px 0 4px; vertical-align: top; }
table.changes td.heading { font-size: 110%; font-weight:bold; padding-top:10px; }
table.changes td.comment { width:100%; }
 
table.changes td.talk,
table.changes td.diff    { font-size: 90%; }
 
table.changes td.user,
table.changes td.talk,
table.changes td.diff,
table.changes td.info    { white-space: nowrap; }

Change log

Version 1.1.7 (2009-09-05)

• Was failing to render log items properly in 1.15, fixed now

Version 1.1.5 (2009-03-24)

• Was failing to render log items properly in 1.14, fixed now

Version 1.1.2 (2009-01-29)

• Works for all recent versions now

Version 1.1.0 (2009-01-13)

• Started support for MediaWiki 1.12+ (not quite working yet)

Version 1.0.7 (2007-09-08)

• Disable enhanced recent changes

Version 1.0.4 (2007-05-20)

• If Extension:Simple Security is installed, changes to non-readable articles will be filtered from the list.

Version 1.0.3 (2007-05-17)

• Made it work properly in any language

See also

• The demo page of similarity function using DPL