Extension:WhoIsWatching

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Who Is Watching

Release status: beta
Implementation Special page, Database
Description Find out who is watching a particular page, and add others to watchlist for that page
Author(s) Paul Grinberg, Siebrand Mazeland
Version v0.5 (May 12, 2008)
Download Read Installation Instructions Here
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Hooks used

LoadAllMessages
LanguageGetSpecialPageAliases

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[edit] Description

Even though this notion goes against Wikipedia and Wikimedia privacy policy, some wikis may actually like to see which of its users are watching particular pages. This extension provides just such an interface. Additionally, this extension allows any user to add any page to any other user's watch list.

[edit] Installation Instructions

[edit] Step 1

Download the extension code from SVN and place each file in extensions/WhoIsWatching folder.

[edit] Step 2

Add the following text to your LocalSettings.php

require_once( "$IP/extensions/WhoIsWatching/SpecialWhoIsWatching.php" );
$wgPageShowWatchingUsers = true;

[edit] Step 3

Edit your MediaWiki:Number_of_watching_users_pageview wiki page to have the following content:

[{{fullurl:Special:WhoIsWatching|ns={{NAMESPACE}}&page={{PAGENAMEE}}}} $1] watching {{PLURAL:$1|user|users}}

[edit] Additional Configuration

You can simply start using the extension without changing anything else. The only additional configuration that is currently possible for the extension defines how to display the names of the users watching the pages. In SpecialWhoIsWatching.php, there is

# Set the following to either 'UserName' or 'RealName' to display the list of watching users as such.
$whoiswatching_nametype = 'RealName';

As the comment implies, depending on the value of this variable, you can display either the real names of the watching users or their wiki usernames. The reason some wiki's may want to switch over to the 'UserName' mode is if they do not require their members to have a valid real name.

[edit] See also

Extensions that are similar in goal or style:

[edit] Revisions

  • v0.5 - May 12, 2008
    • Better handling of user names
  • v0.4 - December 27, 2007
    • new feature - add other users to the list of people watching the page
    • sort the list of people watching the page
    • minor bug fix on listing which page the information is pertaining to when the page is a category
  • v0.3 - November 25, 2007 - More standard way to load i18n messages (resolve bug about "Call to undefined function wfLoadExtensionMessages()")
  • v0.2 - November 23, 2007
  • v0.1 - October 12, 2007 - Initial publication.
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