Extension:IM Status

The IM Status extension provides buttons to show online status of the user in various IM clients (AIM, Google Talk, ICQ, MSN/Live Messenger, Skype, Xfire and Yahoo).

Usage
To embed an AIM button inside a MediaWiki article (or more likely a userpage):

To get some help about the AIM button:

The same syntax is used for all the other supported IM programs:
 * (ICQ)
 * (Google Talk)
 * (MSN/Live Messenger)
 * (Skype)
 * (Xfire)
 * (Yahoo Messenger)

Use Extension talk:IM Status to report issues or ask for help

Installation

 * 1) Edit IMStatus.php: change $wgAimKey_presence and $wgAimKey_api to your own keys (see the source about how to get the keys).
 * 2) Put IMStatus.php in your extensions folder (or in a subdirectory of it, as you want)
 * 3) Add the following code at the end of LocalSettings.php:
 * (replace, of course, with the proper path!)
 * 1) (optional) For additional locales, grab the latest revision of IMStatus.i18n.php at Extension:IM Status/IMStatus.i18n.php
 * 1) (optional) For additional locales, grab the latest revision of IMStatus.i18n.php at Extension:IM Status/IMStatus.i18n.php

Code
Grab the archive at http://www.patheticcockroach.com/mpam4/index.php?p=78
 * The latest stable version is 1.2
 * There is currently no newer beta version

Note from the original developer: this extension is currently not maintained (at least by me), because it's been placed in MediaWiki's SVN, which I don't know how to use (I can't think of a less user-friendly piece of software than Subversion... except maybe proFTPd) without clogging my system (TortoiseSVN isn't exactly unintrusive...).

Who's using it?
(Please add your URL to the bottom of the list.)
 * Wiki4Games.com, the video game wiki
 * Firefly: A Trickster Online Guild

Related extensions
NB: do not install extensions which use the same tags!

History

 * 2008-04-26 (1.0-rc1): first version
 * 2008-04-28 (1.1-rc1): added MSN/Live Messenger support
 * 2008-06-10 (1.2-b1): added defined('MEDIAWIKI') check, fixed various typos, made the extension localizable
 * 2008-09-21 (1.2): added German locale
 * 2008-10-05 (1.3): imported into MediaWiki SVN, message loading delayed