Extension:ShoogleTweet

The ShoogleTweet extension is a MediaWiki extension which provides the last N tweets of a given screen name on your desired wikipedia page. It also caches the results in an apc-cache if it exist.


 * Source Code: ShoogleTweet GitHub
 * Licensing: ShoogleTweet is released under The MIT License.

Step 1 - Retrieving oAuth Access

 * 1) Navigate to the Twitter "My Applications" page and create a new application
 * 2) After creating the application the 'Consumer Key' and 'Consumer Secret' will be provided. You'll need that later

Step 2 - Installing the Extension

 * 1) Navigate to the $IP/extensions directory of your mediawiki installation
 * 2) git clone https://github.com/schinken/mediawiki-shoogletweet
 * 3) cd mediawiki-shoogletweet/
 * 4) git submodule init
 * 5) git submodule update


 * 1) Enable the extension by adding this line to your LocalSettings.php:

Usage
Once installed, you may display tweets to any given screen_name!

Just add

b4ckspace to your desired wiki page

The output can be styled with this piece of CSS:

Developer Notes
If there are any problems, feel free to contact me through my my hackerspace profile page.

Wikis Using this Extension

 * Hackerspace Bamberg