User:Revansx

Hi. I am Rich

As an amateur web-nerd and open-source devotee, I run an private enterprise semantic mediawiki site for my organization and am obsessed with migrating all things into a private corporate semantic web.. :-)

Cheers! -Rich

Hi Rich, you wanted to ask about our Access Log extension. What's your specific question? Robertpba (talk) 03:29, 22 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi Robert! ... Thanks for responding.. Your "Access_Log" extension [0] is really great. I run a private enterprise wiki for my organization and in these early days of adoption and winning skeptics it is really valuable to be able to show the frequency and range of use of the users reading the content in the wiki to management without needing to parse through server logs.. the reason I contacted you is to ask you if it is possible to ignore users in the "sysops" group. These are the access entries I wind-up deleting to show non-sysop wiki utilization. If there isn't a configuration variable I can set in LocalSettings then maybe you could tell me where in the code I could implement that. If groups are tricky.. I would be happy with being able to list an array of users that the access log would ignore. Hope it's easy :-)  --- Rich (revansx) [0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Access_Log
 * Hi Rich, unfortunately this code is not my own but was written by an ex-student of mine some years ago. I don't currently have any one maintaining the code, and I also don't have time to do it myself. I think an "exclude-these-users-array" function would be a valuable addition, and would be happy to include it if you would like to develop it and send me a patch. Thanks and sorry for not being able to be more helpful. Robertpba (talk) 13:20, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
 * ok, I'm on it. Thanks... I'll let you know if/when I am able to implement it. I'm a decent PHP programmer, but I have everything to learn about mediawiki extension development and even the most basic aspects of the extension model and pre-requisite functions that might be assumed by experienced mediawiki developers. Do you have any programming guides or resources for new mediawiki programmers?