Extension:SocialProfile

Summary
What's the brief

Develop a company culture that stimulates curiosity and motivates people

Our thinking

Two strands:

1. Reward for curiosity and innovation

2. Motivate colleagues to 'go the extra mile'

3. Enable knowledge sharing and best practice across the network

4. Make the process easy to use and understand for all levels of experience

5. Meritocratic - Simple to quantify who deserves the prize

Our idea

As a business we gain commercial advantage from our innovation, which comes from diverse ways of thinking about client problems. How can we encourage people to innovate more, by allowing them to access to different business and national cultures. So the idea is:

A central hub for sharing all the great work that goes on in Mediacom offices around the world. Anyone can upload a link to a piece of innovative work they have presented to a client. If the work is useful for a different office, the author can visit that office to introduce it to a different market. While there ideally they would stay with colleague and share a week in the life of their buddy. This would be decided on two metrics - the amount of time they spent on the Wiki and the value to the business. Initially rewards would be for basic interaction in order to encourage broad participation of the scheme

Why is it right

a. Encourages innovation

b. Broadens knowledge

C. Easy to get involved

d. Great reward

e. Cost to business offset by knowledge sharing

Avatars
Users can upload an avatar which will appear on profile pages and user board posts. Administrators (or other users with the avatarremove privilege) can remove offensive or inappropriate avatars through Special:RemoveAvatar.



Profile Page
Users will have a profile page, which displays friendships with other users, basic profile information, and any public messages they received.



Editing Profile Information
Users can update their profile information with a simple form.



User Board
You can send public or private messages to other users with the User Board. The User Board supports wiki text and also has conversation threads between users.



Board Blast
Users can send messages to multiple friends or foes using Board Blast.



Installation
To install SocialProfile extension, please follow the steps below.

Copy All Necessary Files into the Extension Folder
First, copy all files into the extensions folder, maintaining the current file structure. For example:

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If you install the folder in a different location please change any path references below.

Create database tables
Run the script 'install.php' from the command line (Database superuser has to be mentioned in AdminSettings.php)

LocalSettings.php
Open LocalSettings.php in your favourite non-Windows Notepad text editor and add the following lines:

If $wgExtraNamespaces has already been defined in the file, you need to throw the above two namespace declarations into that array, like this:

Directories
The following directories should exist under the wiki's $wgUploadDirectory:
 * avatars/ &mdash; the directory where all user-uploaded avatar images are stored
 * awards/ &mdash; system gift (award) and normal gift images will be stored here

Please read below for more info.

Add Default Avatar Images
Please move the directory  from   for images used in your MediaWiki installation. This directory should be writeable.

Add Awards Folder
Please move the directory  from   for images used in your MediaWiki installation. This directory should be writeable. The images included in this folder by default can be used for awards if you upload them through Special:SystemGiftManagerLogo, but they won't show up as "defaults" the same way avatar default images do show up.

Update MediaWiki source code
In the past, you had to register AJAX functions by editing /includes/AjaxFunctions.php. This is no longer necessary as of version 1.3.

If you're using an older version of SocialProfile, the following lines should be present in your /includes/AjaxFunctions.php file:

Settings
Some features will not work without additional modifications, but if chosen by the site admin, may be left out.

Friends/Foes
To enable friends/foes to display on the user page, the following additions need to be made to LocalSettings.php:

The following settings should be placed directly under the require_once line:

Board
To enable the Board to display on the user page, allowing users to view messages posted, the following additions need to be made to LocalSettings.php:

The following settings should be placed directly under the require_once line:

User-specific statistics
To enable per-user statistics that show up on the profile pages, add the following into your wiki's LocalSettings.php:

Points/rank system
User Levels show on the users' profile pages and on various other places across the wiki. This feature is available from SocialProfile version 1.1 onwards (37590).

Note that this feature must be correctly configured, or it can interfere with other features, such as Avatar upload and messaging. See the discussion on the talk page.

To enable User Levels, add something like the following into your wiki's LocalSettings.php, after calling SocialProfile.php:

You may also want to configure the actions the for which points are being awarded. By default, 50 points are awarded on a main namespace edit. The defaults are:

Most of the above require separate Wikia extensions to be installed and configured. However, there are actions for which you can give out points without installing separate extensions. These actions are:
 * editing ($wgUserStatsPointValues['edit'])
 * friending another user ($wgUserStatsPointValues['friend'])
 * foeing another user ($wgUserStatsPointValues['foe'])
 * uploading your first avatar ($wgUserStatsPointValues['user_image'])
 * sending a gift ($wgUserStatsPointValues['gift_sent'])
 * receiving a gift ($wgUserStatsPointValues['gift_rec'])

Even if you didn't want to change the defaults, you might need to re-define one $wgUserStatsPointValues variable after including EditCount.php and defining $wgUserLevels. You could just add the following default to your wiki's LocalSettings.php, assuming that you don't want to change it:

After UserLevels is configured, you might want to visit Special:UpdateEditCounts to initialize the points (requires you to be in the staff usergroup). You should also visit this page every time after changing $wgUserStatsPointValues.

The list of users with the most points can be seen at Special:TopUsers.

New Configuration Variables Introduced in 1.3

 * $wgUserGiftsDirectory &mdash; path to UserGifts files. Defaults to $IP/extensions/SocialProfile/UserGifts.
 * $wgUserGiftsScripts &mdash; similar to the above. Defaults to $wgScriptPath/extensions/SocialProfile/UserGifts.
 * $wgSystemGiftsDirectory</tt> &mdash; path to SystemGift files. Defaults to $IP/extensions/SocialProfile/SystemGifts</tt>.
 * $wgSystemGiftsScripts</tt> &mdash; Defaults to $wgScriptPath/extensions/SocialProfile/SystemGifts</tt>.
 * $wgFriendingEnabled</tt> &mdash; whether to enable friending or not. Not really effective, don't rely on it.
 * $wgMaxCustomUserGiftCount</tt> &mdash; maximum number of private custom gifts that a user may create. If not set (as per default), normal users cannot access Special:GiftManager, only those with giftadmin privileges can access it. Please note that when this is set, users can create their own gifts but they cannot delete them.
 * $wgGiveGiftPerRow</tt> &mdash; (description needed)

New Special Pages in 1.3 release

 * Related to SystemGifts a.k.a the award functionality:
 * Special:TopAwards &mdash; lists the awards that have been given out the most times.
 * Special:ViewSystemGifts &mdash; a special page for viewing all of your own awards.
 * Special:ViewSystemGift &mdash; not meant to be accessed directly.
 * Special:SystemGiftManager &mdash; allows to add and remove awards, requires the awardsmanage right.
 * Special:SystemGiftManagerLogo &mdash; allows to upload award images which will be stored in the awards</tt> folder. Restricted to users with the awardsmanage right.
 * Special:PopulateAwards &mdash; a special page to give out awards. Restricted to the staff user group.


 * Related to UserGifts a.k.a user-to-user gifting functionality:
 * Special:GiveGift &mdash; a special page that allows you to give a gift to another wiki user.
 * Special:ViewGifts &mdash; a special page for viewing all your own gifts.
 * Special:ViewGift &mdash; not meant to be accessed directly.
 * Special:GiftManager &mdash; allows to add, remove and modify gifts. Restricted to users with the giftadmin right or all logged-in users if $wgMaxCustomUserGiftCount is set.
 * Special:GiftManagerLogo &mdash; allows to upload new gift images, restricted to users with the giftadmin right.
 * Special:RemoveMasterGift &mdash; allows to remove a gift completely, restricted to users with giftadmin right.
 * Special:RemoveGift &mdash; allows an individual user to remove a gift given to him/her.

Restricted Special Pages
Certain special pages introduced by SocialProfile extension are restricted to the staff user group by default. To enable access to the special pages Special:PopulateUserProfiles, Special:UpdateEditCounts and Special:PopulateAwards, create a user group called staff and add yourself into the group.

If you do not want to create such a user group however, you can manually edit the files extensions/SocialProfile/UserProfile/SpecialPopulateUserProfiles.php</tt>, extensions/SocialProfile/UserStats/SpecialUpdateEditCounts.php</tt> and extensions/SocialProfile/SystemGifts/SpecialPopulateAwards.php</tt>.

Custom Information
The titles of the custom text input boxes can be changed, via the pages:
 * MediaWiki:Custom-info-field1
 * MediaWiki:Custom-info-field2
 * MediaWiki:Custom-info-field3
 * MediaWiki:Custom-info-field4

Logging
SocialProfile adds two logs: avatar log (Special:Log/avatar), which tracks avatar image uploads and user profile log (Special:Log/profile), which tracks changes to users' social profiles. Since version version 1.1 (37590), avatar and profile logs can be hidden from the recent changes as they tend to flood the recent changes list quickly.

To turn off the display of avatar uploads, set:

To turn off the display of user profile changes, set:

Both of these variables are pre-set to false in version 1.1.

Customization of Profile
The user profile allows several custom hooks to inject custom data into the profile. You can add anything above and below both columns of the profile by the following hooks:

Reporting software bugs
Bugs and issues can be reported on the talk page:

http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Extension_talk:SocialProfile&action=edit&section=new

or on the MediaWiki Bugzilla (select SocialProfile as the component):

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions

Licensing and downloads
The extension is available under the GNU General Public License 2.0 or later, and the newest version can always be downloaded from MediaWiki SVN:
 * http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/SocialProfile/

Older releases of SocialProfile extension can be also downloaded from MediaWiki SVN and they are located in the tags/extensions/SocialProfile/</tt> directory:
 * http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/extensions/SocialProfile/

The software is provided as-is. Updates will be made when critical vulnerabilities are discovered.