Extension:EasyTimeline/installation

This section deals with issues on how to activate EasyTimeline in other MediaWiki installations.

EasyTimeline is part of the MediaWiki software. However you need to do a few things in order to activate it.

Note: when you run MediaWiki on another platform than Linux, the following may not apply or be incomplete.

Download Ploticus
EasyTimeline uses open source program Ploticus, which is not included in the MediaWiki installation. Download the proper version for your OS here.

Download EasyTimeline.php
Follow this link to get the latest revision of this file : http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/wikipedia/extensions/timeline/Timeline.php?rev=HEAD

Remember to rename it to EasyTimeline.php.

Settings
Edit "LocalSettings.php" file:

include("extensions/EasyTimeline.php"); $wgTimelineSettings->ploticusCommand = "/usr/local/bin/pl"; $wgTimelineSettings->perlCommand = "/usr/local/bin/perl";
 * 1) Add support for EasyTimeline extension

Obviously, the path specified is just an example, you may need to set these parameters differently.

Script location
EasyTimeline.pl needs to be installed in WIKIDIR/extensions/timeline/EasyTimeline.pl (or make a symlink, of course)

Image directory
Create a directory for timeline images:

mkdir WIKIDIR/images/timeline chmod 777 WIKIDIR/images/timeline