Extension:SportsTeams

SportsTeams is an extension that provides networking functionality. Users' networks will show up on their social profile pages and they can provide status updates related to each network, either directly on their profile or via the network page (i.e. "Go Mets!" if the user would be a fan of the New York Mets team, and so on).

Installation

 * 1) Get the source code
 * 2) You will also need the UserStatus extension (ArmchairGM version, which is in trunk/extensions/UserStatus); install it like how you'd install any other extension and don't forget to create its database tables
 * 3) Create two new writable directories,  and , under $wgUploadPath
 * 4) Create the new, required database tables (by re-running the MediaWiki updater script, update.php)
 * 5) Add the following into the wiki's LocalSettings.php:
 * 6) Get a Google Maps API key and set  in your LocalSettings.php, after requiring the extension's setup file
 * 7) Installation can now be verified through the wiki's Special:Version

Configuration and usage
Users with the  user right can use the   special page to create a new sport. Once there is at least one sport, teams can be added under that sport. After creating a team, you can upload a logo for it.

Once there are some teams, you (and other users) can become fans of these teams by going either into your social profile page or directly to Special:UpdateFavoriteTeams.

Special:SimilarFans shows users who are interested in the same teams as you are.

Network pages are accessible via Special:FanHome, although going to that special page directly will give you an error. A proper URL looks something like Special:FanHome&sport_id=1&team_id=25. Via the team's network page, you can join the network or leave it, see other users' status updates related to the team, (blog) articles related to it, the location of other fans on a Google Maps map and how many fans the team has altogether.

Special:TopNetworks shows the most and least popular sports and teams.

Parameters
In order for a map (provided by Google Maps) to show up on each network page, you need to obtain a Google Maps API key from Google and set  to the key you obtained; the default key is for localhost (http://localhost/).

User rights
The new  user right, which sysop and staff groups have by default, is required to add new sports and teams via Special:SportsTeamsManager.