Extension:Nimbus

What can this extension do?
Nimbus is a flash presentation of top categories which degrades to a text Category Cloud similar to "Cumulus". Based on "WikiCategoryTagCloud" by Daniel Friesen and "WP-Cumulus Port to mediawiki" by Luc

Usage
All variables have "reasonable" defaults, which can be overwritten on the MediaWiki page.

Typical MediaWiki implementation:

|- | class="nimbus" style="text-align:center" | &lt;tagcloud style="background: transparent; padding:0; border:0;"> flash=1 increase_factor=150 exclude=CategoryName, Delete, Help &lt;/tagcloud> |-

Options
The full set of options which can be passed from the Wiki Page are:

Installation
To install this extension, add the following to LocalSettings.php:

require_once("$IP/extensions/Nimbus/Nimbus.php");

You must have in the Nimbus directory
 * swfobject.js
 * tagcloud.swf
 * Nimbus.php (see below)

Demonstration
A Demonstration is available at wiki.gis.com