Disqus

Add Disqus blog comments engine.

I use my own AvbDisqus extension to add Disqus functionality to my MediaWiki site.

Source code of Disqus extension for MediaWiki can be found there: http://devwiki.beloblotskiy.com/index.php5/AvbDisqus_(MediaWiki_extension)

Google AdSense

Adding Google AdSense module into MediaWiki.

Ad module added with help of Google AdSense extension for MediaWiki engine. This small extension does all routine work.

1. Download Google AdSense extension for MediaWiki (1.14+).
2. Unpack to "extensions" directory.
3. Update LocalSettings.php (see below).
   
4. Update common.css (http://devwiki.beloblotskiy.com/index.php5?title=MediaWiki:Common.css). New CSS fragment can be found here. This step is really optional.
   

LocalSettings.php
require_once( "extensions/GoogleAdSense/GoogleAdSense.php" );
$wgGoogleAdSenseClient = 'pub-8940041409402700';
$wgGoogleAdSenseSlot = '2005982900';
$wgGoogleAdSenseID = 'AvbWiki_Right_Skyscraper_120x600';
$wgGoogleAdSenseWidth = 120;
$wgGoogleAdSenseHeight = 600;

All these parameters are from Google AsSense code.

As always, all extensions are listed here...

Upgrade to 1.15

Upgrade MediaWiki 1.13 to MediaWiki 1.15

Delails are here: http://devwiki.beloblotskiy.com/index.php5?title=MediaWiki_upgrade_history

Disable new user registration

Add into LocalSettings.php
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;

Only administrator will be able to create a new account. To do this administrator should use special link: index.php5?title=Special:UserLogin&type=signup

Google Analytics

How to add Google Analytics script into MediaWiki engine? Or how I've wrote my first MediaWiki extension. The first idea was to patch skins and add analytics script before </body> tag. Of course, it isn't nice to patch all skins and keep these files coherent in future. Next idea was to patch Skin::bottomScripts() or Skin::outputPage(). Finally, I've decided to write extension which use one of standard hooks to add additional JavaScript code in result page generated by MediaWiki.

Finally:
MediaWiki extension to add Google Analytics script in each wiki page.

Check product home page.

Create file /extensions/AvbGoogleAnalytics/AvbGoogleAnalytics.php

This is extension body written on PHP.

<?php

if( !defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) die( -1 );

// Add hook on SkinAfterBottomScripts.
$wgHooks['SkinAfterBottomScripts'][] = 'onSkinAfterBottomScripts_AddAvbGoogleAnalyticsScript';


// returns Google Analytics tracker script
function getAvbGoogleAnalyticsScript($analytics_id)
{
$s = "\n<!-- avb: AvbGoogleAnalytics -->\n"
   . "<script type=\"text/javascript\">\n"
   . "var gaJsHost = ((\"https:\" == document.location.protocol) ? \"https://ssl.\" : \"http://www.\");\n"
   . "document.write(unescape(\"%3Cscript src='\" + gaJsHost + \"google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E\"));\n"
       . "</script>\n"
   . "<script type=\"text/javascript\">\n"
   . "var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker(\"" . $analytics_id . "\");\n"
   . "pageTracker._trackPageview();\n"
   . "</script>\n"
   . "<h6>avb:2</h6>\n";

return $s;
}

// Event 'SkinAfterBottomScripts': At the end of Skin::bottomScripts()
// $skin: Skin object
// &$text: bottomScripts Text
// Append to $text to add additional text/scripts after the stock bottom scripts.
// Documentation: \mediawiki-1.13.0\docs\hooks.txt
function onSkinAfterBottomScripts_AddAvbGoogleAnalyticsScript($skin, &$text)
{

// Change "YOUR-ANALYTICS-ID" to your actual analytics id
// (analytics id is string like "UA-1223032-7")
$text .= getAvbGoogleAnalyticsScript("YOUR-ANALYTICS-ID");
return true;
}

?>

And the final step - add the line below at the end of your LocalSettings.php

require_once("extensions/AvbGoogleAnalytics/AvbGoogleAnalytics.php");

Full article is here.

Logo

Logo has been changed to
Instruction $wgLogo = "/skins/common/images/avbwiki.png" was added into LocalSettings.php

Dynamic Page List

Today I'm looking for plug-in for generating article list for main page (for example, list of new articles or list of new edits). It seems DynamicPageList extension will be helpful in this situation. In fact, DynamicPageList or (also known as DPL) is base for number of other plug-ins (for example, Wgraph, TreeAndMenu, Calendar).

DPL manual is here.

As recommended here, I'll install DynamicPageList itself and Call and Inputbox. There are no cross references in DPL extensions in Semeb_extensions.zip!

Step 1
Invoke DPL from your LocalSettings.php with

require_once("extensions/DynamicPageList/DynamicPageList2.php");


Step 2: skipped

There is a special feature in DPL which needs another extension: If you use page inclusion and want to use images as link symbols for the original source you must install the LinkedImage extension. For details see there.

Step 3: skipped

In some special cases (when DPL queries refer to uncategorized pages) DPL needs a special database view in the MySQL database. You should run the database statement which creates that view if you want to use DPL statements which refer to uncategorized pages. Many installations work well without that and you can postpone this step until you really need it. If DPL cannot execute a DPL statement without that view it will issue a corresponding warning. More...