GlobalStats

Mediawiki extension.

Description

• Version 1.2.1
• GlobalStats collects everyday stats for wiki.
• See special page Special:GlobalStats for results.

Installation

• Make sure you have MediaWiki 1.29+ installed.
• Download and place the extension to your /extensions/ folder.
• Add the following code to your LocalSettings.php: wfLoadExtension( 'GlobalStats' );
• Add file with name $wgSitename.csv (see LocalSettings.php) to the /data/ folder.
• In case od wikifarm more files like this can be added.
• Create bot account at wiki.
• Copy cron/config-bot.sample.php to cron/config-bot.php and set variables.
• Set variables in cron/config.php.
• Set CRON job for cron/updateStat.php ... every day.
• /data/ folder and cron/logincookie.txt must be writable for user running PHP.

Details

• Running a couple of times (with some delay) recommended. Server can be down at this exact moment.
• Stats are stored in CSV file. New line is appended only once a day.
• In case of Wikifarm with one shared extensions folder, we can create CSV files for all sites.

SpecialPage

Special:GlobalStats - browsing and exporting statistics.

Internationalization

This extension is available in English and Czech language. For other languages, just edit files in /i18n/ folder.

RELEASE NOTES

1.2

• views count removed

1.2.1

• $out->addWikiText deprecated, use $out->addWikiTextAsInterface instead

Authors and license

• Josef Martiňák, Petr Kajzar
• MIT License, Copyright (c) 2023 First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University