Extension:RecentActivity

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RecentActivity

Release status: stable

Implementation Parser function
Description Adds parser functions for listing recently created and edited articles.
Author(s) Aran Dunkley (Nadtalk)
Latest version 1.1.1  (2012-05-25)
Latest preview version
MediaWiki all versions
Database changes No
License GPL
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The RecentActivity extension allows the generation of lists of recently created articles or recent edits either by anyone, or by a specific user. By default it will give five results ordered by most recent first in a bullet list format.

Usage[edit | edit source]

Show the last five articles that have been edited
{{RecentActivity:type=edits}}
Show the last five articles that have been created
{{RecentActivity:type=new}}
Show the last five articles that have been created by user Foo
{{RecentActivity:type=new|user=Foo}}
Show the last ten articles that have been edited
{{RecentActivity:type=edits|count=10}}
Show the last five articles that have been edited, each preceded by two asterisks (useful for putting in treeviews)
{{RecentActivity:type=edits|format=**}}

Installation[edit | edit source]

  • Copy the code into a file and extract the file(s) in a directory called RecentActivity in your extensions/ folder.
  • Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php:
require_once "$IP/extensions/RecentActivity/RecentActivity.php";

Configuration[edit | edit source]

Exclusions

Articles that are members of the Excluded from RecentActivity category will not be shown in the list. The category used to exclude articles can be set in the $wgRecentActivityExclusionsCat configuration variable.