Extension:Twitter4wiki

MediaWiki extensions manual

Twitter4wiki Release status: beta
Description	Takes tweets from an twitter account and provides them on a wiki page
Author(s)	Thomas Pfeiffer (Tompfeiffertalk)
Latest version	0.1
License	No license specified
Download	http://webevangelisten.de/wp-content/uploads/twitter4wiki.tar.gz
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What can this extension do?

This extension fetches all the tweets from your friends, you are following on Twitter, and provides them in an mediawiki-project.

Usage

To print out the Tweet, just write on the appropriate page the tag

<twitter4wiki/>

That's all.

Installation

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

require_once("$IP/extensions/twitter4wiki/twitter4wiki.php");

Configuration parameters

All configuration is done within the file twitter4wiki/config.php.

• Set up the URL to the rss-Feed, you want to catch

$twitter4wikiRSS='http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline/yourPersonalNumberHere.rss

• Define, which tweets to take and how to translate the usernames

$twitter4wikiOwners=array('UsernameInTwitter'=>'NameToDisplay','OtherUsernameInTwitter'=>'OtherNameToDisplay');

• Set up your Username and Password for Twitter

$twitter4wikiUser='YourUsername'; $twitter4wikiPass='YourPassword'

See Also

• Twitter, Twitter Search and Twitter List widgets on MediaWikiWidgets.org site, they use Widgets extension.