I would like to display some of the more recent changes on the mediawiki main page that users's first see. I was thinking that I would have to write an extension to do this, and base my code upon whatever the Special:Recentchanges page is doing.
Is this a reasonable belief? Would you do it differently?
Thanks!
Hey Philip.
No need for an extension. This can be done out of the box. Just add something like "{{Special:RecentChanges/10}}" to your page and the last 10 recent changes will be displayed. More special pages are includable, by the way.
I made a tiny test page[1].
Cheers! Siebrand
[1] http://translatewiki.net/wiki/User:Siebrand/test
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- I would like to display some of the more recent changes on the mediawiki main page that users's first see. I was thinking that I would have to write an extension to do this, and base my code upon whatever the Special:Recentchanges page is doing.
Is this a reasonable belief? Would you do it differently?
2009/7/1 Siebrand Mazeland s.mazeland@xs4all.nl:
Hey Philip.
No need for an extension. This can be done out of the box. Just add something like "{{Special:RecentChanges/10}}" to your page and the last 10 recent changes will be displayed. More special pages are includable, by the way.
I made a tiny test page[1].
Nice!
Can you specify that you want to hide minor changes, or should that be done in my user preferences?
Dan.
Cheers! Siebrand
[1] http://translatewiki.net/wiki/User:Siebrand/test
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- I would like to display some of the more recent changes on the mediawiki main page that users's first see. I was thinking that I would have to write an extension to do this, and base my code upon whatever the Special:Recentchanges page is doing.
Is this a reasonable belief? Would you do it differently?
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Please note that this puts an additional stress on your database, Wikimedia went down after someone put that on the German Wikipedia's main page.
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Dan Bolserdaniel.bolser@gmail.com wrote:
2009/7/1 Siebrand Mazeland s.mazeland@xs4all.nl:
Hey Philip.
No need for an extension. This can be done out of the box. Just add something like "{{Special:RecentChanges/10}}" to your page and the last 10 recent changes will be displayed. More special pages are includable, by the way.
I made a tiny test page[1].
Nice!
Can you specify that you want to hide minor changes, or should that be done in my user preferences?
Dan.
Cheers! Siebrand
[1] http://translatewiki.net/wiki/User:Siebrand/test
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- I would like to display some of the more recent changes on the mediawiki main page that users's first see. I was thinking that I would have to write an extension to do this, and base my code upon whatever the Special:Recentchanges page is doing.
Is this a reasonable belief? Would you do it differently?
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I bet what he wants to do is make a blog like I did for my Mom, http://abj.jidanni.org/ . On Main_page I didn't transclude recentchanges, but instead just gave a link to Special:NewPages marked "<<< START HERE". I didn't use any extensions, even the ones especially for blogs. For larger blogs one should probably give in and surrender to WordPress though, (with its more rambunctious design philosophy (that was too much for me (e.g., it makes outbound HTTP connections on its own))).
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