RealTimeUsers

Mediawiki extension.

Description

• Extension gathers and displays info about wiki's real time users. Information is taken from server access log.
• Active users are those who have sent a hit within the last five minutes.
• Adding tag
  • mode="number": numer of RT users refreshing in given interval (default 30s)
  • mode="chart": chart of RT users' snapshots in given intervals (default 30min)
  • mode="combo": box with complete available information (default choice)
• It works on main page only

Installation

• Make sure you have MediaWiki 1.29+ installed.
• Download and place the extension to your /extensions/ folder.
• Set variables in extension.json.
• Create symlinks to logfiles (with correct rights)
  • ln -s /var/log/..../????.access.log data/wiki.log.
  • ln -s /var/log/..../????.access.log.0.bz2 data/wiki.log.0.bz2.
  • ln -s /var/log/..../????.access.log.1.bz2 data/wiki.log.1.bz2.
  • ln -s /var/log/..../????.access.log.2.bz2 data/wiki.log.2.bz2.
  • ln -s /var/log/..../????.access.log.3.bz2 data/wiki.log.3.bz2.
  • ln -s /var/log/..../????.access.log.4.bz2 data/wiki.log.4.bz2.
• Set Cron job cron/saveRecentRealTimeUsers.py at every 30th minute */30 * * * *.
• Add the following code to your LocalSettings.php: wfLoadExtension( 'RealTimeUsers' );
• cron/saveRecentRealTimeUsers.py shouldn't be accessible from web.

Internationalization

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

Authors and license

• Josef Martiňák
• MIT License, Copyright (c) 2020 First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University