UESPWiki:DailyEdits

Special:DailyEdits is a custom extension written to simply display the number of edits per day meant to be used as a rough indicator of the wiki's activity.

Features

• Output count of wiki edits by day in table form.
• Sort by date or by daily edit count.
• Optional graph output to image.
• Optional output in CSV format.
• Tested on MediaWiki 1.19.3. In theory it should work fine down to 1.14. Before that it may require modification to work.

Installation

• Download/copy the 5 files below into your MediaWiki's /extensions/DailyEdits/ directory.
• Add a line require_once("$IP/extensions/DailyEdits/DailyEdits.php"); into your LocalSettings.php file.
• Access the page via your wiki's Special:DailyEdits link.
• If you wish to setup the generation of graph image files see the #Graph Setup Notes below.

Files

• DailyEdits.i18n.php
• DailyEdits.php
• SpecialDailyEdits.php
• dailyedits-plot.cfg -- GNUPlot file for generating the optional graph.
• uesp-create-dailyedits-plot -- Shell script to output the daily edit counts to a file for use by GNUPlot.

Graph Setup Notes

Some additional setup is needed to get the daily edit's graph to work:

• Install GNUPlot (tested on v4.0.0).
• Edit the uesp-create-dailyedits-plot file to work with your wiki:

• Update the database name in the SQL query.
• Supply the necessary permissions for the SQL query to work.
• Change the location of the dailyedits.dat file if desired.

• Edit the dailyedits-plot.cfg as needed:

• Set the output location of the dailyedits.png image file. This should be somewhere that can be accessed publicly with your web server.
• Update the location of the dailyedits.dat file if changed.
• Change the image size and graph options as desired.

• Manually run the uesp-create-dailyedits-plot script to ensure it correctly outputs the edit counts to the file and the graph image.
• In your wiki's LocalSettings.php file update the value of $wgDailyEditsGraphFile to point to the graph image. This should be done after you include DailyEdits.php.
• View your Special:DailyEdits page to ensure the graph image is displayed.
• (Optional) Setup uesp-create-dailyedits-plot to be run daily to automatically update the daily edit graph image (i.e., copy into /etc/cron.daily/).