Add Statistics to MediaWiki Project
Some time ago, I was looking for a MediaWiki extension to generate statistics for a wiki of mine, but found no solution. Today, though, I was looking through the source for FireStats, the statistics plugin for WordPress that I use for this blog. There was a file named firestats-mediawiki.php, and apparently, it has native support for MediaWiki. Do like this to install FireStats on your wiki project:
- Upload FireStats to the wiki folder (
/wiki/,/w/or something like that) - Edit line 3 of
firestats-mediawiki.php(therequire_once()statement) to correspond with your directory structure. - Upload
firestats-mediawiki.phpto theextensions/directory in the wiki root directory. - Add the line
include("extensions/firestats-mediawiki.php");somewhere inLocalSettings.php. - Enjoy!
Note that you will have to create the stats table. You don’t have to do it manually; but you have to start the script by going to the FireStats subdirectory (usually /wiki/firestats) and inputing database information. The only problem that I ran into during the installation was that the main page kept displaying the following error:
FireStats is not installed in the database, go to the Database tab to configure FireStats
It kept showing up, even after I had created the tables. The cause for this was the MediaWiki caching — after I edited the page and refreshed, it showed up like it should.
I recommend this plugin a lot.
Använder FireStats
This is completely irrelevant to this post, but on that site hackthissite… I am stuck on Basic Web Level 4. I changed the scripting myself without hassle and hints, but then… I dont know. The password didnt send to my email. I now realize that its not suppose to. But if it’s not doing that… then where do I find the password??
Comment by Unidentified — January 30, 2007 @ 5:07 am
Nevermind. :]
Comment by Unidentified — January 30, 2007 @ 11:59 pm
Hi,
I am in the process of transfering my static web web pages to mediawiki format. I came across your FIRESTATS post and succesfully installed it following the instructions above. The probalem is no stats are showing up.
I seem to be getting two error messages: One in red on the top of the page that reads: “Error updadating bots list: Empty url” and another to the right of the FIRE STATS logo that reads: “1.1.5-stable Error getting version information from http://files.firestats.cc/firestats.latest?version=1.1.5-stable : 13 could not connect to the host “files.firestats.cc”"
Do you know what this means? I followed all your intructions to the letter. Did I forget to do something?
Thanks in advance for your help,
M.
Comment by Martin — February 20, 2007 @ 7:23 pm