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Monday, July 4, 2011

Embedding +1 (Google Plus) on MediaWiki sites

Here are the steps that I followed for embedding +1 button on a MediaWiki Site that I administer - called as GeetShabda - which is a place for sharing lyrics for Marathi songs.

See this Page to see it working!

As per the code provided by Google on the Webmasters site - I started exploring options to include it in the MediaWiki site. However, I could not find any ready steps - so I decided to share this with everyone.

1. 
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script>

2. 
<g:plusone></g:plusone>

Steps for MediaWiki installations:

(I am a newbie to Mediawiki and hence this might not be the *best way* to achieve this)

Go to LocalSettings.php

Add the following code

$wgHooks['BeforePageDisplay'][] = 'MyExtensionJavaScript';

function MyExtensionJavaScript( $out )

{

# -----------------------------------------------

# Merge JavaScript into OutputPage

# -----------------------------------------------

$script = '<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js">'
. '</script>';

$out->addScript( $script);

return true;

}

--- This ensures that the step (1) above happens correctly. and the plus one API is loaded and referenced from the HTML head.

2. Go the the .php file . In my case the site uses the Vector template and hence I edited the Vector.php

1. In Vector.php add the below code after

<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading"><?php $this->html( 'title') ?>
<g:plusone size="medium" href="/"></g:plusone>
</h1>

And voila - You would have a +1 Button on all your pages.

Update: 14-July: Rendering of code update (as per comment by Tom. Thanks!)

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Cold Drinks!

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Friday, September 10, 2010

Beautifying Wiki URL(s)

Recently, I started helping my sister for developing geetshabda . The site (project) aims to build the largest repository of information on music in local languages in India and especially Marathi - to begin with.

Due to this, I decided to get my hands dirty into MediaWiki. Below tips should help you in setting up clean URL(s) for your media-wiki installation on GoDaddy.

* When testing these instructions, be sure to launch a new browser instance to prevent browser caching from hiding the latest configuration changes.

[edit] .htaccess
Create .htaccess in wiki installation directory (with GoDaddy File Manager or by FTP) with this content:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^wiki/(.*)$ /index.php?title=$1 [PT,L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^wiki/*$ /index.php [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^/*$ /index.php [L,QSA]

[edit] LocalSettings.php

Add the following to the end of LocalSettings.php (in Subdomain directory):

# SHORT URLS:
$wgScriptPath = ""; # Path to the actual files
$wgArticlePath = "/wiki/$1"; # Virtual path

It may be necessary to set $wgUsePathInfo to true with this code:

$wgUsePathInfo = true;

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Best Programming Quote Ever.

It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.

-Nathaniel_Borenstein

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