MediaWiki History Sparklines Greasemonkey Script
At the end of last month, I started a consulting gig with the WikiMedia Foundation. Part of the gig involves reviewing the MediaWiki docs and learning MediaWiki from a developer’s perspective. To help me more easily know when docs are out of date and to start getting a better handle on an external developer’s experience of MediaWiki, I’ve written a little Greasemonkey script that shows sparklines (aka tiny graphs) of the last three years of edits for pages on MediaWiki sites.
You can see what the sparklines look like in the screenshot below:
MediaWiki History Sparklines Greasemonkey Script Screenshot
Like other Greasemonkey scripts, you’ll need Firefox (and a recent version – 3.5+) with Greasemonkey installed to run this script. The script relies on the awesome jQuery and jQuery Sparklines libraries (which Greasemonkey will silently install for you.)
To install the script, click here.
If you’d like to contribute patches, note a problem or the like, visit http://github.com/zakgreant/Miscellaneous/tree/master/mw_history_sparkline. The code is licensed under the permissive Simplified BSD license, which allows you to do almost anything with it.
The MediaWiki History Sparklines Greasemonkey Script by Zak Greant, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Posted on Friday, June 4th, 2010 at 18:53
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