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MostLeastPopular

Questions answered by this recipe

How can I keep a Page with Information about the most/Least popular pages in my wiki?

Description

A recipe that keeps a wiki page with information about the most/Least popular pages in a wiki

Installation

Donwload the recipe file and place it inside the cookbook folder, include a line in config.php that looks like this:

include_once('cookbook/recentviews-2018xxxx.php');

Where xxxx are month and day, on that order.

Configuration

There is no need for configuration, but you can change the name of the pages where information is kept, like this:

before or after loading the recipe you can reewrite a variable to change page names.

$RecentViewsFmt = array(
  '$SiteGroup.SomeOtherName' => 
    '* [[{$Group}.{$Name}]]  . . . $CurrentTime $[by] $AuthorLink: [=$ChangeSummary=]',
  '$Group.SomeOtherName' =>
    '* [[{$Group}/{$Name}]]  . . . $CurrentTime $[by] $AuthorLink: [=$ChangeSummary=]'
));

Internationalization

The following strings can be translated in an XLPage:

The translatable strings used are already covered by standard PmWiki functionality.

Usage

Once the script is loaded it will work by itself.

Notes

The name of this page is MostLeastPopular but the name of this recipe is RecentViews and the pages generated by it are also called RecentViews, and besides being almost a exact copy of standard PmWiki functionality (PostRecentChanges function), it covers a need to be filled on http://wikimatrix.org for PmWiki, that the PostRecentChanges function already does BUT only for pages that are edited. This recipe will register any activity or action regarded to a page, be it browse, edit, print, diff and all others, as long as PmWwiki is called and a action is provided, RecentViews will keep a record on that, which I believe is a better way to "calculate" page popularity.

To do / some day / maybe

Perhaps not just simply copy PmWiki functionality for this recipe but have something more elaborated to also keep the count of visits

Change log / Release notes

20180319 - First release - recentviews-20180319.phpΔ

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Contributors

Comments

See discussion at MostLeastPopular-Talk?