wiki-evolution
Visualize evolution of your MediaWiki based site
Requirements
- MediaWiki-based wiki
- gource for visualizing the history (will create a set of images)
- avconv to convert a set of images to a video file
- xvfb to run gource in a virtual X server environment
- nodejs with
npminstalled
Running
sudo apt-get install gource libav-tools xvfb
should be enough on Debian-powered machines
How to install and run it?
npm install -g wiki-evolution
and then run wiki-evolution <wiki domain>, for instance:
wiki-evolution poznan.wikia.com
wiki-evolution fo.wikipedia.org
This will install wiki-evolution npm module globally
and render the visualization for poznan.wikia.com and Faroese Wikipedia.
Genesis
Port of WikiEvolution extension developed during Wikia 2012 internship programme by @drzejzi. It's meant to be run standalone (i.e. outside MediaWiki stack) and generate wonderful videos of how your site evolved from its very beginning.