#shoogle tweet

mediawiki-shoogletweet is a mediawiki extension which useses OAuth2 for authentication. it displays the current tweets of a given screen name.

Retrieving oAuth2 access

To use this extension you have to create an oAuth2 application on the twitter "my application" page. If you've created the application, you'll retrieve a "Consumer Key" and "Consumer Key Secret" which is needed later.

Installing the extension

• Navigate to your mediawiki extension directory ($IP/extensions)
• git clone https://github.com/schinken/mediawiki-shoogletweet
• change inside that directory (mediawiki-shoogletweet)
• git submodule init
• git submodule update
• Enable the extension by adding the follwing lines to your LocalSettings.php-File inside your mediawiki directory

require_once("$IP/extensions/mediawiki-shoogletweet/ShoogleTweet.php");
$wgShoogleTweetConsumerKey = '#YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY#';
$wgShoogleTweetConsumerKeySecret = '#YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY_SECRET#';

Usage

Just add

<ShoogleTweet limit="6">b4ckspace</ShoogleTweet>

to you wikipage

You can also enable ShoogleTweet to display @-replies:

<ShoogleTweet limit="6" display_replies="true">b4ckspace</ShoogleTweet>

Style

The HTML result can be simply styled with this piece of css

#tw-list {
    margin:0;
    padding: 0;
}
#tw-list li{
    list-style:none;
    margin-bottom: 2px;
    padding: 4px;
}
#tw-list li.even{
    background-color:#f8f8f8;
}

Misc

page(s) using this extension:

• http://hackerspace-bamberg.de