Visualize evolution of your MediaWiki based site
The easiest way to use this tool is via Docker:
docker pull ghcr.io/macbre/wiki-evolution:latest
docker run --name=wiki-evolution --rm -it -v $(pwd)/data:/tmp/wiki-evolution ghcr.io/macbre/wiki-evolution:latest bash
And then inside the container run:
nobody@3e68fe7411f8:/opt/wiki-evolution# ./bin/wiki-evolution.sh <wiki domain>
Gource log files and the rendered webm movie will be stored in the data/ directory on your host.
- MediaWiki-based wiki
- gource for visualizing the history (will create a set of images)
- ffmpeg 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 ffmpeg xvfb
should be enough on Debian-powered machines
For MacOS run:
brew install gource ffmpeg
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.
For large wikis with a long edits history you can include every N-th edit only:
EDITS_COMPRESSION=150 wiki-evolution muppet.wikia.com
This will include only the first, 150th, 300th, ... edit of each article.
Run the wiki-evolution script with DEBUG=1 env variable set to enable nodemw library debug mode:
DEBUG=1 EDITS_COMPRESSION=150 wiki-evolution muppet.wikia.com
...
debug: API action: query
debug: GET <http://muppet.wikia.com/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&rvprop=ids%7Ctimestamp%7Csize%7Cflags%7Ccomment%7Cuser&rvdir=newer&rvlimit=5000&titles=X&continue=&format=json>
...
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.