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 npm installed

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.

Examples

• Poznań Wiki
• Inciclopedia
• German GTA Wiki
• Muppet Wiki
• Kill Bill Wiki
• Marvel Database

Read more

• gource - recording Videos