MediaWiki Sparkline Generator

Create a sparkline to visualise your MediaWiki contributions.

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How it Works

This project is a web server that:

1. Retrieves your MediaWiki contributions from the API of your MediaWiki instance.
2. Plots your contributions on a timeline over the last 90 days.
3. Renders an SVG file with a sparkline. a. The line chart sparkline was made by kryogenix.org (used with permission). b. The bar chart sparkline was made by me.

Using the Service

A hosted version of the sparkline service is available at sparkline.jamesg.blog.

The root endpoint for the service is:

https://sparkline.jamesg.blog

The following query string parameters are required:

• api_url: The root URL for your MediaWiki API.
• username: Your MediaWiki username.

The following values are optional:

• days: Number of days in history for which you want to retrieve stats. Min 1. Max 120.
• only_image: By default, the API returns a text page with some meta information and the sparkline embedded. Specify an only_image value to retrieve only an image.
• is_bar: Return a bar chart. This option is experimental.

Please note the username attribute is case sensitive.

Here is an example query to the endpoint:

https://sparkline.jamesg.blog/?username=Jamesg.blog&api_url=https://indieweb.org/wiki/api.php&only_image=true

This query returns a line sparkline graph my IndieWeb wiki contributions. The result is an SVG file.

Getting Started

First, install the required dependencies for this project. You can do this using the following command:

bundle install

Next, run the sparkline server:

ruby sparkline.rb

Language

This project is built in Ruby.

License

This project is licensed under an MIT 0 license.

Acknowledgements

Thank you to Stuart Langridge for allowing me to use his simple SVG sparkline file for the line graph chart.

Author

• capjamesg