Mediawiki SvGViz extension

Definition

SvGViz is a mediawiki extension to visualize the links in a page.

Here is copy of the readme file:

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WikiViz: Installation guide
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| SVGViz, a MediaWiki(1.9.3) extension                                 |
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| Copyright (C) 2007  Romain Sauvain                                   |
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| This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
| modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
| as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
| of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
|
| This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
| but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
| MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
| GNU General Public License for more details.
|
| You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
| along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
| Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston,
| MA  02110-1301, USA.
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| Author: Romain Sauvain <romain.sauvain@a3.epfl.ch>                   |
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SVGViz is an extension for the MediaWiki platforme. (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki)
SVGViz creates a specific visualization of the MediaWiki semantic content diplayed with SVG

ATTENTION: SVGViz requires PHP 5!
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SVGViz-Installation
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PLACEMENT
1) download SVGViz zip, unpack and put the SVGViz package into the directory "extensions". Do not change the name of the directories or files.

2) put the follwing line into the file "LocalSettings.php" 
(just after "require_once( "includes/DefaultSettings.php")"
 or at the end of the script)

# SvgViz Extension
require_once("extensions/SvgViz/SvgViz.php");

3) Sets the permissions of the "tempfiles" directory to "write", so that Php would be
able to create temporary files in this directory.


DEFINE PATH AND GLOBALS
4) Open the file "define.php" in the directory "includes" of SVGViz
(go to "SVGViz" directory and find "includes" directory there).

5) Define your default selected Node name: open the script "define.php" in the 
directory "includes" - define the global variable "$initialNodeName" with your 
default Node-name.

VIEW
6) Go to specialpages on MediaWiki. You will find "SVGViz" in the list.
   You should also have link callec "Visualise this article" in your left menu.


IF SOMETHING GOES WRONG (added by DKS / June 26)

There may be a problem with wikiproject.php, i.e. definition of file and URL pathes (look at the beginning and the end of the file).

At TECFA we have the following setup (file LocalSettings.php):

$wgScriptPath	    = "/mediawiki";
$wgScript           = "$wgScriptPath/index.php";
$wgRedirectScript   = "$wgScriptPath/redirect.php";

# DKS 3/2006
$wgArticlePath      = "/en/$1";

$wgStylePath        = "$wgScriptPath/skins";
$wgStyleDirectory   = "$IP/skins";
$wgLogo             = "$wgStylePath/monobook/tecfa/wiki.png";

$wgUploadPath       = "$wgScriptPath/images";
$wgUploadDirectory  = "$IP/images";

Apache httpd.conf looks like this:

Alias /mediawiki "/data/portails/mediawiki"
Alias /en "/data/portails/mediawiki/index.php"
Alias /en/index.php "/data/portails/mediawiki/index.php"