Extension:RecentActivity

**MediaWiki extensions manual**
RecentActivity; Release status: stable
Implementation	Parser function
Description	Adds a parser function to list recently created or edited articles, with optional filtering by user, namespace, and exclusion category.
Author(s)	Aran Dunkley; Luca Mauri;
Latest version	1.9.0
MediaWiki	1.39+
PHP	8.0+
Database changes	No
	Parameters $wgRAExclusionsCat; $wgRANamespaces;
Licence	GNU General Public License 2.0 or later
Download	GitLab: project page; git repository URL [help]; commit history; ;
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The RecentActivity extension adds the {{#RecentActivity:}} parser function, which queries the database for recently edited or recently created articles and returns a wikitext list. Results can be filtered by user, restricted to specific namespaces, and pages can be excluded via a category.

This version is a modernised fork of the original Extension:RecentActivity by Aran Dunkley, updated for compatibility with MediaWiki 1.39+ and PHP 8.0+.

Installation

Download extension from GitLab and place the file(s) in a directory called RecentActivity in your extensions/ folder.
Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:
```
wfLoadExtension( 'RecentActivity' );
```
Configure as required.
Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

Configuration

All configuration variables are optional. Add them to LocalSettings.php after the wfLoadExtension call.

$wgRAExclusionsCat: Pages belonging to this category will be excluded from all results.; Type: string; Default: 'Excluded from RecentActivity'

$wgRAExclusionsCat = 'My exclusion category';

$wgRANamespaces: Restrict results to pages in specific namespaces. Pass an array of namespace ID integers. If empty (the default), pages from all namespaces are included.; Type: array of integers; Default: [] (all namespaces)

// Return only pages from the main namespace (0) and Project namespace (4)
$wgRANamespaces = [ 0, 4 ];

This is the recommended way to exclude media files from results — set $wgRANamespaces = [ 0 ] to return only main-namespace articles.

Usage

The extension registers the {{#RecentActivity:}} parser function. All parameters are optional and passed as named arguments.

Parameters

Parameter	Description	Default
`type`	`edits` for recently edited pages, `new` for recently created pages	(required — returns nothing if omitted)
`user`	Filter results to edits or creations by this username	(all users)
`count`	Number of results to return	`5`
`format`	Wikitext list marker prepended to each result	`*`

Examples

Show the last five recently edited articles

{{#RecentActivity:type=edits}}

Show the last five recently created articles

{{#RecentActivity:type=new}}

Show the last five articles created by user Foo

{{#RecentActivity:type=new|user=Foo}}

Show the last ten recently edited articles

{{#RecentActivity:type=edits|count=10}}

Show recently edited articles with a double-asterisk prefix (useful for tree views)

{{#RecentActivity:type=edits|format=**}}

Debugging

Log output is written to the RecentActivity log group. To enable it, add the following to LocalSettings.php:

$wgDebugLogGroups['RecentActivity'] = '/var/log/mediawiki/recentactivity.log';