One of the most interesting vantage points from which to monitor goings-on around the CUNY Academic Commons is the BuddyPress activity feed. The sitewide feed – located on the Commons’s News page – lists all the activity happening the blogs, groups, and profiles around the site. There are activity streams for individual users and for those users’ friends as well – you can mine, for instance, here.
Until recently, though, these streams did not include information the activity taking place in the wiki portion of the site. I’ve developed a extension for MediaWiki (the software that powers the Wiki section of the Commons) called BuddyPressActivity that rectifies this shortcoming. For websites – like the CUNY Academic Commons – that have integrated our homegrown MediaWiki/Wordpress MU integration, this extension will update BuddyPress activity streams to include edits to pages within the wiki, thus better reflecting the extent and variety of the action on the site.
You can find out more about the extension – and download the code for use on your own MW/WMPu installation – at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:BuddyPressActivity.
Awesome work, Boone — as always!
Fantastic news, thanks Boone!
I got this error:
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /../wiki/extensions/buddypress-activity/buddypress-activity.php:2) in /../wiki/includes/WebResponse.php on line 16
Is this extension compatible with WordPress 3.0? The Cuny website appears to be regularly updated with new versions of WordPress, so I would think so. But the Mediawiki extension page has not been similarly updated.
No, I haven’t updated this plugin. I’m accomplishing the same goal (getting MW edits into the BP activity stream) in a different, more BuddyPress-focused way, using RSS and this plugin: http://dev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2010/05/25/new-buddypress-plugin-bp-external-activity/