ShoogleList is an MediaWiki-Extension to provide an overview of a specific category. It's not just a simple list of articles inside a specific category - it parses data from a template used inside the article
An example can be found here: https://hackerspace-bamberg.de/Projekte
To use shooglelist inside your mediawiki you only have to specify the shoogle-tag:
<shoogle defaultdesc="This is a default description" defaultimg="Cat default processor.png">Projekt</shoogle>
As you can see, you are able to define an default image and description, which is used if neither the image or the description is specified in the article project-template. This examples indexes all articles inside the category "Projekt".
Possible arguments are:
defaultdesc (string) - default description if the article doesnt have an description
defaultimage (string) - default image if article doesnt have an image
thumb_size (integer) - thumbnail size (default 180)
trim_text (integer) - trims text to a given length (default off)
limit (integer) - on "project of the day"-mode the amount of items shown
In order to work correctly you have to specify a ProjektInfobox-Template inside your article:
{{Infobox Projekt
|name = ShoogleList Github Example
|autor = schinken
|beschreibung = Some basic usage example of shooglelist
|image = ShoogleList Preview Image.png
}}
This template is also available here: https://hackerspace-bamberg.de/index.php?title=Vorlage:Infobox_Projekt&action=edit and requires a lot of installation and configuration to work (which i wont explain here :))
Switch to your mediawiki-extension directory:
cd /var/www/mediawik/extensions
Clone ShoogleList from my repostory (or a fork on your repository):
git clone https://github.com/Schinken/shooglelist.git
instead you can also install it from tarball:
wget 'https://github.com/Schinken/shooglelist/tarball/master' -O ShoogleList.tar.gz
tar xvfz ShoogleList.tar.gz
... and as the last step, you need to add the extension to your LocalSettings.php (in your mediawiki-root directory):
include_once("$IP/extensions/ShoogleList/ShoogleList.php");