Extension:AchievementBadges

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AchievementBadges
Release status: experimental
Implementation Special page
Description Provides an achievement system
Author(s) Femiwiki Team
Latest version 0.3.0
Compatibility policy Snapshots releases along with MediaWiki. Master is not backward compatible.
MediaWiki 1.35+
Composer femiwiki/achievement-badges
License GNU Affero General Public License 3.0 or later
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CHANGELOG
Help Help:Extension:AchievementBadges
  • $wgAchievementBadgesAchievementFallbackOpenGraphImage
  • $wgAchievementBadgesFacebookAppId
  • $wgAchievementBadgesDisabledAchievements
  • $wgAchievementBadgesReplaceEchoWelcome
  • $wgAchievementBadgesReplaceEchoThankYouEdit
  • $wgAchievementBadgesAchievements
  • $wgAchievementBadgesEnableBetaFeature
  • $wgAchievementBadgesAchievementFallbackIcon
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AchievementBadges is an extension that provides an achievement system for MediaWiki wikis.

  • No Dependencies: There are only optional dependencies, unlike other similar achievement system extensions.
  • Customizability: There are built-in achievements, but you can disable each of them as needed.
  • Extensibility: If you are a developer, you can create your own achievements via hooks.

Features edit

  • Special:Achievements shows the list of the achieved achievements to logged-in users.
  • The user who earned an achievement will get notification. (Echo required)
  • You can install AchievementBadges as a beta feature. (BetaFeatures required)

Installation edit

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

Configuration edit

Parameters edit

TBD. See the extension.json for live update.

Variable Default value Description
$wgAchievementBadgesEnableBetaFeature false Whether to have AchievementBadges available only as a beta feature and only shown to the users who have enabled the beta feature.
$wgAchievementBadgesReplaceEchoThankYouEdit true Whether to suppress edit milestone notifications sent from Echo.
$wgAchievementBadgesAchievementFallbackIcon 'extensions/AchievementBadges/images/achievement-icon-fallback.svg' Path to the fallback icon of achievements which is relative to the $wgScriptPath. The icon can be different for ltr and rtl languages. icons for specific languages can also specified using the language code.
$wgAchievementBadgesAchievementFallbackOpenGraphImage 'extensions/AchievementBadges/images/achievement-og-image-fallback.png' Path to the fallback imago of achievements which is showed as an Open Graph image. Could be an array value, like $wgAchievementBadgesAchievementFallbackIcon
$wgAchievementBadgesAchievements [] Contains a key-value pair list of achievements. The thresholds should not be changed.
$wgAchievementBadgesDisabledAchievements [] Keys of achievements should be excluded.
$wgAchievementBadgesFacebookAppId false Facebook App id for SNS sharing.
$wgAchievementBadgesAddThisId false AddThis id for SNS sharing. it could include tool id in a form of array has keys 'pub' and 'tool'.

Others edit

SNS sharing links display in Special:ShareAchievement are just plain text. The interface administrator of the wiki can styling it via Common.css. See below example.

.mw-special-ShareAchievement .share-media a {
  display: inline-block;
  width: 2em;
  height: 2em;
  background-size: 2em;
}
.mw-special-ShareAchievement .share-media span {
  display: none;
}
.mw-special-ShareAchievement #share-achievement-facebook {
  background-image: url(https://PATH/TO/SOME_LOGO.png);
}
.mw-special-ShareAchievement #share-achievement-twitter {
  background-image: url(https://PATH/TO/SOME_LOGO2.png);
}

Creating a new achievement edit

Do not create a new achievement during the beta period.

Definitions edit

Achievement definitions happen in the method that responds to the BeforeCreateAchievement hook.

If you are adding a achievement type, its name should be 32 bytes or less including the index number(edit-page-3). The numbers is appended to the key of stats achievements automatically based on the thresholds of the achievements.

public static function onBeforeCreateAchievement( array &$achievements ) {
    global $wgScriptPath;
	$achievements['my-new-achievement'] = [
		'type' => 'instant',
		'priority' => 500,
		'icon' => "$ScriptPath/path/to/icon.svg",
		'og-image' => "$ScriptPath/path/to/og-image.png",
	];
}
description default allowed value
type TBD. 'instant' or 'stats'
priority TBD. 1000 int
icon TBD. $wgAchievementBadgesAchievementFallbackIcon string
og-image TBD. $wgAchievementBadgesAchievementFallbackOpenGraphImage string

Your i18n messages:

  • achievementbadges-achievement-name-my-new-achievement - for the name of the achievement. This is appears as a title of notification, displayed as a description in Special:Log, and displayed in Special:Achievements and Special:ShareAchievement.
  • achievementbadges-achievement-hint-my-new-achievement - for the Special:Achievements description that appears when the achievement is not achieved.
  • achievementbadges-achievement-description-my-new-achievement - for the Special:Achievements description that appears when the achievement is achieved and displayed in Special:ShareAchievement.

TBD.

Trigger the achievement edit

public static function onSomeHook( User $user ) {
    if ( !$user->isAnon() ) {
        Achievement::achieve( [ 'key' => 'my-new-achievement', 'user' => $user ] );
    }
}

TBD.

Additional notes edit

Currently, a record of user achievement is stored in logging table as a log. If a log is suppressed, the achievement is also removed.

See also edit


This extension was originally made for Femiwiki.