Extension:StockCharts
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This extension is currently not actively maintained! Although it may still work, any bug reports or feature requests will more than likely be ignored. If you are interested in taking on the task of developing and maintaining this extension, you can request that the extension be imported into Git. As a courtesy, you may want to contact the author. You should also remove this template and list yourself as maintaining the extension in the page's {{extension}} infobox. |
 Release status: unmaintained |
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| Implementation | Special page |
| Description | Allows users to include interactive financial charts within an article. Charts cover stocks prices, but also economic data such as the Consumer Price Index and interest rates. Charts are flash-powered and users can pan and zoom without a page refresh. Data is provided by Thomson / Reuters and Xignite, with a 15-20 minute delay. |
| Author(s) | Brendan Meutzner, Anton Zolotkov, Roger Fong |
| Latest version | 0.1 (2009-06-04) |
| MediaWiki | 1.9.3+ |
| License | No license specified |
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The StockCharts extension adds a <stockchart ticker="TIKR"/> tag extension and {{#stockchart: ticker="TIKR"}} parser function that allows users to include interactive financial charts within an article. Charts cover stocks prices, but also economic data such as the Consumer Price Index and interest rates. Charts are flash-powered and users can pan and zoom without a page refresh. Data is provided by Thomson / Reuters and Xignite, with a 15-20 minute delay.
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LicenseEdit
Copyright 2007-2009 Wikinvest.com
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.
AuthorsEdit
Brendan Meutzner ( brendan @ wikinvest.com )
Anton Zolotkov ( anton @ wikinvest.com )
Roger Fong ( roger @ wikinvest.com )
Pre-requisitesEdit
This extension was tested with Mediawiki 1.9.3 and 1.15alpha.
Configuration & InstallationEdit
- Get the source via SVN
- Add this line to your LocalSettings.php
require_once('extensions/StockCharts/StockCharts.php');
Use and OptionsEdit
To embed a stock chart in an article, use the syntax:
<stockchart ticker="TIKR"/>
or
{{#stockchart: ticker="TIKR"}}
The 2nd syntax works within templates.
Options you can specify are:
- ticker - stock ticker (required)
- width - width of chart
- height - height of chart
- title - custom title for chart
- range - range / zoom of chart. Possible values: "1 day", "5 days", "1 month", "3 months", "6 months", "1 year", "2 years", "5 years", "10 years", "full"
Bugs and enhancementsEdit
Bugs or feature requests can be sent to the author at charts-help @ wikinvest.com.