User:Spm/MWDublinCore

A proposal to move this page to MediaWiki.org was rejected.

An extension that gives a bit more Dublin Core style metadata to an article, via a new action. Quite good for projects that use MediaWiki that, like the one I'm working on, have government sponsorships that require a fair amount of easely accessable metadata. :)

If anybody else finds use for this, go nuts. Change it or fix it or whatever. Please send me any changes though.

MWDublinCore Download
Current Version: v0.2 (6. january 2006).

It's a simple enough plugin. Just download the tarball and extract to the extensions/ directory, then log in to your MySQL database and "source metadb.sql". Finally add

include("extensions/metadata/metamain.php");

to your LocalSettings.php (at the bottom).

Then you will have access to a new action called "meta", and new tags:

 <meta:creator>Creator name</meta:creator>
 <meta:description>Article description</meta:description>
 <meta:subject>Subject or keywords</meta:subject>
 <meta:source>Original version of article</meta:source>
 <meta:relation>Relations or references</meta:relation>

The last tag can be used often for more references. Only one relation per tag though!

Thanks

Thanks to Ray Kimsey for a wonderful tab patch.

TODO

Make plugin work with <geo> tag.
Fix output page.

Bugs

Probably plenty of them. Let me know.

Contact

Icelandic Wikipedia Talk Page
E-mail: spm2 at hi dot is