Mediawiki Google PlusOne

This is just a little hack to add the Google +1 button to a mediawiki installation. See technical notes on integrating Google +1 button for webmasters

Simply add the following snipped to your LocalSettings.php.

Remarks:

• It will add a button between title and article content.
• I chose to move it to the right for aesthetic reasons, cf "div align=right", feel free to modify
• I enforced the html attribute on g:plusone to avoid some special URLs to be taken into account instead of the canonical one, e.g. a button on http://wiki.yobi.be/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=print will actually link to http://wiki.yobi.be/wiki/Main_Page
• Because I used hook ArticleViewHeader, it will only display the button on article pages, and not on edition, history, etc.

# Google Plus
$wgHooks['BeforePageDisplay'][]  = 'fnPlusOneJavaScript';
function fnPlusOneJavaScript( $out )
{
  $script = '<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js">'
            . '</script>';
  $out->addScript( $script);
  return true;
}

$wgHooks['ArticleViewHeader'][] = 'fnPlusOneAnchor';
function fnPlusOneAnchor( &$article, &$outputDone, &$pcache )
{
    global $wgOut;
    global $wgTitle;
    $wgOut->addHTML('<div align=right><g:plusone size="medium" href="' . $wgTitle->escapeLocalUrl() . '"></g:plusone></div>');
    return true;
}

And make sure you purge the server cached pages. One easy way is to add the following to your LocalSettings.php to clean the cache whenever LocalSettings.php is edited:

$wgCacheEpoch = max( $wgCacheEpoch, gmdate( 'YmdHis', @filemtime( __FILE__ ) ) );

From v1.17 of mediawiki you can use this instead:

$wgInvalidateCacheOnLocalSettingsChange = true;