Forum:How to .. embed a Tunngle Live List in a wiki page

 This article is only an abstract. For the complete documentation see: Gadget - Tunngle Live List

Tunngle is free virtual private network (VPN) software and allows any interested parties to extend their local area network (LAN) to include computers at remote locations around the world. It provides a secure, wide area network that behaves like a LAN when it comes to hosting and joining multi-player games that support a local network style of game play. Your LAN party options are no longer limited to the one room or building. In this way it functions very much like Hamachi. (see www.tunngle.net for more information)

At www.tunngle.net/network-browser you can see a live list of Tunngle channels and the number of users in each channel. That list can be sorted and filtered seven ways from Sunday for those who care to play with it.

It seems like a good idea to have a more succinct version of this available to Wikia's community of wikis.
 * Although Gaming wikis may seem like the primary benefactors there is no reason why other Wikia communities should not take advantage of this easy* to setup and use VPN technology.

The image below lets you see, for each of the standard Monaco skins available at Wikia, just how this gadget-in-widget renders in the sidebar. For comprehensive documentation at a wiki that has the gadget extension enabled, please visit: w:c:test-najevi:Gadget - Tunngle Live List

At such a wiki the list is based on live data retrieved from www.tunngle.net and will update each time the page is refreshed. Unlike www.tunngle.net/network-browser, this widget rendered list is not interactive because it is expected that each wiki will care only for one small group of channels.

As demonstrated at Gadget - Tunngle Live List, the list may be enabled or disabled on a per-user basis via your personal preferences. The default is disabled so each user must opt-in via their Special:Preferences - Gadgets tab to take advantage of this feature.
 * opt-in ... what a novel concept! ;-)


 * The international Tunngle client is due to be released on 11-Dec-2009 so unless you can read and understand a German user interface, you'd be well advised to wait until then to download and test drive the Tunngle VPN software.

enjoy! -- najevi 17:29, December 7, 2009 (UTC)