Wikidata Local Dev Setup

This repository contains a default configuration and wiki creation script to get to a local development setup that somewhat mirrors Wikidata and a Wikipedia wiki. It is inherently perpetually in progress.

Installation

Preparations

The files/scripts here are intended to work together with the mwcli development environment.

Make sure you have installed mwcli: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cli/guide/Installation
Make sure you have completed its first-time setup: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cli/guide/Docker-Development-Environment/First-Setup
- this includes making sure you have a LocalSettings.php file in the root directory of your mediawiki core clone

Required extensions and skins

These default settings assume some extensions to be present. The best way to get them is to filter for them in the list of all repositories, and then clone them (with the long command including the commit-msg hook) directly into mediawiki/extensions/.

Wikibase
WikibaseLexeme
WikibaseQualityConstraints
EntitySchema
Scribunto
ArticlePlaceholder
MobileFrontend
WikimediaBadges

Further, two skins are needed:

Vector, which should have been installed as part of the mwcli first-time setup above
MinervaNeue, which can be cloned with the process described above, but this time into the directory mediawiki/skins/.

Link the files

For the contents in this repository to work, the favicons and the DefaultLocalSettings.php have to be hard-linked into the mediawiki/ directory.

You can install the files correctly by running:

./linkFilesToMediawikiDirectory.sh <path to your mediawiki directory>

This linking step has to be repeated after each git pull or similar in the current repository!

Load the default settings

Then, in your LocalSettings.php (which must already be inside the mediawiki directory) somewhere in the beginning, after requiring the docker-related LocalSettings, add the following:

require_once __DIR__ . '/DefaultLocalSettings.php';

For example, the top of my own mediawiki/LocalSettings.php looks like this:

<?php

require_once '/mwdd/MwddSettings.php';

require_once __DIR__ . '/DefaultLocalSettings.php';

// ... other settings

Usage

After completing the setup above, there should be a createWiki.sh file linked inside your mediawiki/ directory. You can just execute that file to create two linked wikis and a few initial entities from scratch:

./createWikis.sh