Cli

mw is a MediaWiki focused command line tool targeting developers.

Overview

The tool provides many ways for interacting with MediaWiki and Wikimedia services and software, from a developers perspective, such as GitLab, Gerrit, Toolhub etc. A core feature is a Docker-based development environment for MediaWiki.

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Installation Demo

Other Demos

• toolhub tools search
• toolhub tools list
• gerrit changes list
• codesearch --output ack
• codesearch --output table

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MediaWiki CLI

Repository	releng/cli
Issue tracker	#mwcli

Reference

Use the automatically generated reference for easy command navigation and help

Frequently asked questions

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Guides

Installation

Initial installation of mwcli.

Staying up to date

How to keep your tool up to date.

Docker development environment

Get started with a Docker-based development environment.

• First Setup
• Service Interaction
• LocalSettings.php
• MediaWiki
• Databases

Interacting with GitLab

Start with some basic interactions with the WMF GitLab instance.

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Links

• GitLab Repository
• Releases
• Phabricator task board

Testimonials

I helped a new hire with an event logging task that I had no clue about yesterday and was able to debug their problem in 5 minutes after realizing that I can just run mw dev eventlogging create and stare at the logs locally ❤ -- 31 July 2024