MediaWiki-Docker/Extension/Wikibase

This page instructs you to install Wikibase/Installation inside MediaWiki-Docker. All commands should be run in the directory where you installed MediaWiki. All mentioned files are also located there.

Install MediaWiki-Docker

Follow the Quickstart instructions at MediaWiki-Docker page. Once MediaWiki is running and available at http://localhost:8080, then continue with instructions on this page.

Clone the repository and its dependencies

git clone "https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/skins/MinervaNeue" skins/MinervaNeue
git clone "https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/Cite" extensions/Cite
git clone "https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend" extensions/MobileFrontend
git clone "https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/UniversalLanguageSelector" extensions/UniversalLanguageSelector
git clone "https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase" extensions/Wikibase

cd extensions/Wikibase
git submodule update --init --recursive

Install Composer dependencies

Add this to composer.local.json:

{
  "extra": {
    "merge-plugin": {
      "include": [
        "extensions/Wikibase/composer.json"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Run:

docker compose exec mediawiki composer update

Modify LocalSettings.php

If not already there, add this to the end of LocalSettings.php.

wfLoadSkin( 'MinervaNeue' );

wfLoadExtension( 'Cite' );
wfLoadExtension( 'MobileFrontend' );
wfLoadExtension( 'UniversalLanguageSelector' );

wfLoadExtension( 'WikibaseRepository', "$IP/extensions/Wikibase/extension-repo.json" );
require_once "$IP/extensions/Wikibase/repo/ExampleSettings.php";
wfLoadExtension( 'WikibaseClient', "$IP/extensions/Wikibase/extension-client.json" );
require_once "$IP/extensions/Wikibase/client/ExampleSettings.php";

$wgEnableWikibaseRepo = true;
$wgEnableWikibaseClient = true;

$wgWBClientSettings['dataBridgeEnabled'] = true;
$wgWBClientSettings['dataBridgeHrefRegExp'] = '[/=]((?:Item:)?(Q[1-9][0-9]*)).*#(P[1-9][0-9]*)$';
$wgWBClientSettings['dataBridgeEditTags'] = [ 'Data Bridge' ];

$wgWBRepoSettings['dataBridgeEnabled'] = true;
$wgWBRepoSettings['taintedReferencesEnabled'] = true;
$wgWBRepoSettings['termboxEnabled'] = true;

Run maintenance scripts

docker compose exec mediawiki php maintenance/update.php
docker compose exec mediawiki php extensions/Wikibase/lib/maintenance/populateSitesTable.php
docker compose exec mediawiki php extensions/Wikibase/repo/maintenance/rebuildItemsPerSite.php
docker compose exec mediawiki php maintenance/populateInterwiki.php