Using MediaWiki Vagrant can help speed up development by taking care of the complexities of installing various extensions.
Testing Wikidata description changes edit
- Enable the `wikidata` role and after a provision you will be provided with an instance of Wikidata available at http://wikidata.wiki.local.wmftest.net:8080/
- You will need to link a Wikidata article to the corresponding non-Wikidata wiki.
- Create a new page using http://en.wiki.local.wmftest.net:8080/wiki/Wikidata test article
- Create a new item using http://wikidata.wiki.local.wmftest.net:8080/wiki/Special:NewItem
- Under statements on the newly created item click edit next to Wikipedia, type language en and type Wikidata test article to link the two.
- Now visit http://en.wiki.local.wmftest.net:8080/wiki/Wikidata test article and the articles should be linked.