Kipcool

Babel user information
fr-N Cet utilisateur a pour langue maternelle le français. en-4 This user has near native speaker knowledge of English. de-3 Dieser Benutzer beherrscht Deutsch auf hohem Niveau. es-3 Esta persona tiene un conocimiento avanzado del español.

Same as User:Kipmaster

• I am a MediaWiki developer, mostly (if not only) active in the WikiLexicalData extension and OmegaWiki.
• You can reach me as Kipcool at OmegaWiki.
• IRC: Kipcool

Git

• Download from Git
  • Gerrit/Tutorial#Amending_a_change
  • Gerrit/Advanced_usage#Unlink_bogus_dependencies_.28rebase_changes.29
  • for a clean start git reset --hard gerrit/HEAD

repositories

• Git MW core - Git MW 1.21 - list of tags/branches
• Git WikiLexicalData
• commits to merge

docs

• https://doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/master/php/

Resources

• ResourceLoader
  • ResourceLoader/Migration guide (users)
  • Directionality support
• Cache and performance
  • Manual:Performance tuning
  • disabling cache
• Manual:Configuration settings

Writing code

• Security checklist for developers, reducing reviewer anxiety
• Manual:Database access
• Manual:Coding conventions/PHP
• Manual:Developing extensions
  • Manual:Parser functions
  • Manual:RequestContext
  • API:Extensions
  • API source code
  • Manual:Hooks/LoadExtensionSchemaUpdates - to add tables in an extension
• Manual:Writing maintenance scripts
• Manual:Job queue
• Localisation (translatewiki)

Commands for OmegaWiki installation

git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/core.git --branch REL1_31 ow

to update:
git pull
?? git pull origin REL1_31 ??


to get access to external libraries
git clone -b REL1_31 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/vendor.git

cd skins
git clone -b REL1_31 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/skins/Vector.git

cd extensions
git clone -b REL1_31 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/Babel.git
git clone -b REL1_31 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/Cite.git
git clone -b REL1_31 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/ConfirmAccount.git
git clone -b REL1_31 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/ConfirmEdit.git
git clone -b REL1_31 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/googleAnalytics.git
git clone -b REL1_31 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/ImageMap.git
git clone -b REL1_31 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/Polyglot.git
git clone -b REL1_31 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/Renameuser.git
git clone -b REL1_31 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi.git

OmegaWiki proper
git clone https://github.com/kipcool/OmegaWiki-MW.git WikiLexicalData

for updating the database particularly after version changes
maintenance/update.php

Additional files to copy

cp ../ow/LocalSettings.php .
cp -r ../ow/images .
cp -r ../ow/downloads .
cp ../ow/BingSiteAuth.xml .
cp ../ow/favicon.ico .
cp ../ow/google*.html .
cp ../ow/robots.txt .
cp -r ../ow/sitemap .

code review

• Code review/Status flags