Mediawiki development environment

A development environment for Mediawiki

Setup development environment

Clone your project to folder volumes/src

Example:

git clone https://github.com/youroganization/repositoryname volumes/src

To each file that you want to override from your project into mediawiki, you will need to put inside folder volumes/src/mediawiki and run the follow command:

docker compose exec mediawiki php /var/www/scripts/init.php

Clone the MediaWiki project source, or put your existing mediawiki folder, into volumes/mediawiki

Example:

git clone  --progress --single-branch --depth 1 --branch 1.41.0 --recurse-submodules -j 4 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/core.git volumes/mediawiki

Check if you will need to change any default environment value at docker.compose.yml and if you need to change, create a .env file with the custom environments values.

Run the command:

docker compose up

Install extension

COMPOSER=composer.local.json composer require --no-update mediawiki/page-forms
composer update --no-dev -o

Updates if have database change

php maintenance/update.php --quick