The Wikimedia foundation Wiki.

CREATE DATABASE mediawiki CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci;
CREATE USER 'mediawiki'@'X.X.X.X' IDENTIFIED BY 'mediawiki';
GRANT ALL ON mediawiki.* TO 'mediawiki'@'X.X.X.X' WITH GRANT OPTION;
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Site configuration

apt install composer
composer -V
Composer version 2.5.5 2023-03-21 11:50:05

apt install php-pear php-dev
pecl install APCu
echo "extension=apcu.so" >> /etc/php/8.2/mods-available/local.ini
ln -sf /etc/php/8.2/mods-available/local.ini /etc/php/8.2/fpm/conf.d/10-local.ini

mkdir -p /var/www/htdocs/www.example.com
cd /var/www/htdocs/www.example.com
wget "https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.43/mediawiki-1.43.0.zip"
unzip mediawiki-1.43.0.zip
mv mediawiki-1.43.0 w
chown -R www-data:www-data w

Visit the wiki site and follow the installation procedure which will conclude with a download of the LocalSettings.php file.

Edit the settings file and upload to the server and installation is complete.

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;
wfLoadExtension('Nuke');

During installation the locale may be set to “en-gb” (or something else) and it's preferable to use “en”.

“en” is the default language and when searching for an item with an un-associated language.

There is no known option to change this default to “en-gb” (or whatever else).

Add the following to LocalSettings.php

$wgLanguageCode = "en";

Now clear and reset the language to “en”.

echo 'MediaWiki\MediaWikiServices::getInstance()->getMessageCache()->clear()' | php maintenance/run.php eval
php maintenance/run.php userOptions.php language --old en-GB --new en

To disable internationalisation in user preferences, add the following to LocalSettings.php

$wgHiddenPrefs[] = 'language';

DeleteBatch

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