Wikibase is a data repository for Mediawiki.

There are two main methods of installation

• As a Mediawiki extension
• As a Wikibase docker deployment

Visit the download page and fetch the correct version.

This guide details the steps required to install the extension which is also outlined below (Mediawiki 1.43).

Enter the mediawiki install dir and run composer. Composer ought to have been installed earlier.

rm composer.lock
composer install --no-dev

Update the LocalSettings.php file to enable the extension.

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

Run the initial maintenance scripts to build the database tables to prepare the site.

php maintenance/run.php update
php maintenance/run.php ./extensions/Wikibase/lib/maintenance/populateSitesTable.php
php maintenance/run.php ./extensions/Wikibase/repo/maintenance/rebuildItemsPerSite.php
php maintenance/run.php populateInterwiki

Github

This setup requires a modern version of docker to be installed and was tested on Debian bookworm on a dual core VM with 12GB of RAM.

git clone https://github.com/wmde/wikibase-release-pipeline

cd wikibase-release-pipeline/deploy
cp template.env .env

vi .env

# Public hostname configuration.

WIKIBASE_PUBLIC_HOST=wikibase.kewl.org
WDQS_FRONTEND_PUBLIC_HOST=wdqs-frontend.kewl.org
QUICKSTATEMENTS_PUBLIC_HOST=quickstatements.kewl.org

# MediaWiki / Wikibase user configuration.

MW_ADMIN_NAME=darron
MW_ADMIN_EMAIL=darron@kewl.org
MW_ADMIN_PASS=changemetoatleast10chars

# MediaWiki / Wikibase database configuration.

DB_NAME=kewl
DB_USER=sqluser
DB_PASS=changemetoatleast10chars

Foreground

docker compose up

Background

docker compose up --detach

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