mediawiki-container

A minimalistic container setup for mediawiki using php-fpm and caddy (and unless built to a specific step, Skin:Citizen). Uses openrc in the container. Defaults to using postgres as a backend.

Helpful Things

• MediaWiki:Manual:Short_URL (caddy is configured to handle /wiki/[page] by default)
  • MediaWiki ShortURL Builder, useful for the LocalSettings.php options
  • MediaWiki:Manual:$wgActionPaths for /edit/[page] and etc... (requires changing caddy config)
• MediaWiki:Extension:JsonConfig (preinstalled but may need to be added to LocalSettings.php in some cases)
• MediaWiki:Manual:Preventing access
  • For non-publicly-readable Wikis, MediaWiki:Manual:Preventing access#Restrict viewing of all pages
  • For non-publicly-editable Wikis, MediaWiki:Manual:Preventing access#Restricting Editing
• For anything using Extension:Scribunto, due to this setup being Alpine-based, you need to specify the system's lua in LocalSettings.php (similarly to how it's required on ARM). This can be done with $wgScribuntoEngineConf['luastandalone']['luaPath'] = '/usr/bin/lua5.1';
  • In future, we may symlink the preinstalled Lua to the system one.
• MediaWiki:Manual:$wgShowExceptionDetails for if error details are hidden and you need to show them. Should be false during day-to-day operations.
• MediaWiki:Syadmin Hub

Useful Pages to Copy

You can use Special:Import (on your wiki) and Special:Export (on external wikis) to copy templates (although this does require a lot of effort sometimes).

Some useful ones have been added below:

• MediaWiki:Template:Infobox Information
• StarCitizen:Template:Infobox (examples at StarCitizen:Category:Infobox_templates)
  • based on Wikipedia:Template:Infobox, but slightly less pain to import
• Wikipedia:Module:Article_stub_box and Wikipedia:Template:Stub

Additionally, all of the below from Wikipedia:Special:Export:

Module:Citation
Module:Hatnote
Module:Unsubst
Module:Sidebar
Module:Message_box
Module:Navbox
Module:Arguments
Module:Yesno
Module:Authority_control
Module:Infobox
Module:Navbar
Module:InfoboxImage
Module:Check_for_unknown_parameters
Module:If_empty

The Wikipedia Shenanigans

If all of this sounds fun, here's a complete list for the Wikipedia stuff:

Template:Stub
Module:Citation
Module:Hatnote
Module:Unsubst
Module:Sidebar
Module:Message_box
Module:Navbox
Module:Arguments
Module:Yesno
Module:Authority_control
Module:Infobox
Module:Navbar
Module:InfoboxImage
Module:Check_for_unknown_parameters
Module:If_empty
Template:Infobox_Information
Template:Infobox
Module:Article_stub_box
Template:Stub

(TODO: maybe also include all pages in the Wikipedia:Category:Wikipedia_metatemplates category?)

Credits

Minimally based on https://github.com/Wildsong/docker-caddy-mediawiki.