Wikibase extension running on Mediawiki.
If no LocalSettings.php file is mounted then an installation & update will automatically happen.
If LocalSettings.php is mounted then the image assumes you will do this yourself.
Automated build.
| Image name | Parent image |
|---|---|
wikibase/wikibase : latest, 1.35, lts, latest-base, 1.35-base, lts-base |
mediawiki:1.35 |
wikibase/wikibase : 1.31, 1.31-base |
mediawiki:1.31 |
wikibase/wikibase : latest-bundle, lts-bundle, 1.35-bundle |
wikibase:1.35 |
wikibase/wikibase : 1.31-bundle |
wikibase:1.31 |
Wikibase operates a continuous development model (alongside Mediawiki), where software changes are pushed live to Wikimedia sites such as Wikidata on a regular basis.
The LTS (long term stable) and EOL (end of life) versions and dates for Wikibase are the same as those for Mediawiki.
See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Version_lifecycle for more details.
Wikibase-bundle images are built from the base wikibase images and also include the following additional extensions:
- OAuth
- Elastica
- CirrusSearch
- CLDR
- WikibaseImport
- UniversalLanguageSelector
- EntitySchema (from 1.33)
- WikibaseCirrusSearch (from 1.34)
When upgrading between Wikibase versions you will have to run update.php to update your mysql tables.
A blog post documenting the update progress for this image in a docker-compose setup can be found here
Note: MW_ADMIN_NAME and MW_ADMIN_PASS probably shouldn't be here...
| Variable | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
DB_SERVER |
"mysql.svc:3306" | Hostname and port for the MySQL server to use for Mediawiki & Wikibase |
DB_USER |
"wikiuser" | Username to use for the MySQL server |
DB_PASS |
"sqlpass" | Password to use for the MySQL server |
DB_NAME |
"my_wiki" | Database name to use for the MySQL server |
MW_SITE_NAME |
"wikibase-docker" | $wgSitename to use for MediaWiki |
MW_SITE_LANG |
"en" | $wgLanguageCode to use for MediaWiki |
MW_ADMIN_NAME |
"WikibaseAdmin" | Admin username to create on MediaWiki first install |
MW_ADMIN_PASS |
"WikibaseDockerAdminPass" | Admin password to use for admin account on first install |
MW_WG_SECRET_KEY |
"secretkey" | Used as source of entropy for persistent login/Oauth etc..(since 1.30) |
| Directory | Description |
|---|---|
/var/www/html |
Base Mediawiki directory |
/var/www/html/skins |
Mediawiki skins directory |
/var/www/html/extensions |
Mediawiki extensions directory |
| File | Description |
|---|---|
/LocalSettings.php.template |
Template for Mediawiki Localsettings.php (substituted to /var/www/html/LocalSettings.php at runtime) |
/var/www/html/LocalSettings.php |
LocalSettings.php location, when passed in /LocalSettings.php.template will not be used. install.php & update.php will also not be run. |
/extra-install.sh |
Extra code that will be run if LocalSettings.php isn't present (since 1.30) |
/extra-preinstall-runtime.sh |
Extra code that will be run from the entrypoint every time (since 1.30) |
Maintenance scripts from extensions and mediawiki core can be run with docker exec using the wikibase/wikibase container as the targeted container
For example to run a maintenance script from WikibaseImport:
docker exec <container name / hash> php //var/www/html/extensions/WikibaseImport/maintenance/importEntities.php --entity Q147
A new image should be created for every major release of MediaWiki and Wikibase. These images currently use the MediaWiki docker hub base image, so that needs to have a new version prior to updates here.
- Create a new release folder, copying the content from a previous release
- Update the base Dockerfile to fetch the latest mediawiki image
- Update the bundle Dockerfile to use the new version of the base image
- Update download-extension.sh to fetch new versions of the extensions
- Update the CI build by checking the steps in the main README Development section in this repo.
Releases that are no longer supported per the Version lifecycle can be deleted.