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What is Enterprise MediaWiki?

Daniel Scherzer (WikiTeq)

What I wish I knew

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Outline

  • My introduction to MediaWiki

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  • Terms

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  • What Enterprise MediaWiki includes

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  • Conclusion

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  • Questions?

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[[Marathon]]

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[[Marathon]]

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Terms

Enterprise: “A commercial or industrial undertaking; a firm, a company, a business.” (OED)

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Wikimedia/WMF: the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. a 501(c)(3) that hosts Wikipedia and a bunch of other things

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Phabricator/Phab: bugtracker used by MediaWiki, phabricator.wikimedia.org

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MediaWiki: the software that powers Wikipedia (among other sites)

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“core”: MediaWiki core, i.e. excluding extensions and skins

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Mikiwedia, Wediamiki: reserved for future use

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Enterprise MediaWiki

  • Hosting + development + maintenance + help desk + *
  • Anything MediaWiki-related that the clients want, and we are able to provide

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LTS targeting

  • Slower lifecycle
    • Released every 2 years (instead of 6 months)
    • Documentation challenges�
  • Updating
    • SemanticWatchlist
    • Hooks - [[phab:T261091]]

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Varieties

  • Extensions
    • Review requirements
      • RealMe ([[phab:T324536]])
      • Widgets
    • Performance requirements
    • SemanticMediaWiki, BlueSpice
    • VersionCompare�
  • Skins / appearance
    • Chameleon
    • Custom CSS

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Vocapedia

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Wikizilla

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How do I…

  • watch changes to a category?
    • [[Special:RecentChangesLinked]]
    • [[:mediawikiwiki:Special:MyLanguage/Extension:CategoryWatch]]

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  • embed an external resource?
    • [[:mediawikiwiki:Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Widgets]]
    • Tutorial

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Conclusion

Daniel Scherzer + WikiTeq

What I have learned

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Thank You!

Daniel Scherzer + WikiTeq

Any questions?