Sunflower MediaWiki

Sunflower MediaWiki is a new multi-purpose MediaWiki distribution.

(This is a draft)

Objectives

• Creation of a joint project and impact point for third-party users
  • non-profit and for-profit
• Development of a common basis for different projects: Meza, Semantic MediaWiki, BlueSpice MediaWiki and many more
  • Forster stability
• Promoting MediaWiki and additional bundles / communities
• Deliver a "essential MediaWiki" for admins around the world
• Define with which basic functions new functions have to work together
• Organize the maintenance of the included extensions
• Opportunities: Development of programming standards and agreement on technologies and architectures

Target group

• Admins and developers who run MediaWikis in a professional environment
• Cloud Service Providers

Distribution

A first proposal for extensions that are delivered with Sunflower

Extensions by MediaWiki	Extensions by Sunflower MediaWiki	Skins by MediaWiki	Skins by Sunflower MediaWiki
CategoryTree Cite CiteThisPage CodeEditor ConfirmEdit Gadgets ImageMap InputBox Interwiki LocalisationUpdate MultimediaViewer Nuke OATHAuth PageImages ParserFunctions PdfHandler Poem Renameuser ReplaceText Scribunto SpamBlacklist SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi TextExtracts TitleBlacklist WikiEditor	Auth_remoteuser CirrusSearch ConfirmAccount CommentStream DynamicPageList Echo FlaggedRevs googleAnalytics LDAPProvider LDAPAuthentication2 LDAPAuthorization LDAPGroups LDAPUserInfo Lockdown Maps Math Mpdf MsCalendar MsUpload MultimediaViewer PageImages PluggableAuth Popups SimpleSAMLphp Tabs TemplateData TemplateStyles TextExtracts TitleIcon UploadWizard UserMerge Variables VisualEditor YouTube	MonoBook Timeless Vector	Chameleon 2.0 Erudite Foreground Metrolook

It also comes with a "best practice default configuration" for all of these extensions/skins.

Technical details

The distribution is build using composer and published as "tarball" and "docker image" (may include Parsoid and ElasticSearch)

Release and distribution

Approach: The releases of Sunflower will / can be delivered by Hallo Welt! for the MediaWiki Stakeholders. MWStakeholders offer an automatically (?) provisioned (?) rolling release on a public download portal: http://sunflowermediawiki.org/

Branding

A branding of one's own is time-consuming but necessary in order to create a project that is attractive and open to all stakeholders (from Wikimedia to Nichework, Meza to SMW) and builds bridges here.

Open questions

• Distribution:
  • Adding Semantic / Cargo? BlueSpice Foundation? Basix extensions for extension families
• Decision making and responsiblities
  • Release Board: Who will attend?
• Roadmap?