Sunflower MediaWiki

Sunflower MediaWiki is a new multi-purpose MediaWiki distribution.

(This is a draft)

Objectives

By providing an "essential MediaWiki" for administrators around the world, several goals are to be achieved:

1. To promote the awareness and distribution of MediaWiki, extensions, bundles, communities and service providers.
2. Create a collaborative project for third-party users and developers (non-profit and for-profit) to improve stability:
   1. Organizing the maintenance of the included extensions
   2. Sharpening awareness of the basic functions with which new functions must cooperate
   3. Providing a basis for the technical developments of various projects: Meza, Semantic MediaWiki, BlueSpice MediaWiki, Language Bundle and many more
   4. 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	Arrays Auth_remoteuser CirrusSearch ConfirmAccount CommentStreams Data Transfer DisplayTitle DynamicPageList Echo ExternalData Email Authorization FlaggedRevs GraphViz googleAnalytics Header Tabs Hit Counter JSBreadCrumbs LDAPProvider LDAPAuthentication2 LDAPAuthorization LDAPGroups LDAPUserInfo Lockdown Maps Math Mermaid Mpdf MsCalendar MsUpload MultimediaViewer MyVariables OpenID Connect Page Forms Pipe Escape PluggableAuth Popups SimpleSAMLphp Tabs TemplateData TemplateStyles TitleIcon UploadWizard UrlGetParameters UserFunctions UserMerge Variables VisualEditor Widgets YouTube Cargo Semantic MediaWiki Semantic Result Formats Semantic Scribunto	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/
• There will be only one edition, where different sets of extensions can be enabled

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?