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
- Development of a common basis for different projects: Meza, Semantic MediaWiki, BlueSpice MediaWiki and many more
- 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
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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?