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

Extension / skin name	Maintained	Maintainer	Activated	Notes
Extensions
Arrays
Auth_remoteuser
Cargo	yes	Yaron Koren / WikiWorks	no
CategoryTree
CirrusSearch
Cite
CiteThisPage
CodeEditor	yes			necessary for code edits within the VisualEditor
CommentStreams
ConfirmAccount
ConfirmEdit
DataTransfer
DisplayTitle
DynamicPageList
Echo
EmailAuthorization
ExternalData
FlaggedRevs	yes
Gadgets
googleAnalytics
GraphViz
HeaderTabs
HitCounter
ImageMap
InputBox
Interwiki
JSBreadCrumbs
LDAPAuthentication2
LDAPAuthorization
LDAPGroups
LDAPProvider
LDAPUserInfo
LocalisationUpdate
Lockdown
Maps
Math
Mermaid
Mpdf
MsCalendar
MsUpload
MultimediaViewer	yes	Wikimedia Foundation
MyVariables
Nuke
OATHAuth	yes	Wikimedia Foundation
OpenIDConnect
PageForms	yes	Yaron Koren / WikiWorks
PageImages
ParserFunctions
PdfHandler
PipeEscape
PluggableAuth
Poem
Popups
Renameuser
ReplaceText
Scribunto
SemanticMediaWiki	yes	mwjames	no
SemanticResultFormats
SemanticScribunto
SimpleSAMLphp
SpamBlacklist
SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi
Tabs
TemplateData
TemplateStyles
TextExtracts
TitleBlacklist
TitleIcon
UploadWizard
UrlGetParameters
UserFunctions
UserMerge
Variables
VisualEditor	yes	Wikimedia Foundation
Widgets
WikiEditor
YouTube
Skins
MonoBook
Timeless
Vector
Chameleon 2.0	yes	Stephan Gambke
Erudite
Foreground
Metrolook

Technical details

• The distribution comes with a "best practice default configuration" for all extensions/skins.
• 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:
  • Dealing with mutually excluding extensions (like Semantic / Cargo, Google Analytics / Matomo): extensions can be part of the distribution, but they are not activated
• Decision making and responsiblities
  • Release Board / Sunflower Consortium: Who will attend?
• Roadmap?
  • First release in February 2020?