Sunflower MediaWiki
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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:
- To promote the awareness and distribution of MediaWiki, extensions, bundles, communities and service providers.
- Create a collaborative project for third-party users and developers (non-profit and for-profit) to improve stability:
- Organizing the maintenance of the included extensions
- Sharpening awareness of the basic functions with which new functions must cooperate
- Providing a basis for the technical developments of various projects: Meza, Semantic MediaWiki, BlueSpice MediaWiki, Language Bundle and many more
- 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 | MWStake | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Extensions | |||||
| Arrays | no | ? | |||
| Auth_remoteuser | yes | yes | |||
| Cargo | yes | Yaron Koren / WikiWorks | no | ||
| CategoryTree | yes | bundled with MW | |||
| CirrusSearch | no | ||||
| Cite | no | ||||
| CiteThisPage | yes | ||||
| CodeEditor | yes | yes | necessary for code edits within the VisualEditor | ||
| CommentStreams | yes | yes | |||
| ConfirmAccount | yes | yes | |||
| ConfirmEdit | yes | yes | |||
| DataTransfer | yes | Yaron Koren | yes | ||
| DisplayTitle | yes | yes | |||
| DynamicPageList | yes | no | DynamicPageList3? | ||
| Echo | yes? | no | |||
| EmailAuthorization | yes | EmailAuth? | |||
| ExternalData | no | ||||
| FlaggedRevs | yes | no | |||
| Gadgets | no | ||||
| googleAnalytics | yes | ||||
| GraphViz | yes | ||||
| HeaderTabs | yes | ||||
| HitCounter | yes | ||||
| ImageMap | yes | ||||
| InputBox | yes | ||||
| Interwiki | yes | ||||
| JSBreadCrumbs | yes | ||||
| LDAPAuthentication2 | yes | ||||
| LDAPAuthorization | yes | ||||
| LDAPGroups | yes | ||||
| LDAPProvider | yes | ||||
| LDAPUserInfo | yes | ||||
| LocalisationUpdate | no | ||||
| Lockdown | yes | ||||
| Maps | no | ||||
| Math | no | ||||
| Mermaid | |||||
| Mpdf | |||||
| MsCalendar | |||||
| MsUpload | |||||
| MultimediaViewer | yes | Wikimedia Foundation | no | ||
| 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 | no | |
| SemanticResultFormats | no | ||||
| SemanticScribunto | no | ||||
| SimpleSAMLphp | |||||
| SpamBlacklist | |||||
| SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi | |||||
| Tabs | |||||
| TemplateData | |||||
| TemplateStyles | |||||
| TextExtracts | |||||
| TitleBlacklist | |||||
| TitleIcon | |||||
| UploadWizard | |||||
| UrlGetParameters | |||||
| UserFunctions | |||||
| UserMerge | |||||
| Variables | |||||
| VisualEditor | yes | Wikimedia Foundation | yes | no | |
| Widgets | no | Authors: Sergey Chernyshev, Yaron Koren | no | Compatible with MW 1.30+ but last version from 8/2017 | |
| WikiEditor | yes | WMF (Authors: Trevor Parscal, Roan Kattouw) | yes | no | |
| YouTube | yes? | Author: Przemek Piotrowski | Last version from 10/2018, compatible with MW 1.33+ | ||
| Skins | |||||
| MonoBook | yes | Wikimedia Foundation | no | Should this historic skin really be distributed? | |
| Timeless | yes | Autors: Isarra | no | ||
| Vector | yes | Wikimedia Foundation | yes | no | |
| Chameleon 2.0 | yes | Stephan Gambke | no | ||
| Erudite | no | Authors: Nick White, Matt Wiebe and Colin Andrew Ferm | no | Not shure, if we should distribute this skin (rh) | |
| Foreground | no | Authors: Garrick van Buren, Jamie Thingelstad, Tom Hutchison | no | last release: 03/2019 | |
| Metrolook | yes? | Authors: immewnity, Paladox, Craig Davison, lagleki | no |
Technical details
- The distribution comes with a "best practice default configuration" for all extensions/skins.
- The distribution is build using
composerand 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?