extends https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-docker See https://blog.programster.org/deploy-your-own-mediawiki-wiki for more informations

before all you need to be sure that docker is running :

• sudo systemctl enable docker each time that you are building a new mediawiki clone you may need to :
• delete all other container : docker rm -f $(docker ps -a -q)
• delete all the volume : docker volume rm $(docker volume ls -q)

Each mediawiki clone must be initialized as follow :

• sudo docker-compose -f docker-compose_begin.yml up
• go to http://localhost:8080/ > click on Setup Wiki
• Enter "database" as hostname / and MYSQL user name & password definied in docker-compose_begin.yml

SAVE FILE in docker dir as the fr example

An command line alternative exists ! : use the install.php script

All the extensions used in a wikipedia are generally listed into the SPecial:Version page of each wiki :

• french one : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Version

You will first need to install the interresting modules you want to integrate to your wiki as follow : https://github.com/datalogism/mediawiki_docker/blob/main/DockerFIles/Dockerfile_fr2 We generally install first basic packages for git/unzipping... We also are installing then composer for building the modules that need to be. We finnaly add right for Lua engine.

For increasing the memory capacity of the Wiki you could have to adjust the memory limit :

ini_set('memory_limit', '1024M');

All the modules need to be activated as follow :

wfLoadExtension( 'CategoryTree' );

Some modules need to configurated in the LocalSetting file :

• [Math]

$wgMathValidModes = array('source');
$wgDefaultUserOptions['math'] = 'source';
$wgMathDisableTexFilter = 'always';

• TextExtracts

# Configuration for TextExtracts which removes noisy tags
$wgExtractsRemoveClasses = array( '.metadata', 'span.coordinates', 'span.geo-multi-punct', 'span.geo-nondefault', '#coordinates', '.reflist', '.citation', '#toc', '.tocnumber', '.references', '.reference', '.noprint');

• [Scribunto]

$wgTemplateDataUseGUI = false;
$wgScribuntoDefaultEngine = 'luastandalone'; # faster but needs configuration read http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto
$wgScribuntoEngineConf['luastandalone']['errorFile'] = 'lua_error.log';

For a french wiki :

• Maping between LocalSettings.php and LocalLanguageAdapted setting in docker-compose_fr.yml

sudo docker-compose -f docker-compose_fr.yml up -d --build --force-recreate 

For accesing to the container :

sudo docker run -it --rm mediawiki_custom /bin/bash 

Some package are working on reshaped or new objects for it you may need to update de database with the following script from the container : https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Update.php

A dump could be load from the container with (14articles /sec) :

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:ImportDump.php
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Importing_XML_dumps A little wikipedia could be easily build in a day (the romanian for example), However with a large wiki like the English one the loading time of the entiere chapter very long (55 days at that rate to import the 55,000,000 pages (as of March 2022) in the English Wikipedia)

For loading a dump do :

php importDump.php --conf ../LocalSettings.php /path_to/dumpfile.xml.gz

check also the option --namespaces / --skip-to that could be usefull for monitoring the load

Could be done in a day

An alternative to the building of a complete could be to load only the modules and the template of a wiki :

> php importDump.php --conf ../LocalSettings.php --namespaces 10 /var/data/dumps/frwiki-20220620-pages-articles-multistream.xml
> php importDump.php --conf ../LocalSettings.php --namespaces 828 /var/data/dumps/frwiki-20220620-pages-articles-multistream.xml

I took a day for french wiki.

Unfortunatly by this way couldn't load wikibase depending data : https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibase_Client

http://localhost:8080/api.php?action=query&format=json&prop=extracts&titles=1545

Using the action=parse API endpoint with contentmodel=wikitext & text=wikicode parameters, the average parsing time of a page is equal to 0,17 sec by page it took almost 4 days for 4 087 249 pages.