https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68605
Bug ID: 68605
Summary: Change multiwiki wikis to use the configuration of the
primary wiki by default
Product: MediaWiki-Vagrant
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: General
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected]
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Mobile Platform: ---
When I first wrote the multiwiki functionality during the Zürich hackathon, I
made a fundamental assumption that the primary reason for wanting to run
multiple wikis in a single VM would be to configure radically different
collections of extensions and configuration on each wiki. As usage of the
multiwiki core has expanded it has become apparent that this is a fundamentally
flawed assumption. It seems to be much more likely that secondary wikis are
wanted to to add functionality to the wiki farm as a whole (central auth
database, wikidata storage, common image storage) with the same extensions
available across the farm. An as yet unimplemented, but desirable, use case is
wikis for alternate default language.
The initialization provided by the multiversion system should be changed to
load the extensions and configuration of the primary wiki (as provided by
roles) as a baseline that a particular multiwiki instance can build upon as
desired. By shifting the model of a multiwiki to reconfigure and augment the
features of the base wiki, it will be easier to disentangle the features of a
given extension from the role for a given multiwiki instance.
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