Help:Installing from scratch

Installation of MediaWiki

1. Checkout a copy of MediaWiki
   • go into your Apache's DocumentRoot (such as "/var/www" or "C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs") and execute either:
     • if you want MediaWiki 1.18 (stable):
       • svn co http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/branches/REL1_18/phase3/ mywiki
     • or if you want the development trunk:
       • svn co http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/ mywiki
2. Configure MediaWiki the normal way [1].

Installation of Wikidata

1. Checkout a copy of the latest "Wikidata" extension
   • from the previous folder, go into mywiki/extensions/ and execute:
     • svn co http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/Wikidata
2. In order to create the tables in the database relating to Wikidata

   go to /extensions/Wikidata/Console

   run php installWikidata.php --prefix=uw --template=wikidataTemplate.sql --datasetname="OmegaWiki community"

   you can change the prefix and the datasetname to whatever you like. It has not been tested, but it should work...

Configuration of Wikidata

• Edit your LocalSettings.php and add:

require_once("$IP/extensions/Wikidata/App.php");

$wgCapitalLinks = false;

$wgExtraNamespaces = array(
        16 => 'Expression',
        17 => 'Expression_talk',
        24 => 'DefinedMeaning',
        25 => 'DefinedMeaning_talk',
);

$wdHandlerPath = "$IP/extensions/Wikidata/OmegaWiki/";
$wdHandlerClasses = array(
        24 => 'DefinedMeaning',
        16 => 'OmegaWiki',
);

• Also add the following (the numbers may vary), as suggested by the install script:

$wgDefaultClassMids = array(37);
$wgIso639_3CollectionId = 35;

• $wgDefaultClassMids should correspond to the DM number of the expression called "lexical item".

  If you edit that expression, in the Section "Class attributes", you can add annotations that will be available for all languages (by default, this is only possible for bureaucrats, see below). For example:

  - Level: SynTrans , Attribute: IPA , Type: Plain Text. Note: you have to define the word "IPA" first

  - Level: SynTrans , Attribute: etymology , Type: Translatable Text.

  - Level: SynTrans , Attribute: part of speech , Type: Option list.

  - Level: DefinedMeaning , Attribute: image , Type: Link.

Further configuration

Languages

• To add other languages
  • Use the language manager ( Special:Languages )
  • If you add a DM for that language, and add it to the "ISO 639-3 collection" with its ISO code, it will be used to translate the language name according to the interface language ( Use Special:ImportLangNames ).

User rights

Default user rights are as follows:

$wgGroupPermissions['wikidata-omega']['editwikidata-uw'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['wikidata-omega']['deletewikidata-uw'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['wikidata-copy']['wikidata-copy'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['wikidata-omega']['wikidata-copy'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['bureaucrat']['languagenames'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['bureaucrat']['addcollection'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['bureaucrat']['editClassAttributes'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['bureaucrat']['exporttsv'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['bureaucrat']['importtsv'] = true;

• 'editwikidata-uw': rights to edit the Wikidata pages and add new data. This permission can be given to anonymous users.
• 'deletewikidata-uw': rights to modify existing data, such as change a definition or remove a translation.
• 'languagenames': rights to add new languages via Special:Languages, and update the translations via Special:ImportLangNames.
• 'addcollection': rights to add a collection via Special:AddCollection.
• 'editClassAttributes': rights to add attributes to a class.