I attempted to install Wikibase the other day and made a fun discovery. Installing it properly requires the following (12) extensions:
WikibaseClient Wikibase DataModel WikibaseLib Wikibase Repository DataValues DataTypes ValueParsers ValueView ValueValidators ValueFormatters Diff Scribunto And the following optional (2) extensions: Universal Language Selector Babel Soon it will also require at least the following (4) extensions: Ask Wikibase Query Wikibase Database Wikibase QueryEngine To fully deploy wikibase in a way that will work like wikidata, it will take at least 18 extensions, all of which are versioned differently, and are broken out in this manner to be used as libraries. What this is subtly doing is adding another dependency chain into MediaWiki: extension libraries. Since these extensions are meant to be used as libraries, other extensions will eventually do so and admins will have to worry about not only extension compatibility with MediaWiki (an already nearly impossible task), but will also need to worry about extension dependency with extension libraries. The compatibility matrix for this is going to be terrible and exacerbates one of MediaWiki's biggest problems for admins. Quite a few of these should be core functionality or if they can't properly pass review they should be removed. For legitimate library-like extensions I have no constructive alternative, but there must be some sane alternative to this. - Ryan _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
