Extension:Wikibase

Wikibase is a collection of software (applications and libraries) for creating, managing and sharing structured data.

This page specifically talks about the Wikibase MediaWiki extension.

Just installing the MediaWiki extension will not provide you with other elements of the Wikibase software toolbox, such as a query service, quickstatements etc.

The Wikibase MediaWiki extension receives continuous updates as it is deployed on Wikimedia hosted sites via the normal REL_ branches, tags and downloads.

Wikimedia Germany also makes regular releases of this extension as part of Wikibase/Suite, in the form of OCI (Docker) container images.

• Download and move the extracted Wikibase folder to your extensions/ directory.
  Developers and code contributors should install the extension from Git instead, using:

  cdextensions/
  gitclone--recurse-submoduleshttps://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase
  

• Only when installing from Git, run Composer to install PHP dependencies, by issuing composer install --no-dev in the extension directory. (See T173141 for potential complications.)
• Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:

  # Load Wikibase Repository
  wfLoadExtension( 'WikibaseRepository', "$IP/extensions/Wikibase/extension-repo.json" );
  require_once "$IP/extensions/Wikibase/repo/ExampleSettings.php";
  # Load Wikibase Client
  wfLoadExtension( 'WikibaseClient', "$IP/extensions/Wikibase/extension-client.json" );
  require_once "$IP/extensions/Wikibase/client/ExampleSettings.php";
  

• Run the update script which will automatically create the necessary database tables that this extension needs.
• Yes Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

You can find more advanced, but not necessarily up to date configuration below:

• Wikibase/Installation
• Wikibase/Installation/Advanced_configuration
• Wikibase/Configuration
• Wikibase/Programmer's_guide_to_Wikibase

• Stable extensions
• Database extensions
• Extensions with no license specified
• Extensions in Wikimedia version control
• All extensions
• Extensions requiring Composer with git
• Extensions used on Wikimedia

• Extensions without an image
• Extensions without a compatibility policy
• Extensions without MediaWiki version
• Extensions not in ExtensionJson