AdminLogs

Extensions

Confirm Edit

Confirm edit is used for the Captcha in the account creation page.
The extension files were first copied to a local extension folder.
The folder was then mounted through docker-compose.yml adding a line after Volumes :

Volumes:
- ./ConfirmEdit:/var/www/html/extensions/ConfirmEdit

Finally, the locally mounted LocalSettings.php got these extra lines

wfLoadExtensions([ 'ConfirmEdit', 'ConfirmEdit/QuestyCaptcha' ]);
$wgCaptchaQuestions = [
        'Question' => 'Response',
];
$wgCaptchaTriggers['create'] = true;

Then I restarted the service

UserMerge

Deleting user accounts can be tricky. The best solution seems to be merging accounts which is a good solution to double accounts or empty ghost accounts. For this there is a special page.

The extension couldn't be added through the following shoehorning solution. I had to copy the extension files to the docker container first.

docker cp extensions/UserMerge b3aca7519274:/var/www/html/extensions/

Then I proceeded to normal install by adding the following lines to the LocalSettings.php page mounted outside the container (through docker-compose.yml file)

wfLoadExtension( 'UserMerge' ); 
// By default nobody can use this function, enable for bureaucrat? 
$wgGroupPermissions['bureaucrat']['usermerge'] = true; 

// optional: default is array( 'sysop' ) 
$wgUserMergeProtectedGroups = array( 'groupname' );

Inside the docker container I ran the update php script afterwards, not sure if this was necessary?

docker exec -it <container> /bin/bash
php maintenance/update.php 

TO DO: check whether this line in docker-compose.yml is still useful : - ./userMerge:/var/www/html/extensions/UserMerge

Weird stuff / bugs etc

• wdqs container sometimes goes down
• query service doesn't fetch wikibase entered data
• Image from commons also don't fetch (preview is local but the actual integration to the wiki upon saving is not working)

to do

• update mediawiki