MediaWiki extension that adds support for local media files to Wikibase via a new data type.
Professional.Wiki created and maintains Wikibase Local Media. We provide Wikibase hosting, Wikibase development and Wikibase consulting.
Rhizome commissioned and funded initial development of the extension. Wikibase Local Media is an open source project and contributions are welcome!
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See the release notes for more information on the different versions of this extension.
First install MediaWiki and Wikibase Repository.
Using Composer (option 1/2)
The recommended way to install Wikibase Local Media is using Composer with MediaWiki's built-in support for Composer.
On the commandline, go to your wikis root directory. Then run these two commands:
COMPOSER=composer.local.json composer require --no-update professional-wiki/wikibase-local-media:*
composer update professional-wiki/wikibase-local-media --no-dev -o
Manual download (option 2/2)
You can also install the extension via git clone or download. Place the WikibaseLocalMedia
directory into extensions
.
Enabling the extension
Then enable the extension by adding the following to the bottom of your wikis LocalSettings.php
file:
wfLoadExtension( 'WikibaseLocalMedia' );
You can verify the extension was enabled successfully by opening your wikis Special:Version page in your browser.
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php tests/phpunit/phpunit.php extensions/WikibaseLocalMedia/tests/
index.php?title=Special%3AJavaScriptTest&filter=jquery.ui.mediasuggester
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