Hay's wiki tools

Source code for all of my wiki tools

Setup

• Create a config.php file (use config-sample.php as an example) in the lib directory.
  • If you plan on using docker-compose you can require_once __DIR__ . '/../.docker-compose/config.php';, which defines many things automatically.
• Do a composer install in the lib/ directory. For this you need Composer.
• Do a bower install in the root directory. For this you need Bower npm install -g bower.
• Some tools (like VizQuery, or Depictor) need an npm install or composer install in their root as well.
  • VizQuery also needs a 'npm run build' to build the bundle.

Setting up your own OAuth consumer for Depictor

Here are some OAuth consumer references to help you during setup: Depictor production on Commons, Addshores local development on meta.

You can setup your own local development consumer by following these steps:

• Navigate to an OAuth setup page:
  • For Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:OAuthConsumerRegistration/propose
  • For Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:OAuthConsumerRegistration/propose
• Select Propose an OAuth 1.0a consumer.
• For development, use a name such as <username>-local-dev, or <username>-depictor-dev.
• For the callback URL
  • You can use something such as http://localhost, choosing to point requests to the correct location when they appear in your browser
  • Hardcode something like http://localhost:4080/depictor/index.php, which should work with the default configured docker-compose setup
• Applicable projects: Commons must be selected
• Request:
  • High-volume (bot) access
  • Edit existing pages

You will then be provided a key and secret that you need to define in OAUTH_DEPICTOR in your config.php file.

Running it (Docker)

• Run docker-compose up -d to start the containers.
• Navigate to http://localhost:4080/ to see the tools.

Running it (Classic)

• Get a webserver with PHP, and host the needed files
• Configure the config.php file to reflect where these files will be served
• Setup MySQL, inclusing creating the tables you can find in various .sql files

Remarks

• To generate the props.html file that is used in the Wikidata Property browser, either:
  • Run the get-wikidata-props.py script located in etc/wikidata-props
  • Or if you're lazy simply download it from the live site: http://tools.wmflabs.org/hay/propbrowse/props.html

License

All code is licensed under the terms of the MIT / X11 license.

Credits

Some of this stuff was written for my work as Wikipedian in Residence at the Dutch National Library and National Archive.