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| Mar 18 2021, 21:22 |
As discussed today in #miraheze-sre, it seems that it would be a good idea if we tried to set up SMW. Even though in the past it was said that it would not be possible for us to set it up, that view no longer seems correct and we should try to implement it and make it accessible to wikis that want it.
An interesting first use case suggested by @Southparkfan was to create a CMDB of our infrastructure.
| R9 MediaWiki configuration | |||
| R9:df7f90536556 Add SemanticMediaWiki to ManageWikiExtensions (#4599) | |||
| R9:31ae7c4d8b7b Enable SemanticMediaWiki on smwwikibeta (#4593) | |||
I see a ton of deprecated stuff in use in the extension, I don't know how much it would effect logs especially.
Update: I've reviewed about 50% of the extension now. So far, all looks good. But like I mentioned above, alot of deprecated MediaWiki functions are still in use.
As one of my final acts as reviewer and system administrator for the time being, I'm approving this extension for installation as I finished the review yesterday.
So we don't complicate things too much and have a too large workload to work with, I suggest this is attempted after the 1.36 upgrade.
Temporarily moving to low priority as this is waiting on T7117 and will not be looked into until then.
Unfortunately this is currently incompatible with 1.36.0. If it becomes compatible this can be reopened and looked into further.
Upon further looking and discussion in #miraheze-offtopic with @Lakelimbo, this probably does support 1.37, and even shows some desire/attempt at supporting 1.38 (indicated by https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/commit/d2d941d). If SRE agree, I can install the extension submodule in miraheze/mediawiki, and configure it only on test101 for now to allow for extensive testing first. After test101 testing is done, my recommendation would be to not even add this extension to ManageWiki at all (as it would be difficult anyways) but rather a configuration file (like Wikibase.php) in mw-config allowing for configuration and enabling of the extension per-request only. This would allow for us to track usage and performance more easily. Wider rollout could then be considered in the future.
However, this should be low priority at the moment and other issues are more important right now.
Installation steps from what I can tell (some of this is undocumented, or at least I didn't see documentation, as it is meant to run update.php, but the following should work without that looking at source directly)
Just to note: I would like to begin work on this in a week or two. Although it's currently blocked on us fixing session issues on betaheze, and also setting up the CreateWiki cluster for betaheze, as I will then create a SMW test wiki for testing this (semantic.betaheze.org or something) due to the complexity of this.
Count me in on this deal, seeing how Referata (the original SMW hotspot) has been flickering on and off life support since early 2019's hacking incident. (At this writing, it's been offline for the time being since last Thursday; I'll contact Yaron Koren if the holdup persists.) And seeing how much of an SMW advocate I've long been thanks to that host...
Still, DPL3 has stood in well enough on my wiki, albeit with a slew of recent upstream issues (reported by me!) yet to be resolved--particularly regarding Unicode support.
https://semantic-mediawiki.betaheze.org created for testing this. The extension has also now been installed, but not enabled anywhere. I will begin testing shortly.
Unfortunately I'm currently not around. If I return I will continue to work on this. I'm not sure when that would be if I do though.
I hope to have this deployed within the next week or two. Of course it'll still have some limitations, and will need to be monitored on wikis that it's enabled on, and it'll have to be manually requested to Stewards to enable it, if its added to ManageWikiExtensions, or SRE if its not. Though it looks to be able to be in ManageWikiExtensions so probably will be.