User:Coops/Developing Ropewiki

Notes on developing ropewiki

Loosely structured notes about working on ropewiki.

• The site runs on MediaWiki
• An additional extension called Semantic MediaWiki provided relationships between pages (Region -> Canyon -> Condition Report)

Things about MediaWiki

The version of MediaWiki & its extensions are really old.

• Editing javascript or css in mediawiki
  • https://ropewiki.com/MediaWiki:Common.js
  • https://ropewiki.com/MediaWiki:Common.css

• To help manage the commonjs file, we built it from this source: https://github.com/RopeWiki/commonjs/

• Editing SMW query language sucks.

Things about the infra

Secrets are provided as enviroment variables.

I used docker-in-docker to run the whole ropewiki stack inside a single container.

templates

MediaWiki:Hf-nsheader-User is the User page template.