MediaWiki-Docker/Extension/CheckUser/en

This page instructs you to install inside.

Follow the Quickstart instructions at MediaWiki-Docker page. Once MediaWiki is running and available at, then continue with instructions on this page.

All commands should be run in the directory where you installed MediaWiki. All mentioned files are also located there.

Install Composer dependencies
Add this to :

Alternatively copy

As this will include all extensions' composer.json files by default.

Run:

Modify LocalSettings.php
If not already there, add this to the end of.

Giving an account the rights to use the CheckUser extension (optional)
To be able to access the data provided by the CheckUser extension, you will need an account with the checkuser group. This can be done using the script where  is replaced with the username of an existing account you want to give the checkuser rights.

Alternatively standard installations should allow granting the checkuser rights by any bureaucrat.

Adding fake data for testing (optional)
To effectively test the CheckUser extension, you may desire to insert fake testing data to the results tables. This can be done by running the  maintenance script. You must change add  to your   file to use the script. The first argument for the script is the number of testing actions to insert, which if not specified defaults to 1000.