User:Tobias Gritschacher (WMDE)/Wikibase/Installation

=Prerequisites=

MediaWiki
Technically, Wikibase is an extension (actually two extensions) to MediaWiki, so you need to set up MediaWiki first.

Composer
The easiest way to install all all dependencies of Wikibase is using Composer. Here you can find installation instructions for Composer.

=Installation=

Meet the prerequisites
Make sure you've set up MediaWiki and installed Composer.

Get Wikibase
Download Wikibase into the extensions folder of your MediaWiki installation. There are several ways to download Wikibase.

Download from Git

 * For getting the latest version of Wikibase, do:
 * For getting a specific version of Wikibase you have to specify the branch you want to download:

Download archive

 * Instead of using Git you can alternatively download an archive with the latest version of Wikibase or choose to download a specific version of Wikibase.
 * Make sure you extract the archive to a new folder inside the extensions folder of your MediaWiki installation.