Project Canasta/Infrastructure development

The first section (How to manage what and why) is automatically injected into a new MediaWiki instance as page "Manage this MediaWiki instance" by means of https://github.com/dataspects/mediawiki-manager/blob/main/inject-manage-page-from-mediawiki.org.sh.

Concepts shown here are tentative and subject to scrutiny by pertinent specialists for security, performance and scalability.

How to manage what and why

All aspects of your MediaWiki instance are managed (scripted if possible, manually if necessary) at one or multiple of these locations:
(assuming git clone https://github.com/dataspects/mediawiki-manager.git myMediaWikiInstance)

• Dockerfile(s)
• myMediaWikiInstance/docker-compose.yml
  • environment:
  • volumes:
• .env files
• myMediaWikiInstance/mediawiki_root/w/AfterSettings.php
• myMediaWikiInstance/mediawiki_root/w/composer.json

Aspect	Category	Location	Reasons	Steps
Increase upload limit	Infrastructure	AfterSettings.php		Add the following lines to mediawiki_root/w/AfterSettings.php: ini_set( 'post_max_size', '50M' ); ini_set( 'upload_max_filesize', '50M' );

Help: general edit instructions (transcluded into instructions)

Edit Aftersettings.php

Add the following lines to mediawiki_root/w/AfterSettings.php: