Reading/Web/Working with Vagrant

Using MediaWiki Vagrant can help speed up development by taking care of the complexities of installing various extensions.

Testing Wikidata description changes

• Enable the `wikidata` role and after a provision you will be provided with an instance of Wikidata available at http://wikidata.wiki.local.wmftest.net:8080/
• You will need to link a Wikidata article to the corresponding non-Wikidata wiki.
  • Create a new page using http://en.wiki.local.wmftest.net:8080/wiki/Wikidata test article
  • Create a new item using http://wikidata.wiki.local.wmftest.net:8080/wiki/Special:NewItem
  • Under statements on the newly created item click edit next to Wikipedia, type language en and type Wikidata test article to link the two.
  • Now visit http://en.wiki.local.wmftest.net:8080/wiki/Wikidata test article and the articles should be linked.