Mediawiki installation/Version 1.23.8

MediaWiki version 1.23.8 is a long term support version.

Architecture

• see http://biowikifarm.net/meta/Mediawiki_installation#Cloning_a_new_wiki
• have a Long Term Support (LTS) Version of MediaWiki
• install extensions for a wiki version

 MW_WMF_CLONE                                        /usr/share/mw-wmf-clone
 ├ core (Git) ─────────git-archive-export───┐        /usr/share/mw-wmf-clone/core
 └ extensions (Git) ───git-archive-export─→ ) ─┐     /usr/share/mw-wmf-clone/extensions
                                            │  │
   WIKI_SOURCE_LTS (e.g. REL1_23)           │  │
   ┌ core-files (local git archive-export) ←┘  │     /usr/share/mediawiki23
   ├ extensions (mixed:                        │     /usr/share/mediawiki23/extensions
   │   svn biowikifarm, (repo: as svn-post-commit)
   │   git-archive-export)  ←──────────────────┘
   │   some svn extensions from MediaWiki            Extension:StringFunctions
   ↓   
   │ WEB_WIKI (as LTS web Wiki)
   ├─→ core-files (linked)                           /var/www/v-infoflora/d/
   └─→ extensions (linked)                           /var/www/v-infoflora/d/extensions
         composer-extensions must be dealt with      /var/www/v-infoflora/d/composer.json
         on level WEB_WIKI individually

Git short help

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 git checkout <branch>
 git checkout <tag-name>
 git checkout -b <create-new-branch>
 git branch -r|--remotes       # list all branches
 git tag -l|--list             # list all tags
 git tag -l|--list <pattern>   # list tags matching the pattern
 git archive <tag-or-branch-or-tree-ish>   # extract an archive
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