cookiecutter-mediawiki-extension

A Cookiecutter template for MediaWiki extensions.

Features

• Comes with all features of the upstream BoilerPlate extension (only english i18n, see i18n/README.md).
• Makefile support (make help, make install, make update, make test)

Features (future)

• License support
• Tests using PHPUnit

Optional Integrations

These features can be enabled during initial project setup.

• Set the extension type
  • Parser Functions (parserhook)
  • Special Pages (specialpage)
  • Tag Extensions (not sure?! please help)
  • … and more!
• Add an example special page [[Special:HelloWorld]]
• Add an example parser hook {{#something: }}
• Integration with Gerrit (using git-review)

Constraints

• Cannot create MediaWiki skins. See cookiecutter-mediawiki-skin for that. (In theory, you can select the skin option, but it doesent do anything special for skins right now. A separate repository is better imho.)

Usage

Let's pretend you want to create a MediaWiki extension called "SomeExtension". Rather than cloning the BoilerPlate extension, and then changing every occurrence of BoilerPlate by hand, use cookiecutter to do all the work.

First, get cookiecutter. Trust me, it's awesome:

$ pip install cookiecutter

Now run it against this repo:

$ cookiecutter https://github.com/JonasGroeger/cookiecutter-mediawiki-extension.git

You'll be prompted for some questions, answer them, then it will create a custom MediaWiki extension for you.

Note: If you want to conform with all naming conventions (PHP, JS/CSS, Composer) you should watch closely when filling out the project template parameters. The default values are conforming with all conventions.

It prompts you for questions. Answer them:

$ cookiecutter https://github.com/JonasGroeger/cookiecutter-mediawiki-extension.git
Cloning into 'cookiecutter-mediawiki-extension'...
remote: Counting objects: 151, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (102/102), done.
remote: Total 151 (delta 57), reused 140 (delta 46), pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (151/151), 28.13 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (57/57), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
repo_name [ExtensionName]: SomeExtension
description [A short description of the extension.]: This will be an extension that adds a parser hook.
jscss_prefix [extensionName]: someExtension
composer_vendor_name [vendorname]: jonasgroeger
composer_package_name [some-extension]: 
version [0.1.0]: 
author_name [Your Name]: Jonas Gröger
url [https://github.com/...]: https://github.com/JonasGroeger/SomeExtension
i18n_prefix [someextension]:  
license [GPL v2]: 
Select extension_type:
1 - api
2 - antispam
3 - datavalues
4 - media
5 - parserhook
6 - semantic
7 - skin
8 - specialpage
9 - variable
10 - other
Choose from 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 [1]: 5
integration_add_example_parser_hook [y]: y
integration_add_example_special_page [y]: y
integration_add_gerrit [y]: y

Enter the project and take a look around:

$ cd SomeExtension/
$ ls

Create a GitHub repo and push it there:

$ git init
$ git add .
$ git commit -m "Initial commit: MediaWiki extension SomeExtension"
$ git remote add origin git@github.com:JonasGroeger/SomeExtension.git
$ git push -u origin master

Now take a look at your repo. Don't forget to carefully look at the generated README.md. Awesome, right?

Support This Project

This project is maintained by volunteers. Support their work by contributing or spreading the word.

Not Exactly What You Want?

This is what I want. It might not be what you want. Don't worry, you have options:

Fork This

If you have differences in your preferred setup, I encourage you to fork this to create your own version. Once you have your fork working, let me know and I'll add it to a 'Similar Cookiecutter Templates' list here. It's up to you whether or not to rename your fork.

If you do rename your fork, I encourage you to submit it to the following places:

• cookiecutter so it gets listed in the README as a template.

Or Submit a Pull Request

I also accept pull requests on this, if they're small, atomic, and if they make my own project development experience better.