User:SPage (WMF)/ZeroPortal

From phab:T87289 "MediaWiki Developer Summit 2015: Building websites with MediaWiki + Lua"

Constraints/opportunities

• locked-down wiki
• small userbase
• use MediaWiki infrastructure

ZeroPortal uses one whitelisted page, https://zero.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ZeroPortal

• this is configured as the main page of the wiki
• this just invokes a Lua module
  • loads other templates and wikitext (that admins can edit)
  • routes to special pages

Extensions

• https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-ZeroPortal
• ZeroBanner

Configuration

• Wikimedia Zero is driven by JSON config files edited by operators
  • Lua extended to handle JSON (built-in JSON support in Lua is coming)
• JsonConfig extension for JSON configuration files in the Zero: namespace

Graphing:

• Python script uploads blobs of data to the wiki
• Graph extension to render graphs

Appearance:

• Instead of a skin, admin just modifies MediaWiki:Content.css (see it)

Performance:

• * Disable caching (small userbase).

A Special page is not cached.