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⁠🐳 MediaWiki Docker Image – Prebuilt with Full Extension Bundle

⁠Overview

This Mediawiki image provides a ready-to-use installation with a curated set of extensions pre-installed and configured.
Instead of building and configuring MediaWiki from scratch.

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⁠Key Features

• ✅ Prebuilt MediaWiki with Extensions – ships with the full MediaWiki extension bundle, including our modified MyVisualEditor.
• ✅ Ready to Run – just pull and run, no need to manually install or configure PHP extensions.
• ✅ Extensible – you can still mount volumes or add extensions if needed.
• ✅ Multi-Language Support – Configurable to spin up multiple wiki instances (currently English + French only are available) from one deployment.

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⁠Initialization Process

When the container starts, the custom entrypoint script docker-entrypoint.sh⁠ runs a one-time initialization process.

Here’s what happens under the hood:

1. Database Setup

   • Creates wiki databases and user accounts (one per configured language)
   • Imports pre-seeded SQL dumps (init-dump-en.sql, init-dump-fr.sql) More will be added soon 😉

2. Multi-Language Support

   • Reads the LANGUAGES variable from .env
   • Creates one MediaWiki instance per language

3. Admin & Bot Accounts

   • Default Admin user account will be used for the setup (username: Admin, password: admin#2025), you can simply override it at the end of the setup.
   • Creates a BotPassword account (wikiadviser-bot) with extended permissions for automation
   • Saves all credentials into MW_CREDENTIALS.txt for reuse

4. Preloading Assets & Templates

   • Imports Common.js and Common.css for each wiki
   • Loads citation templates and modules for Citoid and VisualEditor integration
   • Seeds important MediaWiki configuration pages and modules

5. One-Time Initialization

   • We use an init volume mount init-data:/data to avoid re-running init setup on restarts, remove all created volumes init-data & mw-data for a fresh restart

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⁠Usage

Our MediaWiki solution goes beyond a vanilla setup, it’s designed to run within a Docker Compose stack to ensure proper initialization and database integration, the recommended setup is with docker-compose alongside a MariaDB service.

Head over to our GitHub repo if you want to use our docker compose or build the image yourself, or maybe have a look on our Wikiadviser product 👀:

👉 Wikiadviser repository⁠