Extension semantic mediawiki

From MediaWiki extension testing

Installation testing of the extention Semantic MediaWiki.

Not tested on the virtal server (Clean machine).

• Source extension : allready availeble dir : web/extensions/SemanticMediaWiki
• Installation documentation and Using documentation : http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki
• Extension testcase  :

Contents 1 Used resources while testing 2 Changed enviroment 3 Other requirements 4 Testing documentation 4.1 Be aware 5 Check 6 Result testing

Used resources while testing

• MediaWiki version : 1.13alpha-wikidev (custom)
• PHP version : 5.2.5-3+lenny1 (apache2handler)
• MySQL version : 5.0.51a-6

Changed enviroment

Documented change to the MediaWiki database structure :

Setting up table `smw_relations` ...
   ... new table created
Setting up table `smw_attributes` ...
   ... new table created
Setting up table `smw_longstrings` ...
   ... new table created
Setting up table `smw_nary` ...
   ... new table created
Setting up table `smw_nary_relations` ...
   ... new table created
Setting up table `smw_nary_attributes` ...
   ... new table created
Setting up table `smw_nary_longstrings` ...
   ... new table created
Setting up table `smw_specialprops` ...
   ... new table created
Setting up table `smw_subprops` ...
   ... new table created
Database initialised successfully.

Other requirements

Preparation :

• Semantic MediaWiki does create language specific namespace. Setup the language code first. The namespace can not be changed later.
• Semantic MediaWiki does create new database table. A normal user does not have right to do so. First change in LocalSettings.php (use your own root password) :

$wgDBuser           = "root";
$wgDBpassword       = "mypassword";

• Go in the wiki, to the admin special page, linked from the special pages admin section
• hit "create tables" You receive the message upbove of the created tables.
• change user/pass back to the less powerful one normally used

Testing documentation

• Name extension software developer :
• Name extension documentation writer : User:Bernard
• Name of extension tester :
• Date tested : --Bernard 16:45, 4 December 2008 (CET)
• Extension version : unknown

Be aware

When installing a example page can be added. If installation does not go well, you can make some modifications. But even if everything is perfect the example page does not displays correctly. Delete the content of the example page, save the page, edit the page again past the deleted content and save again. It seems like you have done nothing. But creating a new (identical) content is the trigger to start SMW and display the desired content. Confusing.

Check

Using the tool Wikiation check extension isolation

Check isolation MediaWiki core

No info

Check isolation database structure

No info

Result testing

The extension tester may return here the result of testing.