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I've been hacking a bit this morning on the Diagnosis extension, about an old idea to make an 'installation check' sort of a page, which lists various attributes of the MediaWiki installation and draws attention to things that might be wrong.
A few other open source web applications do a similar thing (these screenshots are from my local installations of these, which are usually full of problems):
-
NextCloud -
FreshRSS -
Matomo
I'm thinking that an extension attribute array could work well for extensions to opt in to adding 'Checks', e.g. in extension.json:
"attributes": {
"MyExt": {
"Checks": [
{
"class": "MediaWiki\\Extension\\MyExt\\Check\\FoobarCheck",
"services": [
"SomeService"
]
}
]
}
},
And then each Check would implement something like this:
interface Check {
/**
* @return string HTML for the check title.
*/
public function getTitle(): string;
/**
* Quick checks are run when Special:Diagnosis is opened; others must be triggered by the user.
*/
public function isQuick(): bool;
/**
* The result of the check, containing whatever HTML should be displayed
* and a status (of success/warning/etc.) that determines the icon etc.
*/
public function getResult(): StatusValue;
}
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