This document https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/Notes/Change_propagation describes how change propagation works, but not how to set it up (via a cronjob apparently?)
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| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T241215 Improve Wikibase lower and mid level documentation | |||
| Resolved | None | T89175 [Task] Create documentation on how to set up change propagation |
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Just some starting points:
- Wikibase/repo/maintenance/pruneChanges.php and Wikibase/lib/maintenance/dispatchChanges.php are the scripts
- Cron jobs in production for that (and other things) are defined in https://github.com/wikimedia/operations-puppet/blob/production/manifests/misc/maintenance.pp#L190-240
- (Potentially) relevant settings: $wgWBRepoSettings['localClientDatabases'], $wgWBRepoSettings['clientDbList'], $wgWBClientSettings['changesDatabase'] and possibly more
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I guess the documentation on https://doc.wikimedia.org/Wikibase/master/php/md_docs_topics_change-propagation.html is a bit too low level.
This is probably one of the areas that needs some higher levels docs.
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By now, this system has been rewritten and (hopefully) well documented. Also, it does no longer need much setup beyond the general ability to run MediaWiki's jobs.
The main documentation: