Install WikibaseCirrusSearch on the wiki

[1ec5]

Sysadmin

• [X] I am a wiki sysadmin

Extension name

WikibaseCirrusSearch

Extension website on medaiwiki.org

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikibaseCirrusSearch

Minimum mediawiki version

1.33+

Supported

• [X] The wiki extension is listed as release status: stable
• [X] The extension is used on one or more Wikimedia projects
• [X] The extension has versioned releases for the version of Mediawiki used by the OSMF, and for the latest version of Mediawiki

Purpose

The CirrusSearch and Wikibase extensions are both installed but don’t know anything about each other. WikibaseCirrusSearch is the glue between them, allowing users to search for data items by statements and descriptions using a few additional search operators. It would restore some of the functionality that we lost when Sophox went belly-up (Sophox/sophox#31), but with a syntax that’s easier to learn than SPARQL.

See [this proposal](https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Special:PermanentLink/2549798#Install_the_WikibaseCirrusSearch_extension) for the full rationale and examples. So far, there has been relatively little response, just a modicum of support and no explicit opposition.

Special install instructions

Releases are available for MediaWiki [1.39](https://packagist.org/packages/wikibase/cirrussearch#dev-REL1_39) and [1.40](https://packagist.org/packages/wikibase/cirrussearch#dev-REL1_40).

[maro-21]

I support installing this extension - it will help to find missing translations and will help and speed up translations.

Discussion on Wiki: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Wiki&oldid=2581889#Install_the_WikibaseCirrusSearch_extension