The bugalore

This was my first time backing up and setting up a new MediaWiki (-vagrant) instance from scratch so I decided to document it in the hope that future me might find it useful. We (teams at Wikimedia) often use MediaWiki-Vagrant instances on Labs, err, Cloud VPS to test and demonstrate our projects. It’s also pretty handy to be able to use it when one’s local dev environment is out of order (way more common than you’d think).

What the heck is eventlogging? Eventlogging is a MediaWiki extension which lets us log events such as how users interact with a certain feature (client-side logging) or capturing the state of a system (user, permissions etc.) when a certain event happens (server-side logging). There are 3 different parts to eventlogging an event. The schema, the code and the log data. I won’t be going into the details of that because there’s a detailed guide for it.