I did a fresh install of mediawiki, page triage, ores, and echo today and got the same result I did as when I tried in my existing dev environment: the pagetriage queue stays empty.

the pagetriage queue stays empty.

Uninvited comment, going off a hunch:

• Check that Special:NewPagesFeed is indeed empty
• Create a new page
• Open the "Page Curation toolbar" (tools menu)
• Confirm that the page is marked as reviewed (green checkmark in page curation toolbar to the right)
• Click the green checkmark, click the red "Mark as unreviewed"
• Check Special:NewPagesFeed again — the page should now be in the queue

To avoid pages being automatically marked as reviewed, use a non-privileged account (or create pages logged out). Hope this helps :-)

@TheresNoTime thanks for having a look! @kostajh helped us out by looking over what we were doing and discovered that the extension currently doesn't work with sqlite, the default db backend for mediawiki docker.

So, I setup mysql for mediawiki docker based on his feedback and updated the mediawiki-docker recipe for mysql single db server
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki-Docker/Configuration_recipes/Alternative_databases#MySQL_(single_database_server)