Re: Get a configuration variable at runtime

Il giorno ven 19 dic 2025 alle ore 04:15 Brian Wolff <[email protected]> ha
scritto:

> > This is a very obscure corner of MediaWiki, it took me a while to get
> this working. I'm not even sure what is the division of responsibility
> between WikiMap and SiteLookup.
>
> I think WikiMap was first. Site was added later for wikidata without much
> consideration for what came before. I think the difference was that Site
> was more tied to the Site DB table and WikiMap is more based around
> $wgConf. In any case, i suspect the two classes should be merged in theory
> as both do basically the same thing.


Indeed, there's a lot of confusion in the area that has bitten me multiple
times. Paired with the fact that "wiki farm" isn't really a true core
concept, but rather something with ad-hoc implementations (like $wgConf)
that provides little cross-wiki functionality as Bartosz said. The main
task about unifying what we have is
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113034, which links to and is linked
from multiple others. And for namespaces in particular there's
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226667.

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