One of the rules I’ve always used when proving support is don’t tell me how you want to do something. Tell me the goal, and we can get a solution. The method you are trying to use may or may not be optimal.
On Wed, Dec 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM Brian Wolff <[email protected]> wrote: > Generally speaking, calling the action api externally is strongly > discouraged. Typically there is a backend function that is prefered instead. > > Whether that is actually true in your case depends on what you are doing. > Whether or not your case would be an acceptable exception to the general > rule would depend on the specifics of what you are doing and if there > really is no other reasonable option. > > -- > Brian/bawolff > > > On Wednesday, 17 December 2025, יגאל חיטרון <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Well, I started to think, after reading a lot of documentation and a lot >> of gerrit code, that my previous knowledge was wrong, and I have no choice >> but calling API from inside Mediawiki php, despite the words in Mediawiki >> developers guide "If you use an API call in Mediawiki php code, you're >> doing something wrong." Looks like I have no other choice. If nobody here >> says I can't do this, I'll start to write. Thank you. >> Igal >> >> >> >> <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> >> Virus-free.www.avg.com >> <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> >> <#m_6372061225327250602_m_1407805277756859967_DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> >> >> בתאריך יום ד׳, 17 בדצמ׳ 2025 ב-19:21 מאת יגאל חיטרון < >> [email protected]>: >> >>> Thanks, but I'm not so sure. I already saw this line. The API returns >>> something with more than 10000 lines. >>> https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=sitematrix&format=json&smsiteprop=url%7Cdbname%7Ccode%7Csitename%7Clang&formatversion=2. >>> I wanted just to call the API from PHP, until read in developers guide "If >>> you call API you're doing something wrong". >>> Igal >>> >>> בתאריך יום ד׳, 17 בדצמ׳ 2025, 19:16, מאת Brian Wolff <[email protected] >>> >: >>> >>>> It should be defined at >>>> https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/operations/mediawiki-config/+/df0f99e231a682f63f82e4b4a00ecce52bd22ed9/wmf-config/CommonSettings.php#1324 >>>> . As far as i can tell its not set dynamiclly so should have the same value >>>> at all wikimedia wikis. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Bawolff >>>> >>>> On Wednesday, 17 December 2025, יגאל חיטרון <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I've made a Gerrit change for a Phabricator task that uses the >>>>> $wgSiteMatrixSites variable, which is created at runtime. How can I view >>>>> its value on Meta? >>>>> >>>>> The issue is that this variable seems to have a different structure on >>>>> each site, depending on the available data. I’ve written traversal code >>>>> designed to handle any possible structure, but I can’t confirm if it works >>>>> correctly for Meta. >>>>> >>>>> If I could get the Meta value—or even just the first few pages—it >>>>> would be very helpful. >>>>> >>>>> Thank you in advance. >>>>> Igal (User:Ikhitron) >>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wikitech-l mailing list -- [email protected] >>>> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >>>> >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikitech-l.lists.wikimedia.org/ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikitech-l.lists.wikimedia.org/
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