The answer to both of you. The extension GlobalWatchlist needs to know for every wikisite in a wikifarm, if it's LTR or RTL. This is because the Special Page shows many sections, each from different wiki, on this wiki's language. So, we need a function, that gets 'en.wikipedia.org' as a parameter and returns 'ltr'. For now, there is a hardcoded list of rtl language codes there, as regex, which for my sake is worse that using API, just IMHO. It was always a bad solution, but when I implemented it years ago, we didn't know other choice. Now I'm aware of the SiteMatrix extension, which evaluates this mapping on runtime, and I can use the API call to retrieve the relevant information. I looked a lot for a way to avoid it. I think I found a way to get a direction from the language code, but I still can't get the language code from the URL. I can guess it from ' en.wikipedia.org', but not from 'commons.wikimedia.org', and not from ' abcdefgh.catalyst.wmcloud.org'. So, as for now, I don't see another way except for the API call. Igal https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T412505
בתאריך יום ה׳, 18 בדצמ׳ 2025, 00:30, מאת John <[email protected]>: > 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_-1276708365409787417_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/ > > _______________________________________________ > 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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