> 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. -- Brian On Thursday, 18 December 2025, Bartosz Dziewoński <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2025-12-19 00:08, Brian Wolff wrote: > >> Why cant you use the MediaWikiSite class to get a site reference, call >> ->getLanguageCode() then make a language object and use the language object >> to get the direction? >> > > Indeed, this is the best advice for this case. Just to expand on it, since > there are several non-obvious steps: > > use MediaWiki\WikiMap\WikiMap; > $services = MediaWiki\MediaWikiServices::getInstance(); > > $wikiId = WikiMap::getWikiFromUrl( 'https://en.wikipedia.org/' ); > // $wikiId is a string like 'enwiki' or false if the URL isn't known > $site = $services->getSiteLookup()->getSite( $wikiId ); > $langCode = $site->getLanguageCode(); > // $langCode is a string like 'en' or null if it's not known > $lang = $services->getLanguageFactory()->getLanguage( $langCode ); > $dir = $lang->getDir(); > // $dir is a string: 'ltr' or 'rtl' > > 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. > > Each wiki in a wiki farm knows a little bit about every other wiki, but > only a little bit. You can use these classes to look up the language code > or format links, but not much more than that. It doesn't know all of the > configuration, so if you ever need e.g. the list of namespaces on the other > wiki, you'll need to fall back to doing API requests to the 'siteinfo' API > or make up some configuration of your own. > > -- > Bartosz Dziewoński > _______________________________________________ > 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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