Splitting this task off of T52040#557239, we currently output the following directly into the HTML page source of MediaWiki's action=view for non-logged in users on en.wikipedia.org (with light pretty-printing):
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For logged-in users, it's this (with light pretty-printing and redaction of the tokens):
<script>(window.RLQ=window.RLQ||[]).push(function(){mw.config.set({"wgCanonicalNamespace":"", "wgCanonicalSpecialPageName":false,"wgNamespaceNumber":0,"wgPageName":"Main_Page", "wgTitle":"Main Page", "wgCurRevisionId":696846920,"wgRevisionId":696846920,"wgArticleId":15580374,"wgIsArticle":true,"wgIsRedirect":false,"wgAction":"view", "wgUserName":"MZMcBride", "wgUserGroups":["extendedconfirmed", "*", "user", "autoconfirmed"],"wgCategories":[],"wgBreakFrames":false,"wgPageContentLanguage":"en", "wgPageContentModel":"wikitext", "wgSeparatorTransformTable":["", ""],"wgDigitTransformTable":["", ""],"wgDefaultDateFormat":"dmy", "wgMonthNames":["", "January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December"],"wgMonthNamesShort":["", "Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"],"wgRelevantPageName":"Main_Page", "wgRelevantArticleId":15580374,"wgRequestId":"V48HKgpAAEUAAOoC60oAAAAA", "wgUserId":212624,"wgUserEditCount":179895,"wgUserRegistration":1117578315000,"wgUserNewMsgRevisionId":729425882,"wgIsProbablyEditable":false,"wgRestrictionEdit":["sysop"],"wgRestrictionMove":["sysop"],"wgIsMainPage":true,"wgEchoConfig":{"version":"1.11", "eventlogging":{"Echo":{"enabled":false,"revision":7731316,"client":false},"EchoMail":{"enabled":true,"revision":5467650,"client":false},"EchoInteraction":{"enabled":true,"revision":15180901,"client":true}}},"wgGlobalGroups":["global-ipblock-exempt"],"wgWikiEditorEnabledModules":{"toolbar":true,"dialogs":true,"preview":false,"publish":false},"wgBetaFeaturesFeatures":[],"wgMediaViewerOnClick":true,"wgMediaViewerEnabledByDefault":true,"wgVisualEditor":{"pageLanguageCode":"en", "pageLanguageDir":"ltr", "usePageImages":true,"usePageDescriptions":true},"wgPreferredVariant":"en", "wgRelatedArticles":null,"wgRelatedArticlesUseCirrusSearch":true,"wgRelatedArticlesOnlyUseCirrusSearch":false,"wgULSAcceptLanguageList":["en-us", "en"],"wgULSCurrentAutonym":"English", "wgFlaggedRevsParams":{"tags":{"status":{"levels":1,"quality":2,"pristine":3}}},"wgStableRevisionId":null,"wgCategoryTreePageCategoryOptions":"{\"mode\":0,\"hideprefix\":20,\"showcount\":true,\"namespaces\":false}", "wgNoticeProject":"wikipedia", "wgCentralNoticeCookiesToDelete":[],"wgCentralNoticeCategoriesUsingLegacy":["Fundraising", "fundraising"],"wgNoticeUserData":{"registration":"20050531222515"},"wgWikibaseItemId":"Q5296", "wgVisualEditorToolbarScrollOffset":0,"wgEchoInitialNotifCount":{"alert":21,"message":187},"wgEchoSeenTime":{"alert":"20160719205515", "message":"20160526121023"}});mw.loader.implement("user.options",function($,jQuery,require,module){mw.user.options.set({"visualeditor-hidebetawelcome":"1", "visualeditor-tabs":"multi-tab", "visualeditor-hidetabdialog":"1", "ccmeonemails":"1", "editfont":"monospace", "extendwatchlist":"1", "forceeditsummary":"1", "imagesize":"1", "nickname":"MZMcBride", "rclimit":"100", "rows":"17", "showhiddencats":"1", "skin":"monobook", "underline":"0", "usenewrc":"1", "watchlistdays":"30", "wllimit":"1000", "echo-subscriptions-email-edit-user-talk":1,"echo-subscriptions-web-article-linked":"1", "searchNs0":"", "gadget-ReferenceTooltips":"", "gadget-DRN-wizard":"", "gadget-charinsert":"", "cx":"0", "gadget-addsection-plus":"1", "gadget-edittop":"1", "mfWatchlistFilter":"all", "mfWatchlistView":"a-z", "pagetriage-lastuse":"20130709122306", "popups":"0", "timecorrection":"ZoneInfo|-300|America/New_York", "uls-compact-links":"0", "usecodeeditor":"0", "userjs-NewPagesFeedFilterOptions": "{ \"namespace\":\"0\", \"showunreviewed\":\"1\", \"limit\":20, \"dir\":\"newestfirst\" }", "userjs-curationtoolbar":"maximized", "userjs-gettingstarted-showtour":"0", "visualeditor-hideusered":"1", "watchlisttoken":"[...]", "wikibase-otherprojects":"0"});});mw.loader.implement("user.tokens",function ( $, jQuery, require, module ) { mw.user.tokens.set({"editToken":"[...]", "patrolToken":"[...]", "watchToken":"[...]", "csrfToken":"[...]"});/*@nomin*/; });mw.loader.load(["mediawiki.page.startup", "mediawiki.legacy.wikibits", "ext.gadget.WatchlistBase", "ext.gadget.WatchlistGreenIndicatorsMono", "ext.centralauth.centralautologin.clearcookie", "mmv.head", "ext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.init", "ext.uls.init", "ext.uls.interface", "ext.quicksurveys.init", "mw.MediaWikiPlayer.loader", "mw.PopUpMediaTransform"]);});</script>
We should reconsider whether outputting all of these user options and other site data directly into the HTML page source is the best approach.