https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Interwiki_map should really have a json file behind it, and the page that displays it running a scribunto/lua module to format the table nicely...
I don't know how many direct dependancies there on that page; hopefully only really MediaWiki-extensions-WikimediaMaintenance.
https://codesearch.wmcloud.org/search/?q=Interwiki_map&files=&excludeFiles=&repos= seems to concur
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| dumpInterwiki.php: Convert to loading JSON page from meta | mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaMaintenance | master | +21 -23 |
Change #1035754 had a related patch set uploaded (by Reedy; author: Reedy):
[mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaMaintenance@master] dumpInterwiki.php: Convert to loading JSON page from meta
The interwiki map is (in theory) generated by Extension:Interwiki, which could probably be convinced to export its table as a JSON file as well. It seems like the https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/interwiki.php.txt is actually the target output, I don't see why that can't be generated as an optional export by Extension:Interwiki as well.
I think @cscott's idea is also interesting, of letting people use Special:Interwiki to manage the tools instead of an on-wiki page while keeping the export process the same. But that's beyond the scope of this ticket, and probably requires on-wiki discussion somewhere.
We made the extension specifically "read only" for WMF deployment in rEIWA94e3d449ddf6: Add global $wgInterwikiViewOnly and setup function to allow conditional adding….
I wonder if we could have a "centralised" DB table (which may have performance issues).
But yeah, out of scope for this :)
Change #1035754 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaMaintenance@master] dumpInterwiki.php: Convert to loading JSON page from meta
Keeping on radar, as I did testing and code review for this and the other stacked patches related to it.