I'll see what I can do about the config options, definitely. Are there any other options that we need besides namespace names?

API sandbox link to retrieve normalized namespaces:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=query&meta=siteinfo&format=json&siprop=namespaces|namespacealiases|specialpagealiases

The actual GET request URL (displayed in the sandbox at the bottom after executing the sample query):

https://en.wikipedia.org//w/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&format=json&siprop=namespaces|namespacealiases|specialpagealiases

Oh, fun- my vague memory that image / file options and magic words are localized too turned out to be true:

Look for 'img_' in

https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&format=json&siprop=general%7Cnamespaces%7Cnamespacealiases%7Cspecialpagealiases%7Cmagicwords%7Cinterwikimap%7Cdbrepllag%7Cstatistics%7Cusergroups%7Cextensions%7Cfileextensions%7Crightsinfo%7Clanguages%7Cskins%7Cextensiontags%7Cfunctionhooks%7Cshowhooks%7Cvariables

That output has more interesting things about registered extensions, parser functions etc- probably a good idea to simply wrap the entire JSON object with a WikiConfig object which provides convenient accessor methods for the info we need. That way we would only need to update those accessors if the underlying JSON structure changes.

First attempt at some progress: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/42197

The patch is now updated (rebased), and has addressed most of the issues raised in review.

Some work done in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/42798

More steps taken in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/43972

The next step is magic words, which could take rather a bit of work.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/44353

That patch is a bit of work on using magic words from the remote wiki config. It's still WIP, but the feature is coming!

This is now pretty far along and used in production. Please report further issues separately.

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