Xqt added a comment.

Why not use a dict for default sites in user-config like default_sites = {

'wikipedia': 'de' 'wikisource': 'en' 'wikidata': 'test' 'myownproject': 'klingon'

} family = 'wikipedia' mylang = None # maybe obsolete now

-family option will use the default language code except -lang option is given or there is only one langage in that project. this means

1. -family overrides config.family 2. if -lang is given, take it and raise an error if site does not exist, otherwise 3. if default_sites[family] is given, take that language code and raise an error if site does not exist, otherwise 4. take mylang (as fallback, maybe deprecated) and raise an error if site does not exist.

This means bot operators may have the choice of the default sites for each project and if not defined an error would be the right hint. But there would be no surprise which site is used anymore.

TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T71255

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