On Oct 19, 2004, at 2:02 PM, Joel Wiesmann wrote:
I'm having fun hacking my local metawiki installation. Currently I'm trying to implement a calendar (I think would be something new?) as a special page. What I miss, are detailed informations about the global variables like wgOut and wgRequest. $wgOut isn't that hard, because a var_dump will show detailed informations - but unfortunately that doesn't work with $wgRequest :(. Is there _any_ more detailed documentation about the metawiki internals than the informations on meta.wikipedia.org?
The first and foremost documentation is the source code. The code of the functions, the comments in and around them, and their usage elsewhere in the code should, ideally, be relatively clear. In practice it's not always as clear as we'd like. :)
In 1.4 we've been adding more comments to produce internal API documentation via phpdoc. A probably not current copy is at http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net/mwdoc/ (select the 'MediaWiki' package to see anything of any note). Note that 1.4 isn't quite the same as 1.3 if you're working with 1.3; some things have changed.
I searched almost everywhere.. and the mailing-list archive seems not to have a search function!
Google.com provides an excellent search capability: add site:mail.wikipedia.org to your query.
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