Krinkle wrote:
- Configure it in a special way so that one can use the same code for
any wiki (ie. a $lang and $family variable of some kind)
The general idea seems fine. My only comment about this proposal is that the lang/family combination is horrific and should never, ever be used. It ends up requiring abominations such as lang=commons or lang=strategy, which is completely nonsensical and completely avoidable. It also presents problems in URLs when parameters such &lang=en get incorrectly auto-corrected by bad programs/scripts/applications into ⟨.
Wikimedia separates its wikis by database name. Please use "db", "wiki", or "site" (containing either the DB name or the URL) instead of family/language hackery.
MZMcBride