Last modified: 2009-07-28 11:28:51 UTC
There are a number of configuration settings that affect things in the API e.g. $wgRCMaxAge. These should be available via the API. (I am volunteering to write a patch to add this, if I can get enough guidance about the right way to do it.)
Created attachment 6393 [details] patch to add siprop=configsettings to meta=siteinfo I only added 4 for now: $wgRateLimits, $wgRCMaxAge, $wgRightsIcon, $wgVersion. I am not sure which other ones are relevant and I wanted to avoid just adding virtually everything. Quite a few are also available indirectly through existing API modules.
At first blush, the patch looks pretty good. I wonder if it would be sensible to allow users to request specific configuration settings... In future, we'll want to integrate this with some sort of on-wiki configuration system, like Configure.
(In reply to comment #2) > I wonder if it would be sensible to allow users to request specific > configuration settings... > Considered before and decided against (I think it was even committed and reverted). (In reply to comment #1) > I only added 4 for now: $wgRateLimits, $wgRCMaxAge, $wgRightsIcon, $wgVersion. I seem to recall Brion reverted a rev of mine exposing $wgRateLimits, I'll ask him about it. $wgVersion is already exposed by siprop=general .
As Chad has pointed out, this is an obvious duplicate of bug 17027, which Brion WONTFIXed. I apologize for not noticing/remembering earlier. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 17027 ***
