Extension:SiteMatrix

**MediaWiki extensions manual**
SiteMatrix; Release status: stable
Implementation	Special page, API
Description	adds a special page with a matrix of all Wikimedia sites
Author(s)	Tim Starling, Brooke Vibber, Victor Vasiliev, Alexandre Emsenhuber
Latest version	1.4.0 (2016-07-22)
MediaWiki	>= 1.43
License	GNU General Public License 2.0 or later
Download	Download extension ; Git [?]: Download Git master; browse repository (GitHub); commit history; repository contributors (GitHub); code review;
Example	Special:SiteMatrix
	Parameters $wgSiteMatrixSites; $wgSiteMatrixFishbowlSites; $wgSiteMatrixFile; $wgSiteMatrixClosedSites; $wgSiteMatrixPrivateSites;
	Hooks used APIQuerySiteInfoGeneralInfo; MagicWordwgVariableIDs; ParserGetVariableValueSwitch;
Quarterly downloads	1 (Ranked 133rd)
Public wikis using	897 (Ranked 272nd)
	Translate the SiteMatrix extension if it is available at translatewiki.net
Issues	Open tasks · Report a bug

This extension is made for Wikimedia wikis. It does work for other wikis, but note that the extension contains Wikimedia-specific text.

The SiteMatrix extension adds a special page with a matrix of all sites of the Wikimedia Foundation. First a table of all normal language wikis, with blue links for existing wikis and red links for non-existing wikis. Below a list of other special projects (like Meta, Commons, Wikimania, ...), mostly the sites like *.wikimedia.org. It also adds a NUMBEROFWIKIS parserfunction which shows the total number of wikis^[1].

Installation

Download and move the extracted SiteMatrix folder to your extensions/ directory.
Developers and code contributors should install the extension from Git instead, using:cd extensions/ git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/SiteMatrix
Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:
```
wfLoadExtension( 'SiteMatrix' );
```
Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

Configuration

There are some variables that you need to change:

$wgSiteMatrixFile - The path to a list of language codes recognised by MediaWiki (example).
$wgSiteMatrixPrivateSites - The path to a list of wiki databases that are private (optional)
$wgSiteMatrixFishbowlSites - The path to a list of wiki databases that are public, but only logged in users can edit. (optional)
$wgSiteMatrixClosedSites - The path of a list of wiki databases that "closed" (optional)

You would also need to customise $wgSiteMatrixSites to list the different wikis in your own wikifarm. To add a new site, follow the template in extension.json as a guide (but be sure to convert the syntax to PHP). As this has been removed for better compatibility, use the code below as a reference:

	"wiki": {
		"name": "Wikipedia",
		"host": "www.wikipedia.org",
		"prefix": "w"
	},
	"wiktionary": {
		"name": "Wiktionary",
		"host": "www.wiktionary.org",
		"prefix": "wikt"
	}

Additional requirements

To ensure that the extension works correctly to your needs, there are a few dependencies to this extension:

$wgLocalDatabases - To tell the extension all the wiki databases that exist in your wikifarm.
$wgConf - To feed the extension with the correct links to the different wikis in your wikifarm.

API

This extension adds an API module that provides the same information as Special:SiteMatrix: a set of language groups plus special wikis.

The following documentation is the output of Special:ApiHelp/sitematrix, automatically generated by the pre-release version of MediaWiki that is running on this site (MediaWiki.org).

action=sitematrix (sm)

(main | sitematrix)

This module requires read rights.
Source: SiteMatrix
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Get Wikimedia sites list.

The code (technically dbname/wikiid) is either the language code + project code for content projects or the subdomain + main domain for all the others.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Sitematrix

Specific parameters:

Other general parameters are available.

smtype

Filter the Site Matrix by type:

special: One off and multilingual Wikimedia projects.
language: Wikimedia projects under this language code.

Values (separate with | or alternative): language, special

Default: special|language

smstate

Filter the Site Matrix by wiki state.

Values (separate with | or alternative): all, closed, fishbowl, nonglobal, private

Default: all

smlangprop

Which information about a language to return.

Values (separate with | or alternative): code, dir, localname, name, site

Default: code|name|site|dir|localname

smsiteprop

Which information about a site to return.

Values (separate with | or alternative): code, dbname, lang, sitename, url

Default: url|dbname|code|sitename

smlimit

Maximum number of results.

Type: integer or max

The value must be between 1 and 5,000.

Default: 5000

smcontinue

When more results are available, use this to continue. More detailed information on how to continue queries can be found on mediawiki.org.

Example:

Show the site matrix: api.php?action=sitematrix [open in sandbox]

More examples

Show site matrix (only parts are shown here)

api.php?action=sitematrix&formatversion=2 [try in ApiSandbox]

Result

{
    "sitematrix": {
        "count": 892,
        "0": {
            "code": "aa",
            "name": "Qafár af",
            "site": [
                {
                    "url": "https://aa.wikipedia.org",
                    "dbname": "aawiki",
                    "code": "wiki",
                    "sitename": "Wikipedia",
                    "closed": ""
                },
                {
                    "url": "https://aa.wiktionary.org",
                    "dbname": "aawiktionary",
                    "code": "wiktionary",
                    "sitename": "Wiktionary",
                    "closed": ""
                },
                {
                    "url": "https://aa.wikibooks.org",
                    "dbname": "aawikibooks",
                    "code": "wikibooks",
                    "sitename": "Wikibooks",
                    "closed": ""
                }
            ],
            "localname": "Afar"
        },
        "1": {
            "code": "ab",
            "name": "Аҧсшәа",
            "site": [
                {
                    "url": "https://ab.wikipedia.org",
                    "dbname": "abwiki",
                    "code": "wiki",
                    "sitename": "Авикипедиа"
                },
                {
                    "url": "https://ab.wiktionary.org",
                    "dbname": "abwiktionary",
                    "code": "wiktionary",
                    "sitename": "Wiktionary",
                    "closed": ""
                }
            ],
            "localname": "Abkhazian"
        },
        ...CUT...
        "290": {
            "code": "zu",
            "name": "isiZulu",
            "site": [
                {
                    "url": "https://zu.wikipedia.org",
                    "dbname": "zuwiki",
                    "code": "wiki",
                    "sitename": "Wikipedia"
                },
                {
                    "url": "https://zu.wiktionary.org",
                    "dbname": "zuwiktionary",
                    "code": "wiktionary",
                    "sitename": "Wiktionary"
                },
                {
                    "url": "https://zu.wikibooks.org",
                    "dbname": "zuwikibooks",
                    "code": "wikibooks",
                    "sitename": "Wikibooks",
                    "closed": ""
                }
            ],
            "localname": "Zulu"
        },
        "specials": [
            {
                "url": "https://advisory.wikimedia.org",
                "dbname": "advisorywiki",
                "code": "advisory",
                "sitename": "Advisory Board",
                "closed": ""
            },
            {
                "url": "https://ar.wikimedia.org",
                "dbname": "arwikimedia",
                "code": "arwikimedia",
                "sitename": "Wikimedia Argentina"
            },
            {
                "url": "https://arbcom-de.wikipedia.org",
                "dbname": "arbcom_dewiki",
                "code": "arbcom-de",
                "sitename": "Arbitration Committee",
                "private": ""
            },
            ...CUT...
            {
                "url": "https://login.wikimedia.org",
                "dbname": "loginwiki",
                "code": "login",
                "sitename": "Wikimedia Login Wiki"
            },
            {
                "url": "https://www.mediawiki.org",
                "dbname": "mediawikiwiki",
                "code": "mediawiki",
                "sitename": "MediaWiki"
            },
            {
                "url": "https://meta.wikimedia.org",
                "dbname": "metawiki",
                "code": "meta",
                "sitename": "Meta"
            },
            ...CUT...
            {
                "url": "https://zero.wikimedia.org",
                "dbname": "zerowiki",
                "code": "zero",
                "sitename": "Wikipedia",
                "private": ""
            }
        ]
    }
}

SiteMatrix Release status: stable
Implementation	Special page , API
Description	adds a special page with a matrix of all Wikimedia sites
Author(s)	Tim Starling, Brooke Vibber, Victor Vasiliev, Alexandre Emsenhuber
Latest version	1.4.0 (2016-07-22)
MediaWiki	>= 1.43
License	GNU General Public License 2.0 or later
Download	Download extension Git ^[?]: Download Git master browse repository (GitHub) commit history repository contributors (GitHub) code review
Example	Special:SiteMatrix
Parameters $wgSiteMatrixSites $wgSiteMatrixFishbowlSites $wgSiteMatrixFile $wgSiteMatrixClosedSites $wgSiteMatrixPrivateSites
Hooks used APIQuerySiteInfoGeneralInfo MagicWordwgVariableIDs ParserGetVariableValueSwitch
Quarterly downloads	1 (Ranked 133^rd)
Public wikis using	897 (Ranked 272^nd)
Translate the SiteMatrix extension if it is available at translatewiki.net
Issues	Open tasks · Report a bug