Manual:sites table

The sites table, introduced in MediaWiki 1.21 in May 2013, holds all the sites known to the wiki.

Numeric ID of the site. This is an auto-incrementing primary key.

Global identifier for the site, ie 'enwiktionary'

Type of the site, ie 'mediawiki'

Group of the site, ie 'wikipedia'

Source of the site data, ie 'local', 'wikidata', 'my-magical-repo'

Language code of the sites primary language.

Protocol of the site, i.e. 'http://', 'irc://', '//'.

This field is an index for lookups and is built from type specific data in site_data.

Domain of the site in reverse order, ie 'gro.ikiwaidem.www.'.

This field is an index for lookups and is built from type specific data in site_data.

Type dependent site data.

If site.tld/path/key:pageTitle should forward users to the page on the actual site, where "key" is the local identifier.

Type dependent site config. For instance if template transclusion should be allowed if it's a MediaWiki.

The sites table is shipped without data for a new MediaWiki installation.

There're two ways of populating the sites table using another wiki as a source. If you have access to the other wiki's server, you can run the exportSites.php maintenance script and import the data using the importSites.php maintenance script of your MediaWiki installation.

If you don't have access to the other wiki's server but the other MediaWiki installation has the SiteMatrix extension installed, you can use a maintenance script from the Wikibase extension (populateSitesTable.php) to import all sites from the other wiki.

If you want to add a new site into your MediaWiki's site table, you can use the maintenance script addSite.php .

Additionally, the above mentioned importSites.php maintenance script can be used to add an arbitrary group of wikis from custom made XML file in the following format:

<sitesversion="1.0"xmlns="https://www.mediawiki.org/xml/sitelist-1.0/">
<sitetype="mediawiki">
<globalid>wikisite1</globalid>
<group>mywikigroup</group>
<pathtype="file_path">https://www.wikisite1.org/1ドル</path>
<pathtype="page_path">https://www.wikisite1.org/index.php/1ドル</path>
</site>
<sitetype="mediawiki">
<globalid>wikisite2</globalid>
<group>mywikigroup</group>
<pathtype="file_path">https://www.wikisite2.org/w/1ドル</path>
<pathtype="page_path">https://www.wikisite2.org/wiki/1ドル</path>
</site>
</sites>

Each ‎<site> element representing a site.

file_path and page_path can be inferred from Special:Version page of the intended wiki.

Sometimes, you have to add your wikis in this table. You can use this code:

$sites = [];
foreach ( [ 'en', 'fr' ] as $langCode ) {
 $site = new MediaWikiSite();
 $site->setGlobalId( $langCode . 'mywiki' );
 $site->setGroup( 'mywiki' );
 $site->setLanguageCode( $langCode );
 $site->addInterwikiId( $langCode );
 $site->addNavigationId( $langCode );
 $site->setPath( MediaWikiSite::PATH_PAGE, "http://$langCode.mywiki.org/wiki/1ドル" );
 $site->setPath( MediaWikiSite::PATH_FILE, "http://$langCode.mywiki.org/w/1ドル" ); 
 $sites[] = $site;
}
$siteStore = MediaWikiServices::getInstance()->getSiteStore();
$siteStore->clear(); // Remove all previous entries from the table. Remove this call if you want to keep them.
$siteStore->saveSites( $sites );

MediaWiki caches the sites table in the local-server cache . After making changes to the sites table using any of the above methods, you should reload or restart any long-running MediaWiki PHP processes: your web server, continuous job runners (if any), etc. Otherwise, changes to the sites table will only become effective after the cache expires.

DESCRIBEsites;

+-----------------+------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+-----------------+------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| site_id | int(10) unsigned | NO | PRI | NULL | auto_increment |
| site_global_key | varbinary(64) | NO | UNI | NULL | |
| site_type | varbinary(32) | NO | MUL | NULL | |
| site_group | varbinary(32) | NO | MUL | NULL | |
| site_source | varbinary(32) | NO | MUL | NULL | |
| site_language | varbinary(35) | NO | MUL | NULL | |
| site_protocol | varbinary(32) | NO | MUL | NULL | |
| site_domain | varbinary(255) | NO | MUL | NULL | |
| site_data | blob | NO | | NULL | |
| site_forward | tinyint(1) | NO | MUL | NULL | |
| site_config | blob | NO | | NULL | |
+-----------------+------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+

DESCRIBEsites;

+-----------------+------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+-----------------+------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| site_id | int(10) unsigned | NO | PRI | NULL | auto_increment |
| site_global_key | varbinary(32) | NO | UNI | NULL | |
| site_type | varbinary(32) | NO | MUL | NULL | |
| site_group | varbinary(32) | NO | MUL | NULL | |
| site_source | varbinary(32) | NO | MUL | NULL | |
| site_language | varbinary(32) | NO | MUL | NULL | |
| site_protocol | varbinary(32) | NO | MUL | NULL | |
| site_domain | varbinary(255) | NO | MUL | NULL | |
| site_data | blob | NO | | NULL | |
| site_forward | tinyint(1) | NO | MUL | NULL | |
| site_config | blob | NO | | NULL | |
+-----------------+------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+

SHOWINDEXINsites;

+-------+------------+-----------------+--------------+-----------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+---------------+
| Table | Non_unique | Key_name | Seq_in_index | Column_name | Collation | Cardinality | Sub_part | Packed | Null | Index_type | Comment | Index_comment |
+-------+------------+-----------------+--------------+-----------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+---------------+
| sites | 0 | PRIMARY | 1 | site_id | A | 0 | NULL | NULL | | BTREE | | |
| sites | 0 | site_global_key | 1 | site_global_key | A | 0 | NULL | NULL | | BTREE | | |
+-------+------------+-----------------+--------------+-----------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+---------------+

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