Thanks Herald but I know this can't be done through Special:ManageWiki.

Please use Special:ManageWiki on your wiki to change these settings.

I'm going to keep all the backend code full, but change the front end code to obey config. It's easier then it means people can enable certain features later without having to do work to let says populate categories and stuff for everything as "uncategorised" and so on.

In T3199#60576, @MacFan4000 wrote:

Re: moving RemoteWiki, it was moved to MirahezeMagic by SPF for some reason

Re: moving RemoteWiki, it was moved to MirahezeMagic by SPF for some reason

This should also include better docs which I’ll also cover in the extensions. We may want to follow code coverage standards too?

Special:RandomWiki does the job. The backend code is fairly simple so this can be extended to other cases by anyone when ever.

This function can also be used by anything too, so a magic word can be made in the future, other extensions can extend to pick a wiki randomly for any purpose. WikiDiscoverRandom::randomWiki()->wiki_dbname would return a random open, English, uncategorised wiki specifically its database name. I'll change the code so selections are restricted, so in theory the above would return literally any database, regardless of state.

https://github.com/miraheze/WikiDiscover/compare/6b983f398e3c...e38bf09b47d0 lies the base for this. A wiki can be randomly selected based on its: state (open, closed, inactive), language and category.

Wikis can be filtered by Language and Category now.

Wikis are now visibly Categorised on Special:WikiDiscover and can be categorised now on Special:ManageWiki and new wikis can be categorised on Special:CreateWiki.

We now have an API for the extension. This is now a step closer to replacing SiteMatrix.

I think a nice starter list for categories be the categories used on the current "Gazetteer of wikis"

Going to mark this as resolved as I have just published a base extension which will begin to replace this extension.