MediaWiki settings of Wikimedia projects

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Each wiki has a file Manual:LocalSettings.php containing MediaWiki parameters for that wiki, see Wikimedia configuration files.

The installed extensions are listed in each wiki on the page Special:Version. Largely they are the same for all Wikimedia wikis, but there are exceptions:

In principal all other php files (and the CSS and JavaScript files) are those standard for the latest version of MediaWiki.

[edit] $wgRCMaxAge

It seems that for all Wikimedia projects $wgRCMaxAge corresponds to one month. This can be checked with Recent Changes for a not too busy namespace, or with Related Changes for a suitable page.

[edit] $wgMaxSigChars

The maximum customized signature length $wgMaxSigChars on the English Wikipedia has been set to its default value of 255.