Manual:Wiki ID/en

The wiki ID (or database ID) is the most common way of identifying a wiki within a wiki farm in MediaWiki. When every wiki is in a separate database, it is simply the database name; when multiple wikis share a database and are differentiated with table prefixes, it is in the form. It can be retrieved by calling  (in older versions of MediaWiki,  ). It is used for getting a database connection for a given wiki (see ) and in, among other things.