Manual:$wgContentHandlerTextFallback

Content Models and Handlers
MediaWiki allows for page content types other than wikitext. It offers built-in support for JavaScript, CSS, JSON and plain text. Extensions can use MediaWiki's ContentHandler mechanism to add new content models for accepting different formats and controlling how they are rendered, stored and edited.
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$wgContentHandlers $wgNamespaceContentModels $wgContentHandlerTextFallback $wgContentHandlerUseDB
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ContentHandler: $wgContentHandlerTextFallback
How to react if a plain text version of a non-text Content object is requested using ContentHandler::getContentText()
Introduced in version:	1.21.0
Removed in version:	still in use
Allowed values:	(one of the allowed parameters)
Default value:	'ignore'
Other settings: Alphabetical | By function

Allowed parameters

Depending on the value, the following action is taken when Content is not a TextContent object:

• 'ignore' - ContentHandler::getContentText returns null
• 'fail' - Throw an MWException
• 'serialize' - Use the Content objects serialize method to get a string