ResourceLoader/Vocabulary

Context[edit]

Web requests to load.php can specify values for these; ResourceLoader does so when it inserts load.php URLs in the HTML and JavaScript that it generates. PHP server code can retrieve their values through getDebug/Skin/Language() methods of ResourceLoaderContext. In the browser these usually map to debug, skin, and wgUserLanguage configuration values in mw.config.

debug: Also known as Development mode. See Debug mode for more information.
skin: The ID of the skin that the requesting page uses.
lang: The language code of the interface that the requesting page is displayed in.

Module bundles[edit]

module

A bundle of one or more resources, identified by a module name.

resource

Any part of a module (script file, stylesheet, interface message).

message blob

One or more interface messages in a given language, encoded using JSON.

dependencies

One or more other modules that must load before current module.

origin

The authority that the resources of a module originate from. This is used to determine whether a module is allowed in contexts with heightened security requirements. For example, user- or site-generated module code is not allowed on the Special:UserLogin or Special:Preferences pages. This can be one of four values:

Core-Sitewide: Source code developed as part of trusted software (MediaWiki core, skin or extension).
Core-Individual: Auto-generated by trusted software for an individual user (e.g. user preferences blob).
User-Sitewide: Raw source code provided directly by end-users of the wiki who have site-wide permissions (e.g. Common.js, or a gadget).
User-Individual: Raw source code provided directly by an individual user, not assumed to from a user with sitewide authority.