Huma

Huma (https://huma.wmcloud.org) is a tool to give more visibility and structured insight into MediaWiki and its components.

It's mainly a PostgreSQL database which you can query directly via https://huma.wmcloud.org/sql.

Database schema

It has two tables:

methods

This table is a registry of methods in MediaWiki. It has three fields:

• class_name: Name of the class including namespace.
• method_name: Name of the method/attribute/constant.
• info: json object containing information about the method. Here is an example:

{
	"visibility": "public",
	"name": "select",
	"parameters": [
		{
			"hard_type_hint": "array",
			"name": "$connections",
			"soft_type_hint": "ConnectionInterface[]"
		}
	],
	"hard_return_type_hint": "Elasticsearch\\Connections\\ConnectionInterface",
	"body_size": 47,
	"class_info": {
		"implements": [
			"Elasticsearch\\ConnectionPool\\Selectors\\SelectorInterface"
		]
	},
	"method": true
}

calls

This table is registry of function calls and dependencies between classes. It has four columns:

• caller_class_name: Class name of the code that is calling. Including namespaces.
• caller_method_name: Method name of the caller.
• called_class_name: Class that is being called.
• called_method_name: The name of the method that is being called.

Admin

See the subpage

Source code

• web application part
• Report issues and features

Further reading

• File:Huma bird eye view of mediawiki.pdf: Showcase slide of huma in Wikimedia Hackathon 2024