These are static versions of mediawiki configurations, necessary to run parsoid offline and to run parserTests. The JSON files are the cached results of a siteinfo query like: curl 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&prop=&meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces%7Cnamespacealiases%7Cmagicwords%7Cfunctionhooks%7Cextensiontags%7Cgeneral%7Cinterwikimap%7Clanguages%7Cprotocols%7Cspecialpagealiases To generate/regenerate: $ for lang in ar ban be-tarask ca cs de en eo es fa fi fr is kaa ln nl ru sr tr zh ; do \ php tools/SyncBaseConfig.php --domain=${lang}.wikipedia.org ; \ done