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--- a/docs/globals.txt
+++ b/docs/globals.txt
@@ -1,17 +1,15 @@
 globals.txt
 
-Globals are evil. The original MediaWiki code relied on
-globals for processing context far too often. MediaWiki
-development since then has been a story of slowly moving
-context out of global variables and into objects. Storing
-processing context in object member variables allows those
-objects to be reused in a much more flexible way. Consider
-the elegance of:
+Globals are evil. The original MediaWiki code relied on globals for processing
+context far too often. MediaWiki development since then has been a story of
+slowly moving context out of global variables and into objects. Storing
+processing context in object member variables allows those objects to be reused
+in a much more flexible way. Consider the elegance of:
 
     # Generate the article HTML as if viewed by a web request
     $article = new Article( Title::newFromText( $t ) );
     $article->view();
-
+ 
 versus
 
     # Save current globals
@@ -27,58 +25,43 @@ versus
     $wgTitle = $oldTitle
     $wgArticle = $oldArticle
 
-Some of the current MediaWiki developers have an idle
-fantasy that some day, globals will be eliminated from
-MediaWiki entirely, replaced by an application object which 
-would be passed to constructors. Whether that would be an 
-efficient, convenient solution remains to be seen, but 
-certainly PHP 5 makes such object-oriented programming 
-models easier than they were in previous versions.
-
-For the time being though, MediaWiki programmers will have
-to work in an environment with some global context. At the 
-time of writing, 418 globals were initialised on startup by 
-MediaWiki. 304 of these were configuration settings, which 
-are documented in DefaultSettings.php. There is no 
-comprehensive documentation for the remaining 114 globals, 
-however some of the most important ones are listed below. 
-They are typically initialised either in index.php or in 
+Some of the current MediaWiki developers have an idle fantasy that some day,
+globals will be eliminated from MediaWiki entirely, replaced by an application
+object which would be passed to constructors. Whether that would be an
+efficient, convenient solution remains to be seen, but certainly PHP 5 makes
+such object-oriented programming models easier than they were in previous
+versions.
+
+For the time being though, MediaWiki programmers will have to work in an
+environment with some global context. At the time of writing, 418 globals were
+initialised on startup by MediaWiki. 304 of these were configuration settings,
+which are documented in DefaultSettings.php. There is no comprehensive
+documentation for the remaining 114 globals, however some of the most important
+ones are listed below. They are typically initialised either in index.php or in
 Setup.php.
 
+For a description of the classes, see design.txt.
+
+$wgTitle
+	Title object created from the request URL.
 
 $wgOut
 	OutputPage object for HTTP response.
 
 $wgUser
-	User object for the user associated with the current
-	request.
-
-$wgTitle
-	Title object created from the request URL.
+	User object for the user associated with the current request.
 
 $wgLang
-	Language object selected by user preferences
+	Language object selected by user preferences.
 
 $wgContLang
-	Language object associated with the wiki being
-	viewed.
-
-$wgArticle
-	Article object corresponding to $wgTitle.
+	Language object associated with the wiki being viewed.
 
 $wgParser
-	Parser object. Parser extensions register their
-	hooks here.
-
-$wgLoadBalancer
-	A LoadBalancer object, manages database connections.
+	Parser object. Parser extensions register their hooks here.
 
 $wgRequest
 	WebRequest object, to get request data
 
 $wgMemc, $messageMemc, $parserMemc
 	Object caches
-
-$wgMessageCache
-	Message cache, to manage interface messages
-