getContentWithoutUsingSoManyDamnGlobals()

How about that for a function name? I kid you not. It's a function name from the mediawiki software version 1.30.

They have apparently done a lot of rewriting to improve the code and as the function name itself suggests to do away with a lot of globals that are being used in the 1.2x version. They also seem to have a very strong belief in descriptive function names.