diff --git a/docs/.wikven.yaml b/docs/.wikven.yaml
index 34d0c4316..a3cc65d63 100644
--- a/docs/.wikven.yaml
+++ b/docs/.wikven.yaml
@@ -16,6 +16,11 @@ skins:
   - Citizen
   - MinervaNeue
 config:
+  # Where this site is served from. Nothing in a build can work this out for itself: it renders
+  # against a local server and links every page relatively, which is what lets an export run from
+  # any directory and any host. Anything that has to name a page from outside the site is built
+  # from this.
+  WikvenSiteUrl: https://chaotic-ground.github.io/wikven/
   WikvenFooterUrl: https://github.com/chaotic-ground/wikven
   WikvenEditUrl: https://github.com/chaotic-ground/wikven/edit/main/docs/$1
   WikvenHistoryUrl: https://github.com/chaotic-ground/wikven/commits/main/docs/$1
diff --git a/includes/WikvenSettings.php b/includes/WikvenSettings.php
index 673be8952..65c6ff721 100644
--- a/includes/WikvenSettings.php
+++ b/includes/WikvenSettings.php
@@ -155,8 +155,11 @@
 // Load config: default.yml then the site file via $wgSettings; ext/skin lists loaded leniently.
 global $wgSettings;
 
-// Autoloader not active yet at LocalSettings time; load the helper directly.
+// Autoloader not active yet at LocalSettings time; load the helpers directly. SiteUrl belongs here
+// rather than beside its other use below: lint() reads a site's WikvenSiteUrl through it, and that
+// runs a few lines down from here.
 require_once "$IP/extensions/Wikven/includes/SiteConfig.php";
+require_once "$IP/extensions/Wikven/includes/SiteUrl.php";
 
 // Pick the highest-precedence config name present; warn about any others.
 $wikvenLocated = MediaWiki\Extension\Wikven\SiteConfig::locate($wikvenSrc);
@@ -198,9 +201,6 @@
 // Push merged config into globals so the logo handling below reads final values.
 $wgSettings->apply();
 
-// Autoloader not active yet at LocalSettings time; load the helper directly.
-require_once "$IP/extensions/Wikven/includes/SiteUrl.php";
-
 // Core keeps a site's address in two halves -- $wgCanonicalServer is scheme and host, a path lives
 // elsewhere -- and a site should not have to write it twice. It writes WikvenSiteUrl once and this
 // hands core the half core understands, so an absolute URL core or any extension builds names the