673496 - Create script to edit the wiki automatically

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Websites :: wiki.mozilla.org, defect)

Description

[Chris More [:cmore]]

Per bug 673069, the API is now enabled on the wiki. Write a script that you can pass a username, password, wiki page title, and page contents and it will update a given wiki page's content.

The URL of the API is:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/api.php (shows use info with no actions)

Here is a link to some client code:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Client_code

The following shell script should have worked (changing ksh93 to ksh), but it would not let me login with my account as it said bad token. 

http://dfrench.hypermart.net/js/Downloads/Scripts/Korn/Functions/wikiAutoLoad/wikiautoload-wiki-api.php-automatic-upload-uploading-korn-bash-shell-script-function/

I was able to authenticate successfully using the following example:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Bcoughlan/Login_with_curl

No rush on this one and only something to do between other projects and when you are free.

Comment 1

[Chris More [:cmore]]

Example usage: update-wiki.php -u username -p password -t "Some wiki page title" -c page-content.txt

It doesn't have to be PHP, but it needs to run on Khan with what is currently available. The example usage is purely just an example and can be changed to whatever is handy.

Comment 2

[Alison Wheeler [:AlisonW]]

Usecase please. This, in essence, would appear to mostly suit spam automation rather than do anything which cannot be accomplished simply by a user currently.

Comment 3

[Osmose [:osmose, :mkelly]]

I believe https://github.com/Osmose/scripts/tree/master/yaml2wiki was the result of this bug. Either way, if cmore still needs it, he can reopen. :P

(In reply to Alison Wheeler [:AlisonW] from comment #2)
> Usecase please. This, in essence, would appear to mostly suit spam
> automation rather than do anything which cannot be accomplished simply by a
> user currently.

For the record, the usecase was something along the lines of creating wiki pages for meetings and other recurring events that we wanted to document.

Comment 4

[Chris More [:cmore]]

We don't need it right now, but maybe again in the future. We'll keep this closed. Thanks