On 2014-11-10 5:53 PM, John wrote:
OK, Ive spent the better part of two hours trying to figure out mediawiki JavaScript. In the last two hours all I have accomplished is giving myself a headache.
My goal is a basic JavaScript tool for moving pages. On a private wiki I run it is often needed to archive material that is no longer needed, We dont like to delete because often this material is still useful. Instead we move it to a custom namespace.
What I am trying to do in JavaScript and failing spectacularly at is a tool that will take Title, and move it to Archive:Title without a redirect with a single click.
Yes I know it sounds simple but Im having a devil of a time figuring out how to use the mediawiki js api
Any help would be welcome
Here's a few hints of what you'll need.
Get an APi instance with: var api = new mw.Api();
Get an edit token with: api.getToken('edit');
Move a page with: api.post({ from: ..., to: ..., reason: "...", noredirect: true, token: edittoken });
Note that api methods are async and return a jQuery "promise".
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/]