Kelly Jones wrote:

I want to write PHP code for a MediaWiki I own (I have command-line + admin access) that:

% Checks if a given article exists, and creates it if not.

% Checks if a given section exists in an article, and creates it if not.

% Edits a given section in a given article.

I want the edit to be done just as if a user had gone in and edited the page: it should create a history entry, update all the appropriate tables, update the page in the cache, etc.

Can I use MediaWiki's PHP functions/libraries to do this?

I think using a mediawiki bot framework like pywikipedia would be easier.

I realize I can use wget/curl/lynx/elinks to do this, but was looking for something more "internal".

On a related note, does MediaWiki come w/ any maintenance tools? Examples:

% Auto-fix all double redirects (if X -> Y -> Z, just edit X to redirect directly to Z).

There's a pywikipedia script to do that.

% Find all instances of certain words (eg, spam), and revert to the previous version of each page that contains those words (crude anti-vandalism tool). Delete pages where there is no previous version.

run maintenance/cleanupSpam.php

% For commonly misspelled articles, find all instances of [[wrong spelling]] and change them to [[correct spelling]] (redirecting "wrong spelling" to "right spelling" sort of works, but it still leaves the link misspelled on many pages)

run pywikipedia to change the links.

I realize SQL queries can do some of this, but they won't update the history, won't handle caching issues properly, etc. I'm looking for something that works within MediaWiki's framework, not an outside hack.

On 7/22/07, Kelly Jones kelly.terry.jones@gmail.com wrote:

I want to write PHP code for a MediaWiki I own (I have command-line + admin access) that:

% Checks if a given article exists, and creates it if not.

[...]

I want the edit to be done just as if a user had gone in and edited the page: it should create a history entry, update all the appropriate tables, update the page in the cache, etc.

Thanks to everyone who helped out here. It turns out this is fairly easy. This PHP command-line code (5 lines, excluding comments):

== CUT HERE ==

# Initialization require_once( './includes/WebStart.php' ); require_once( "includes/Wiki.php" ); $mediaWiki = new MediaWiki();

$article = new Article( $mediaWiki->checkInitialQueries("EditMe","",$wgOut,$wgRequest,$wgContLang) ); $article->doEdit("this is page text", "i made some changes");

== CUT HERE ==

will create the page "EditMe" with the text "this is page text" and history comment "i made some changes".

If the page already exists, the code above will edit it, replacing its current text with "this is page text" (and the history comment "i made some changes".

Because it uses MediaWiki's framework, it appears to update all the tables/caches/etc correctly.

It doesn't do everything I want (the Article::getSection() function is sadly deprecated), but it's a great start!