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2025-03-19 02:03:36 <gry> Hi, I would like to create a page from an external javascript app on a wiki. I have page title and content. How can I shove the suggested the content into a page creation article body content? Like https://test.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gryllida2&preload=Gryllida&action=edit but in my case I don't have the luxury of having content on an existing page yet.
2025-03-19 02:58:50 <moonmoon> gry: you can't
2025-03-19 02:59:09 <gry> moonmoon: how do others do it then? like for app which uploads from flickr to commons?
2025-03-19 02:59:09 <moonmoon> well, let me clarify
2025-03-19 02:59:25 <moonmoon> you can't pre-populate page content for a user to then amend and submit via the UI
2025-03-19 02:59:53 <moonmoon> you *can* make a POST request to api.php and specify the content directly, provided you have the requisite tokens for the user you're editing as
2025-03-19 03:00:29 <moonmoon> (the api.php method will create/save the page without user interaction/intervention)
2025-03-19 03:08:28 <gry> moonmoon: OK, what api is this for post?
2025-03-19 03:08:53 <moonmoon> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Edit
2025-03-19 03:14:41 <gry> moonmoon: i go https://test.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=tokens take token to https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=edit&format=json&title=Gryllida2&text=Hello%20world%0AThis%20is%20a%20test.&summary=Created%20the%20page%20via%20api%20sandbox.&token=&formatversion=2 it says invalid token
2025-03-19 03:15:26 <moonmoon> you either used the wrong token, or you aren't presenting cookies
2025-03-19 03:15:48 <moonmoon> Special:ApiSandbox is going to be your friend here
2025-03-19 03:15:52 <moonmoon> or apps like Postman
2025-03-19 03:19:29 <gry> moonmoon: i'm using api sandbox, it provides me with these urls. you can try it if you like. i couldn't get the right token from it.
2025-03-19 03:22:42 <moonmoon> what does the token you're putting in end with?
2025-03-19 03:22:54 <moonmoon> (last 3 characters)
2025-03-19 03:28:52 <moonmoon> the token should end with +\ (one backslash). The JSON representation contains 2 because backslashes need to be escaped in JSON, but passing 2 back will be invalid
2025-03-19 03:29:13 <moonmoon> if the token is +\ without anything before it, then you're being treated as logged out/anonymous
2025-03-19 03:29:18 <gry> ah two slashes
2025-03-19 03:29:19 <gry> ok
2025-03-19 03:30:00 <gry> works now thanks
2025-03-19 03:30:11 <moonmoon> (the choice of +\ was intentional back in the day to act as a trap for misconfigured or miscoded scripts)
2025-03-19 03:30:37 <gry> it's a pain for my script, i'll chop off one last symbol :-(
2025-03-19 03:30:47 <moonmoon> use a proper JSON parser, and then it'll work just fine
2025-03-19 03:31:03 <moonmoon> literally every programming language that isn't C has one
2025-03-19 03:31:12 <gry> right, for example, https://test.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=tokens&format=xml works ok
2025-03-19 03:31:17 <moonmoon> (C has one too it just isn't stdlib)
2025-03-19 03:34:56 <gry> thanks for your help moonmoon this wasn't obvious
2025-03-19 03:59:13 <gry> if you have an example i'd appreciate it, i'm working outside of the wiki so mw.api stuff is not available
2025-03-19 04:33:31 <moonmoon> example scripts are on the link, or you can use e.g. pywikipediabot
2025-03-19 04:37:12 <gry> looking for js thanks i will check out the page
2025-03-19 20:36:31 <lucaswerkmeister> dcausse: I finally have access to the server again where I saw all those cirrusSearchElasticaWrite jobs… and are you sure those only get created when there are errors? (our last discussion on this was on 10 march ^^)
2025-03-19 20:36:57 <lucaswerkmeister> I see various cirrus jobs, including cirrusSearchLinksUpdatePrioritized, cirrusSearchIncomingLinkCount and cirrusSearchElasticaWrite, and they all seem to succeed
2025-03-19 20:37:33 <lucaswerkmeister> and looking at the code in includes/Updater.php, it looks to me like cirrusSearchElasticaWrite should be queued in normal situations, including updatePages()
2025-03-19 20:37:50 <lucaswerkmeister> (both in REL1_39 and REL1_43)
2025-03-19 20:47:42 <dcausse> lucaswerkmeister: weird... in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/extensions/CirrusSearch/+/553d9214143c0574cd0a47c3b8762554cf576bec/includes/Updater.php#464 ElasticaWrite jobs are only queued if $clusterSettings->isIsolated() otherwise they're run inline
2025-03-19 20:47:58 <dcausse> haven't checked older mw version tho, but I don't think that behavior is new
2025-03-19 20:54:19 <dcausse> 1.39 should run inline (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/extensions/CirrusSearch/+/refs/heads/REL1_39/includes/Updater.php#426), not sure what's happening...
2025-03-19 21:12:08 <lucaswerkmeister> oh, I see, I didn’t look at that line
2025-03-19 21:12:39 <lucaswerkmeister> let me see if I can figure out if it’s isolated or not for me
2025-03-19 21:17:46 <lucaswerkmeister> dcausse: the default for $wgCirrusSearchWriteIsolateClusters is null, and according to https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/extensions/CirrusSearch/+/refs/heads/REL1_39/includes/ClusterSettings.php#98 null apparently means “all clusters are isolated” not “no clusters are isolated”
2025-03-19 21:18:31 <lucaswerkmeister> whether that’s correct or a bug, I can’t say :)
2025-03-19 21:19:49 <dcausse> lucaswerkmeister: oh my bad, sorry about that did not realize this was behaving like that...
2025-03-19 21:20:23 <lucaswerkmeister> no problem! :D
2025-03-19 21:20:24 <dcausse> that means I'm a bit puzzled about your jobqueue issue :)
2025-03-19 21:20:43 <lucaswerkmeister> hm, why? I thought that means everything is basically fine
2025-03-19 21:21:15 <lucaswerkmeister> except that the server isn’t running jobs quite fast enough, which https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Hooks/ApiMaxLagInfo#Example helps with a bit
2025-03-19 21:21:25 <lucaswerkmeister> (and I’ll also try to add another job runner or two)
2025-03-19 21:22:02 <lucaswerkmeister> but if I understand correctly, the cirrusSearchElasticaWrite are expected (since it’s treating the clusters as isolated ⇒ jobs are queued rather than ran inline)
2025-03-19 21:22:38 <dcausse> lucaswerkmeister: if it's "just" throughput issue sure
2025-03-19 21:23:33 <dcausse> lucaswerkmeister: yes they are, but unsure if this is what we intended... I wonder if we could skip this additional cirrusSearchElasticaWrite for "simple" setups
2025-03-19 21:23:43 <lucaswerkmeister> I think it’s just throughput, yeah
2025-03-19 21:23:50 <lucaswerkmeister> I can file a task if you like ^^
2025-03-19 21:23:59 <dcausse> lucaswerkmeister: please do :)
2025-03-19 21:28:39 <lucaswerkmeister> filed T389429 :)
2025-03-19 21:28:40 <stashbot> T389429: Investigate whether it’s intentional / correct that default CirrusSearch setups run cirrusSearchElasticaWrite as separate jobs - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T389429
2025-03-19 21:28:51 <lucaswerkmeister> thanks a lot for looking into it!
2025-03-19 21:31:46 <dcausse> thanks! I'm pretty sure that extra hop is not necessary and will save some resource on non-wmf wikis
2025-03-19 21:32:34 <muqsit> theres a lack of good 3D extensions for media wiki
2025-03-19 21:33:23 <Reedy> 3D extension being...?
2025-03-19 21:33:56 <muqsit> extensions that can render 3D objects (.stl, .glb, etc. files)
2025-03-19 21:34:02 <dcausse> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:3D ?
2025-03-19 21:34:25 <muqsit> i checked Extension:3D, i suppose it is the best one
2025-03-19 21:34:52 <muqsit> the thing is, Extension:3D has a laborious installation.. it asks you to download 3d2png
2025-03-19 21:35:22 <dcausse> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Puchar_Wikipedia_10_cm.stl#/media/File:Puchar_Wikipedia_10_cm.stl
2025-03-19 21:35:22 <muqsit> 3d2png only runs in docker, so you have to setup a docker and everything (yes there is no alternative way without a docker container)
2025-03-19 21:35:56 <muqsit> the other issue with it is .stl does not support textures
2025-03-19 21:36:17 <muqsit> e.g., i am trying to render a minecraft build, and it doesnt look as pleasing without the textures (blocks cant be differentiated)
2025-03-19 21:36:39 <muqsit> .glb/.gltf on the other hand seems rather the standard these days
2025-03-19 21:36:51 <muqsit> .glb/.gltf on the other hand seems rather the standard these days (webgl)
2025-03-19 21:36:52 <moonmoon> you don't need docker to run 3d2png
2025-03-19 21:37:54 <muqsit> > The deploy repository needs to be built on a system as similar to the production hosts as possible. For this reason, we use the service-runner package, which spins up a Docker container based on the definition provided in the deploy stanza of package.json, installs the distribution packages needed, builds the node_modules directory and updates
2025-03-19 21:37:54 <muqsit> the source repo submodule.
2025-03-19 21:37:55 <muqsit> i suppose i misread the instruction
2025-03-19 21:37:55 <moonmoon> it's just node.js
2025-03-19 21:38:00 <muqsit> i see
2025-03-19 21:38:08 <muqsit> yeah service-runner should take care of all that
2025-03-19 21:38:34 <muqsit> but yeah only stl support is the other drawback
2025-03-19 21:38:47 <Reedy> patches welcome
2025-03-19 21:39:12 <muqsit> yes i am currently working on either improving the existing 3D extension or forking it
2025-03-19 21:39:29 <muqsit> google has this really nice javascript library (modelviewer.dev) you can visit the site and see nice examples
2025-03-19 21:39:39 <muqsit> and it supports webgl models
2025-03-19 21:40:30 <muqsit> plan is to use the javascript library for rendering 3D models, but i have yet to get a grasp of the mediawiki extension landscape :(
2025-03-19 21:41:15 <muqsit> from what i gathered, you have to register a MediaHandler of sorts?

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