Further-developing.md

#Sandbox for further developing

Last status mail

Possibility to add more pages overtime

One would like to track other pages. We need to create a command to add these pages to the repository. Issue : Necessity to rewrite the entire history

Possibility to log in to the wiki

The mediawiki->login method from the API returns a sessionid. If we cross it with mediawiki->{ua}->{cookie_jar}, it should be able to maintain session between two calls without having to re-login. To go further, it could be really nice to type something in the lines of "git config remote.$remotename.username" to get the username pretending it is stored in .git/config and use Term::ReadKey; ReadMode('noecho'); $password = ReadLine(0); to get the password

Clone tracked pages

Combining Partial clones and login possibilities, it could be also nice to login and only clone pages that are tracked by a user.

Merge patterns

We strongly advise the use of git pull --rebase using this script, to keep things clean between git and mediawiki. Maybe other solutions are to be found. See status mail

Sending attached files to wiki pages

In mediawiki one can upload and download images, videos, archives, etc to wiki pages. The MediaWiki enables that thanks to MediaWiki::API->dowload($params_hash) and MediaWiki::API->download($params_hash).

Renaming and deleting files

MediaWiki has its own norms regarding these actions.

Renaming files

• Not investigated. MediaWiki behaves in its own way with file renaming and should be investigated further.

Deleting files

• Import deleted file signals from mediawiki : if during the mediawiki API call for pages (git pull), a page is not found, a 'delete' info should be written in the fast-import stream.
• Export deleted file signals to mediawiki : this is trickier because of the rights required to remove a file. With git diff --raw, the status of a file ([M]odified, [D]eleted ...) can be get. If it's 'D', send a remove query to mediawiki