On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 8:12 PM, mathieu stumpf guntz < psychosl...@culture-libre.org> wrote:
> Well, actually, depending on what you mean with have page parses make > edits to the wiki, I'm not sure what I'm looking for fall under this > umbrella. > > What I would like is a way to do something like > > local data = mw.loadData( 'Module:Name/data/entry' ) > -- do some stuff with `data` > mw.saveData( 'Module:Name/data/entry', data) > > That's it. > And that, like all Scribunto modules, would run during the parse of the page. > If you do think it's an horrible akward awfully disgusting idea , I would > be interested to know more technical details on what problems it might lead > to (not the global result of nightmarish hell on earth that I'm obviously > targeting ) > Confusion for users when purging a page results in edits somewhere else. Misattribution of the resulting edits. Opportunities for vandals to misuse it. Performance issues. And T67258. > Your initial idea of somehow hooking into the editor (whether that's the > wikitext editor or VE) with JavaScript to allow humans to make edits to the > data module while editing another page was much better. > > I didn't even thought about JS actually. For the wikitext removal of > updating parameter, I had in mind some inplace template substitution. > Does javascript allow to change an other page on the wiki, especially a > data module, at some point when the user edit/save an article? > That's what your original message sounded like you were talking about. A JavaScript gadget of whatever sort could make edits by using the action API. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Senior Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
