On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 10:03 PM Bryan Davis <bd...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 5:02 PM Huji Lee <huji.h...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > Is there an API call that would allow you to retrieve the edit notice > for a > > page? > > I did not find a specific Action API that does this, but the edit > notices themselves are found at predictable URLs per > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Interface/Edit_notice>: > * MediaWiki:Editnotice-<N> (where N is the namespace id) > * MediaWiki:Editnotice-<N>-<Title> (where any '/' in the title is > replaced with '-') > > You could also find all editnotice messages for a wiki using a prefix > search generator: > This is your best bet. Note that, in namespaces with subpages, a page at "Project:Foo/Bar/Baz" would display any editnotices at MediaWiki:Editnotice-4-Foo and MediaWiki:Editnotice-4-Foo-Bar in addition to MediaWiki:Editnotice-4-Foo-Bar-Baz. There's also the 'TitleGetEditNotices' hook, which extensions can use to add arbitrary other messages as edit notices. For example, GlobalUserPage uses this to add a notice when editing the page used as a global user page for a user, and TitleBlacklist uses it to add a notice when the tboverride right is allowing the user to create/edit a blacklisted page. There's also https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T45683 about this question. BTW, some incidental history: The per-page edit notices were removed in 2009 (r48276 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/48276>), but for some unspecified reason only for namespaces without subpages, and those were added back in 2011 (r97686 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/97686>) because the inconsistency was seen as a bug rather than an incomplete removal. That removal is why enwiki doesn't use the MediaWiki:Editnotice-<N>-<Title> style notices, instead having every MediaWiki:Editnotice-<N> invoke a template that transcludes subpages of Template:Editnotices/ <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/Template:Editnotices/> (plus that system has evolved to become a bit more flexible). -- 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
