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Improve support for MediaWiki wikis with non-standard URLs
Since the addition of support for different servers, it uses /wiki/$1
pattern to detect whether something is a wiki or not. Judging by interwiki map on Meta-Wiki, we can see that this is not enough to determine whether something is a MediaWiki wiki or not: they can also use simple /$1
or something convoluted like /index.php?title=$1
or /index.php/$1
and still be valid wikis.
This poses two problems for the current code:
- Easier one: support more wiki URL patterns in linking bot. This can be done by including checks for more URL patterns and fetching APIs of those wikis for their interwiki chains. I should come up with a good way to know (and even remember) wiki URLs somewhere, because it might be silly to ask, say, Google for
/api.php
a hundred times. - Harder one: update the current code to use
/api.php
at the end of the string as a way to validate wiki URLs rather than/wiki/$1
. That way, the bot will ask the API and get and remember the article path from there. I didn’t hear any requests before asking about this problem, but it will be a good thing to do. All the old values with/wiki/$1
will need to be deprecated and updated in the configs.
The removal of deprecation of old URLs will introduce a new major version (v.N.0.0) of the bot.