Last modified: 2013-11-19 15:40:12 UTC
I'd expect it to return the contents of the page from the i18n files, since that's what I see when I view it without action=raw
Wouldn't the world be a nicer place if action=raw just didn't exist anymore? ;-)
Krenair's suggestion of using usemsgcache=true along with action=raw works :) I'm unsure what the desired behavior here is. Should usemsgcache=true be assumed for MediaWiki namespace?
Wouldn't the world be a nicer place if we didn't fake the existence of pages in mediawiki namespace?
I looked a bit more and realized that usemsgcache=true will return data from the i18n cache and not count for overrides. So that negates what was said in #c2. However, I still think usemsgcache=true should be assumed if the page does not exist. Wouldn't the world be a nicer place if action=raw and action=view were consistent? :)
(In reply to comment #4) > Wouldn't the world be a nicer place if action=raw and action=view were > consistent? :) And is this really an "Internationalisation" request? Looks not: sending to General. Also, per comment 3 this borders WONTFIX: turning to lowest priority.
(In reply to comment #5) > Also, per comment 3 this borders WONTFIX: turning to lowest priority. Before doing exactly that: what is the real life use case for this?
The use case is when you want the raw data of a translated message used by mediawiki. The particular case was, I was trying to find out the localized Main Pages of all wikis. If you hit https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%80%E0%AE%9F%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%BF:Mainpage?action=view you will see that it is returned as "முதற் பக்கம்", which is picked up from the i18n cache. The logic for this page's contents seem to be: 1. if that particular page exists (Mediawiki:<something>) return that, else return value of <something> from message cache. This mostly works for action=raw too - for example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Mainpage?action=raw returns appropriate response, consistent with action=view However, https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%80%E0%AE%9F%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%BF:Mainpage?action=raw returns a 404 - the only change being action=view to action=raw. It turns out that on tawiki, at some previous point the custom page existed, but was hence deleted. Hence while action=view falls back appropriately to the i18n cache, action=raw does not, and returns a 404.
Is this bug a good candidate for Google Code-in? https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-In
