User:Ianweller/mw thoughts

Nothing here is permanent
If you want to help out with mw, you basically get to help decide what happens. Tell me — or just edit stuff — if you think you can help.

Local junk

• mw init API_URL_OR_ALIAS
• mw login
• mw logout
• mw local-reset — when you've somehow fucked up your local repository; should let you keep what you have downloaded, but reverts them to the most recent version, and also clears out the metadir as much as possible

Fetching

• mw fetch [ --rv=DATESPEC ] PAGE_NAME
• mw fetch-category [ --rv=DATESPEC ] CATEGORY_NAME
• mw fetch-all [ --rv=DATESPEC ]
• mw update [ FILE ... ]

Page functions

• mw add FILE ...
• mw delete FILE ...
• mw move OLD_FILE NEW_FILE
• mw protect FILE ...
• mw watch FILE ...
• mw unwatch FILE ...

History and repo status

log and blame are considered most important by Ian

• mw status [ FILE ... ]
• mw diff [ --rv=REV_ID ] [ FILE ... ]
• mw log FILE
• mw blame FILE

Committing / editing

• mw commit [ FILE ]
• mw undo REV_ID
• mw revert REV_ID

Media files

Media files have a text description as well as the actual file. Therefore we need separate download/upload commands for media files.

Repository directory layout

<repo>/
  .mw/
    config
  cat/
    <folders with symlinks to pages in category>
  img/
    <where stuff from the Media/File/Image namespaces go>
  <all pages -- subpages have slashes converted to exclamation points>

Things that would be rockin' but totally not needed

• Preview (if local, requires MediaWiki and deps to be installed, I guess -- and also doesn't handle extensions or templates on the wiki you're saving to)
  • Or what about saving in your user space on a wiki, like User:Username/mw_test_XXXXXX (XXXXXX is a temporary ID), and providing a link to that? Or even opening your browser? Configurable?
• Can we somehow have tagging/branching support? Does that even make sense for a MediaWiki?
• Syncing per-wiki settings across instances by saving to User:Username/mw_settings? (branches and tags could be defined here too)