User talk:MarkJaroski/Wix

Mark: hopefully this won't mess up your tests. Anyways, I've set up a public GNU Arch server for Wikivoyage-related software, and I thought you may be interested in putting Wix on it. (Due to limitations of the virtual server we're using, I can't set up a CVS server. Anyways, I'm really becoming an Arch convert.) Let me know and I'll set up an account. --(WT-en) Evan 15:52, 10 Mar 2004 (EST)

Cool! I like that a lot better than having it at geekhive. I've started reading the {arch} docs now, and will try playing with a local {arch} server tonight.

Actually, I was going to ask a bit of advice as well, on a couple of points:

• I've done this mostly as a perl module, with a really thin wrapper script for the command line. I figure that it's at least as useful as some of the stuff on CPAN, so I got an account. What do you think the namespace ought to be? How does WWW::Mediawiki::Client sound?

• In my test suite I've started adding tests which depend on a mediawiki install running on localhost. Do you think it be better to make those tests optional, or to try to simulate a mediawiki instance with perl, or is there a mediawiki install somewhere that you know about which I can have the test test against?

Thanks! -- (WT-en) Mark

OK. I've sent you username and password and other stuff. The namespace sounds great. As for testing, yeah, one of those perennial network-client-testing questions. I usually set up tests to use a configuration file or environment variable to identify the server, and skip the tests if no server was provided. --(WT-en) Evan 11:13, 11 Mar 2004 (EST)

Hey, looks like a really cool script. I will give it a try! -- (WT-en) mo 14:48, 8 Nov 2004 (EST)

Hm, I'm having difficulties getting any files downloaded. After I logged in (wix -d http://www.wikivoyage.org/en -u Mo -p 'password') I issued the command wix up Stirling.wiki, which prints Couldn't fetch Stirling.wiki from the server.HTTP get failed with: 404 at /usr/bin/wix line 71. Version is 0.14 installed via cpan script. Thanks for any help.

Security update makes Wix not function

With the Feb 4, 2005 security release of MediaWiki, Wix stops functioning as it does not fetch the wpEditToken value from the edit form. These versions (1.3.10 and 1.4beta6) are used in all of Wikimedia's wikis. wikipedia:User:kelvSYC

Hi kelvSYC. I'm expecting to upload a new version to CPAN today (CET) sometime. I've got the problem with wpEditToken worked out (actually I received a contribution) but there's a slightly harder problem now with getting the various edit paths right for Wikivoyage. This is caused by the way multilingualism is now handled here. It's fine though, the new version should be on CPAN today. -- (WT-en) Mark 01:40, 17 Feb 2005 (EST)