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Andrew
Andrew

Reputation: 14526

Running WikiMedia lua script or expanding API module output

I have two specific questions and I hope someone can answer either of them:

  1. Is there a way to provide MediaWiki's mw library to a stand-alone lua script?
  2. Is there an API command or property that exposes the output of a dynamic module?

Background: I am trying to figure out how to access the output of a wiktionary module (in this case, pron-th). This is a module that can be dynamically inserted by editors to show transliteration (pronunciation) of Thai words. For example, whenever an editor has added this line:

 {{th-pron|ไคฺร่}}

...the server will run the Lua script documented found here and outputs a table showing the various transliterations (example). However, this output is specifically excluded when doing API requests (example) and I cannot find an endpoint that includes this data. And running the lua script directly fails because it is missing several imports, such as mw.ustring, mw.text, etc., which I believe are defined in a PHP include higher up their software stack. I have significant PHP experience but none with Lua, so I am sort of at a loss here.

Short of calling up each page directly and scraping the data, I can't think of a way to do this.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 278

Answers (1)

FO-nTTaX
FO-nTTaX

Reputation: 611

The MediaWiki mw library is part of the Scribunto extension (see https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-Scribunto/tree/master/includes/engines/LuaCommon/lualib), and has a lot of dependencies back to MEdiawikis php core, so it won't be easy to just import that.

You could render that wikitext via API like https://en.wiktionary.org/w/api.php?action=parse&text=%20{{th-pron|%E0%B9%84%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%BA%E0%B8%A3%E0%B9%88}}&contentmodel=wikitext and parse the output, or you could try and replace the MediaWiki specific function calls with other function calls to some native Lua library.

Upvotes: 1

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