pagegenerators should accept pageids
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	Oct 5 2013, 4:20 AM

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Originally from: http://sourceforge.net/p/pywikipediabot/feature-requests/231/
Reported by: mike_lifeguard
Created on: 2009-11-17 13:22:27
Subject: delete.py should accept pageids
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It is apparently possible to delete invalid titles using the API by specifying the pageid. delete.py should therefore accept pageids to delete, rather than titles. This should be possible with the -pageid:1234 parameter, or -file:/whatever -pageid if the file is a list of pageids rather than titles.

Version: core-(2.0)
Severity: enhancement
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https://sourceforge.net/p/pywikipediabot/feature-requests/231

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Reference: bz55072

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	site.py: delete page using pageid instead of title	pywikibot/core	master	+16 -7

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		Resolved		Mpaa	T57072 pagegenerators should accept pageids
		Resolved		None	T133209 create a -pageid generator which works almost identically to -page

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Legoktm created this task.Oct 5 2013, 4:20 AM

delete.py now uses the default pagegenerators (bug 55096)

Is it important to be able to delete 'invalid titles'. It sounds like it would be useful for stewards and SWMT?

Aklapper added a project: Pywikibot.Nov 27 2014, 4:16 PM

jayvdb moved this task from Backlog to Generator requests on the Pywikibot-pagegenerators.py board.Dec 4 2014, 2:54 PM

I'm not convinced this would actually work -- Page.delete uses the title (as far as I know), not the page id...

Invalid titles are an issue for sites that have switched from latin-1 to utf-8 -- sometimes, they still have a latin-1 page title in the database, which then cannot be retrieved nor deleted.

In T57072#818875, @valhallasw wrote:

I'm not convinced this would actually work -- Page.delete uses the title (as far as I know), not the page id...

Invalid titles are an issue for sites that have switched from latin-1 to utf-8 -- sometimes, they still have a latin-1 page title in the database, which then cannot be retrieved nor deleted.

It looks like you are right. Page.delete refers itself to Site, and Site.deletepage does explicitly use the page title.

However the API does support it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=paraminfo&modules=delete

So maybe we create a subtask to create a -pageid generator which works almost identically to -page

And once that is built, someone can enhance Page/Site methods to use pageid to delete if available (and supported by the site's API version?), and fallback to title if the pageid hasnt been loaded.

Mpaa mentioned this in T133209: create a -pageid generator which works almost identically to -page.Apr 20 2016, 7:57 PM

Mpaa added a subtask: T133209: create a -pageid generator which works almost identically to -page.

Change 285005 had a related patch set uploaded (by Mpaa):
site.py: delete page using pageid instead of title

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/285005

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Mpaa closed subtask T133209: create a -pageid generator which works almost identically to -page as Resolved.Aug 25 2016, 12:12 PM

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