When we specify a list of namespaces to fetch from, by default the MW API will not fetch from the default namespace, refered to as "(Main)" in the documentation:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Namespace#Built-in_namespaces I haven't found a way to address that "(Main)" namespace when getting the namespace ids: indeed, when listing namespaces, there is no "canonical" field for the main namespace, although there is a "*" field that is set to "" (empty). So in theory, we could specify the empty namespace to get the main namespace, but that would make specifying namespaces harder for the user: we would need to teach users about the "empty" default namespace. It would also make the code more complicated: we'd need to parse quotes in the configuration. So we simply override the query here and allow the user to specify "(Main)" since that is the publicly documented name. Signed-off-by: Antoine Beaupré <anar...@debian.org> --- contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki.perl | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki.perl b/contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki.perl index 5c85e64b6..2c2a7367b 100755 --- a/contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki.perl +++ b/contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki.perl @@ -264,9 +264,14 @@ sub get_mw_tracked_categories { sub get_mw_tracked_namespaces { my $pages = shift; foreach my $local_namespace (@tracked_namespaces) { - my $namespace_id = get_mw_namespace_id($local_namespace); + my ($namespace_id, $mw_pages); + if ($local_namespace eq "(Main)") { + $namespace_id = 0; + } else { + $namespace_id = get_mw_namespace_id($local_namespace); + } next if $namespace_id < 0; # virtual namespaces don't support allpages - my $mw_pages = $mediawiki->list( { + $mw_pages = $mediawiki->list( { action => 'query', list => 'allpages', apnamespace => $namespace_id, -- 2.11.0
