Feature request: Manage protected and special pages via PR

[doggobit0]

In the spirit of having a community-driven wiki, I think the ability to manage protected (e.g. Main page) and special (e.g. MediaWiki:common.css) pages via pull requests would be a great feature.

This could be in the form of having some of these files in a folder in the repo, having some sort of nix-based config that points to what pages they belong to, and a bot-based automation to deploy the changes once the PR is merged.

I would be more than happy if the community agrees to try my hand at implementing this, since it would be one of those nix use cases where it needs to talk to external tools (so in essence side effects), but I would almost certainly need guindance on how to do it :)

[Lassulus]

sounds like an interesting idea, I sadly lack a bit the time to manage this a lot. If we define the content in a nix file we can have an activationScript (or a systemd service) which just deploys the page. I can help brainstorm this a bit if you want (either in chat or in a jitsi session).

[doggobit0]

Yep, I'd be more than happy to. Want to coordinate on Matrix for a time? Or should I schedule a more public meeting for next weekend?

[Lassulus]

sure, a public meeting next weekend sounds good to me. I should find the time at any time after 10AM

[doggobit0]

Sunday @ 13:00 UTC (14:00 Berlin)?

[Lassulus]

we are in DST, so these times don't align, but either will work (just tell me which :))

[doggobit0]

Haha that's true, gosh I wish we got rid of DST already :)). 12:00 UTC, 13:00 BST, 14:00 CET :)

[nixos-discourse]

This issue has been mentioned on NixOS Discourse. There might be relevant details there:

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/community-calendar/18589/213

[Mic92]

Can you check? #263
Only tested in nixos vm tests so far.

[doggobit0]

@Mic92 I'm very much in the beginning of my Nix journey, but if I read the PR correctly, you're proposing doing this via a systemd PHP service that pulls the changes, and edits each page found in the pages folder?

That looks pretty neat, and probably would work more than fine.

I was hoping we could do this a bit more Nix-native by having the changes be pushed through a build, but I'm not going to let the perfect be the enemy of the good :)). Happy to look over it tomorrow during the meeting.

[Mic92]

What is the "build" supposed to do with the page? It takes all pages found in the repository.

[doggobit0]

What is the "build" supposed to do with the page?

Call the MediaWiki API

But as I said, I'm not picky about the solution :), we can look over it during the meeting. I am still hoping to steal some craft from @Lassulus learning about how to use activation scripts even if we go with the systemd approach though :))

[doggobit0]

I'm not sure how Jitsi meets are usually set up, but: https://meet.jit.si/NixOSWikiJuneMeeting :)