Expose cached query page outputs to lua
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	Jan 11 2024, 5:45 PM

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The cached output of the various MediaWiki query pages like Special:UnusedTemplates, Special:GadgetUsage, etc should be exposed to lua. The Action API already exposes these through action=query&list=querypage so the data is already available in a machine-readable format.

Quoting from https://blog.bawolff.net/2024/01/imagining-future-mediawiki.html:

Results [of querying] should be usable for futher processing
e.g. You should be able to use the result inside a lua module and format it in arbitrary ways

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Combined with the editnotice or PageNotice systems, this could be used on JS/CSS pages to notify viewers/editors of the number of users loading the page (via data from GadgetUsage).
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		Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
		Open	Feature	None	T50176 Requested Scribunto/Lua built-in methods/functions (tracking)
		Open	Feature	None	T354890 Expose cached query page outputs to lua

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SD0001 created this task.Jan 11 2024, 5:45 PM

Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptJan 11 2024, 5:45 PM

Related/near duplicate: T78171

Oh, and we already have https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:GUS2Wiki/Script whose output could be parsed by a Lua module to implement the specific feature you provided.

Pppery added a parent task: T50176: Requested Scribunto/Lua built-in methods/functions (tracking).Jan 11 2024, 5:52 PM

Jack_who_built_the_house subscribed.Feb 21 2024, 1:32 AM

Apart from query pages, this would be as beneficial for special pages like ListUsers (which is (somewhat) T85419: User groups should be exposed to Scribunto) and other pages that are includable – just their output not accessible. Instead of manually updating all relevant Project namespace pages or templates each time a flag is granted or revoked, these pages should be updated automatically from a single source of truth.

Jack_who_built_the_house added a comment.Feb 21 2024, 1:45 AM

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Jack_who_built_the_house added a project: MediaWiki-Special-pages.Feb 21 2024, 2:41 AM

Jack_who_built_the_house mentioned this in T358075: Transcludable special pages should offer wikitext when transcluded.Feb 21 2024, 2:43 AM

See LuaSpecials.

Nardog subscribed.May 7 2024, 10:45 AM