Virtual namespaces do not correspond to pages in the database and are
automatically generated by MediaWiki. It makes little sense,
therefore, to fetch pages from those namespaces and the MW API doesn't
support listing those pages.
According to the documentation, those virtual namespaces are currently
"Special" (-1) and "Media" (-2) but we treat all negative namespaces
as "virtual" as a future-proofing mechanism.
Signed-off-by: Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki.perl | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki.perl b/contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki.perl
index e7616e1a2..5c85e64b6 100755
--- a/contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki.perl
+++ b/contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki.perl
@@ -264,10 +264,12 @@ 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);
+ next if $namespace_id < 0; # virtual namespaces don't support allpages
my $mw_pages = $mediawiki->list( {
action => 'query',
list => 'allpages',
- apnamespace => get_mw_namespace_id($local_namespace),
+ apnamespace => $namespace_id,
aplimit => 'max' } )
|| die $mediawiki->{error}->{code} . ': '
. $mediawiki->{error}->{details} . "\n";
--
2.11.0
