[digiKam-users] The Mediawiki upload plugin is broken, fixing it should not be difficult

[Maik Qualmann]

The digiKam WikiMedia uploader is in progress, I can already upload images 
again.

Maik

Am Dienstag, 24. Mai 2022, 21:15:27 CEST schrieb FRF:
> Hi all,
> 
> digikam's Mediawiki upload plugin is broken since ca. October 2021: You can
> log in at the site, but you cannot upload files. There's a bug report at
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=444265, but apparently it's not a
> priority since replies there are rather sparse.
> 
> The reason is most likely that some Mediawiki API parameters that were
> deprecated in 2014 were finally removed in Ocotber 2021, see
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.37/Deprecation_of_legacy_API_tok
> en_parameters. The Mediawiki upload plugin seems to have been written in
> 2012, so it is most likely still using the old API parameters that don't
> work anymore.
> 
> My uneducated guess is that the fix is probably replacing something like
> "action=query&list=users&ustoken=userrights" with another something like
> "action=query&meta=tokens&type=userrights". But I'm not actually a
> developer or programmer, I don't know how to do these things.
> 
> So my question is: Would someone who actually IS a programmer/developer take
> a look at this and preferably fix it? My profuse thanks go out in advance
> to anybody who does ;-)
> 
> Regards
> 
> FRF