mediawiki-title

Mediawiki title normalization, that conforms to the normalization rules used in MediaWiki Core. In general, the page title is converted to the mediawiki DB key format by trimming spaces, replacing whitespace symbols to underscores and applying wiki-specific capitalization rules. The namespace name is converted to a localized canonical name.

Classes

Namespace

Title

TitleError

Typedefs

SiteInfo : Object

Information about a wikimedia site required to make correct normalization. This information matches the format used by the PHP API response, however not all of the fields are required for library operation.

The list of required properties is documented here, others can be removed.

Namespace

Kind: global class

• Namespace
  • new Namespace(id, siteInfo)
  • instance
    • .getId() ⇒ number
    • .isMedia() ⇒ boolean
    • .isSpecial() ⇒ boolean
    • .isMain() ⇒ boolean
    • .isTalk() ⇒ boolean
    • .isUserTalk() ⇒ boolean
    • .getNormalizedText() ⇒ string
    • .equals(ns) ⇒ boolean
  • static
    • .fromText(text, siteInfo) ⇒ Namespace | undefined
    • .main(siteInfo) ⇒ Namespace

new Namespace(id, siteInfo)

Represents a wiki namespace

Param	Type	Description
id	number	The namespace identifier
siteInfo	SiteInfo	The site metadata information.

namespace.getId() ⇒ number

Returns the numeric namespace identifier

Kind: instance method of Namespace

namespace.isMedia() ⇒ boolean

Checks whether namespace is Media

Kind: instance method of Namespace

namespace.isSpecial() ⇒ boolean

Checks whether namespace is Special

Kind: instance method of Namespace

namespace.isMain() ⇒ boolean

Checks whether namespace is Main

Kind: instance method of Namespace

namespace.isTalk() ⇒ boolean

Checks whether namespace is Talk

Kind: instance method of Namespace

namespace.isUserTalk() ⇒ boolean

Checks whether namespace is UserTalk

Kind: instance method of Namespace

namespace.getNormalizedText() ⇒ string

Get the canonical name string for this namespace.

Kind: instance method of Namespace

namespace.equals(ns) ⇒ boolean

Determines whether this namespace is equal to the given ns, based on the numeric namespace identifier.

Kind: instance method of Namespace

Namespace.fromText(text, siteInfo) ⇒ Namespace | undefined

Creates a namespace instance from namespace text or a namespace alias

Kind: static method of Namespace
Returns: Namespace | undefined - a namespace or undefined if it wasn't found.

Param	Type	Description
text	string	Namespace name text.
siteInfo	SiteInfo	the site information.

Namespace.main(siteInfo) ⇒ Namespace

Creates a namespace object for a Main namespace.

Kind: static method of Namespace

Param	Type	Description
siteInfo	SiteInfo	the site information.

Title

Kind: global class

• Title
  • new Title(key, namespace, siteInfo, [fragment])
  • instance
    • .getPrefixedDBKey() ⇒ string
    • .getFragment() ⇒ string | undefined
    • .getNamespace() ⇒ Namespace
    • .equals(title) ⇒ boolean
  • static
    • .newFromText(title, siteInfo, defaultNs) ⇒ Title

new Title(key, namespace, siteInfo, [fragment])

Creates a new title object with article the dbKey and namespace

Param	Type	Description
key	string	The article title in a form of the dbKey.
namespace	Namespace | number	The article namespace.
siteInfo	SiteInfo	The site metadata.
[fragment]	string	The fragment of the title.

title.getPrefixedDBKey() ⇒ string

Returns the normalized article title and namespace.

Kind: instance method of Title

title.getFragment() ⇒ string | undefined

Returns the normalized fragment part of the original title

Kind: instance method of Title

title.getNamespace() ⇒ Namespace

Returns the namespace of an article.

Kind: instance method of Title

title.equals(title2) ⇒ boolean

Determines whether this title is equals to the given title2, based on comparing namespace and key.

Kind: instance method of Title

Title.newFromText(title, siteInfo, defaultNs) ⇒ Title

Normalize a title according to the rules of siteInfo

Kind: static method of Title
Returns: Title - The resulting title object.

Param	Type	Description
title	string	The page title to normalize.
siteInfo	SiteInfo	The site information.

TitleError

Kind: global exception class

• TitleError

TitleError should be considered an opaque exception class, which is thrown by the various methods in this library. It is exported so that it can be identified if caught by the caller.

SiteInfo : Object

Information about a wikimedia site required to make correct normalization. This information matches the format used by the PHP API response, however not all of the fields are required for library operation.

The list of required properties is documented here, others can be removed.

Kind: global typedef
Properties

Name	Type	Description
general	Object	General information about the site
general.lang	string	Site language code.
general.legaltitlechars	string	A perl-like regex for characters allowed in the page title.
general.case	string	Whether to capitalize the first letter of the title. Could be obtained from the general section of the siteInfo php API response.
namespaces	Object	Site namespaces info in the same format as returned by PHP api.
namespacealiases	Object	Site namespace aliases in the same format as returned by PHP api.
specialpagealiases	Object	Site special page aliases in the same format as returned by PHP api.

Usage

The library synchronously returns a normalized title. Wiki-specific rules should be fetched from the MediaWiki API, and cached outside of the library. The description of the required properties is available in the SiteInfo object docs.

var result = Title.newFromText('some_title', {
            general: {
            lang: 'en',
            legaltitlechars: " %!\"$&'()*,\\-.\\/0-9:;=?@A-Z\\\\^_`a-z~\\x80-\\xFF+",
            case: 'first-letter'
        },
    namespaces: {
        "0": {
            id: 0,
            case: "first-letter",
            content: "",
            "*": ""
            },
        }
});
console.log(result.getPrefixedDBKey());

Bug reporting

For bug reporting please use Phabricator and mark the bugs with Services label or contact directly in IRC in the #wikimedia-services channel.