Question

I found a nice script to import xml using powershell

http://slash4.de/tutorials/Automatic_mediawiki_page_import_powershell_script

Currently I don’t get them run. I’m sure, this is a problem with the permissons.

First I set the wiki to allow anybody to upload an import

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['import']       = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['importupload'] = true;

Then I get this error: Import failed: Loss of session data.

I try to figure out to pass the user and password to this line in powershell

$req.Credentials = [System.Net.CredentialCache]::DefaultCredentials

and changed it to

$req.Credentials = [System.Net.CredentialCache]::("user", "pass")

Import failed: Loss of session data. Again?

How can I pass the user/password to the website?

Answer 1

The Loss of session data error is generated when the edit token sent with the request does not have the expected value.

In the script you linked to, the $wikiURL string contains editToken=12345. That does not look like a valid MediaWiki edit token, so it’s not surprising that it will fail.

In current versions of MediaWiki, the edit token for non-logged-in users is always +\. You could try replacing 12345 in the script with that (or, rather, with its URL-encoded version %2B%5C) and see if it helps.