The API request to convert the citation to wikitext is failing with "code":"missingparam","info":"The \"page\" parameter must be set."

Maybe caused by https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor/+/587739?

In fact, we can’t add any template either (I think it is the same bug).

I think this is different from T255834: Citations can't be inserted in the 2017WTE

In T255785#6236557, @Whatamidoing-WMF wrote:

I think this is different from T255834: Citations can't be inserted in the 2017WTE

How so? Seems the same to me.

In T255785#6236391, @Pols12 wrote:

In fact, we can’t add any template either (I think it is the same bug).

Agreed, it can't seem to insert any template, looks like the same bug to me.

In T255785#6236343, @matmarex wrote:

The API request to convert the citation to wikitext is failing with "code":"missingparam","info":"The \"page\" parameter must be set."

Maybe caused by https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor/+/587739?

I've now tested this locally, reverting this edit fixes the problem.

Change 606680 had a related patch set uploaded (by Mvolz; owner: Mvolz):
[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Revert "Allow generic params to be passed to getWikitextFragment"

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/606680

Change 606680 abandoned by Mvolz:
Revert "Allow generic params to be passed to getWikitextFragment"

Reason:
nvm i don't think it was this after all

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/606680

Change 606680 restored by Mvolz:
Revert "Allow generic params to be passed to getWikitextFragment"

Reason:
nvm this does fix it ^-^

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/606680

Deployment timing
This patch should be deployed during one of Monday, 22-June's backport windows. [1]

1. https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Monday,_June_22

Change 606680 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Revert "Allow generic params to be passed to getWikitextFragment"

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/606680

So, that basically means that we won't be able to edit properly until next week?

In T255785#6241455, @XanonymusX wrote:

So, that basically means that we won't be able to edit properly until next week?

Unfortunately, yes. Here is why this is so:

1. Today, is a Foundation Holiday which means there is limited staff availability to deploy changes
2. We could deploy an Emergency fix [i] which would require an engineer on our team to do so; however, I do not think this issues qualifies as an "emergency" for the following reasons:
   • While some edits are prevented from being made, I do not think edits themselves are being lost
   • The number of edits potentially affected is relatively low (~2% of edits are made using NWE [ii]).
   • I think we can assume the people using NWE who are affected by this issue are familiar enough with the other editing interfaces to have the knowledge and motivation to switch to them when they realize NWE does not allow them to do what they are trying to do

i. https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Emergencies

ii. Edits made with NWE
https://superset.wikimedia.org/r/244

[OT - Sorry] @ppelberg how do you get that awesome graph? The link asks for login...?

Hm, the thing is: the main reason why people use the NWE (in my experience) is exactly the functionality that is broken now. So switching back to the old editor does not solve anything in this regard (while switching to VE does, oddly enough). Right now I have to start off with VE, insert templates and references, then switch to NWE and copypaste everything in place. Very unfortunate, but I get that the number of users affected is indeed pretty low.

Thanks for the fix. I agree with @XanonymusX that this is probably one of the main reasons for using the new wikitext editor. But I can wait patiently :)

I got excited for a second a few minutes ago, thinking I could add references again, after 3, nearly 4 days of being unable to, as I successfully added a couple of references in visual mode. However then I realised I originally tried to add references in source mode to a table and an infobox, so I tried to insert a random link to an infobox to test it out, and it failed to insert.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Vopo92swmcdqr2fp

Change 606995 had a related patch set uploaded (by Mvolz; owner: Mvolz):
[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@wmf/1.35.0-wmf.37] Revert "Allow generic params to be passed to getWikitextFragment"

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/606995

Change 606995 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@wmf/1.35.0-wmf.37] Revert "Allow generic params to be passed to getWikitextFragment"

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/606995

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2020-06-22T11:50:07Z] <urbanecm@deploy1001> Synchronized php-1.35.0-wmf.37/extensions/VisualEditor/modules/: Backport: rEVED0a080664eb1f: Revert "Allow generic params to be passed to getWikitextFragment" (T255785) (duration: 00m 58s)

This should be fixed now.

Confirmed, it's fixed. Thank you!