Add the created page id to API action=upload output (instead of just the title)
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	Dec 27 2020, 12:11 AM

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I noticed that the MediaWiki's action=upload actually returns lot of interesting things (like my userid, image width/height, ..) but I'm somehow surprised to do not see the pageid. This would be expected during a page creation via an upload.

In theory it should be easy to expand the API response to eventually provide it - if known. Pratically, I think that the pageid is lost during some underlying calls and this may need a refactor.

To give an eye on the current implementation of ApiUpload#performUpload() see here:

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/source/mediawiki/browse/master/includes/api/ApiUpload.php;abdc94a3da1009984cbbd00957f746ffb87b4a2c$804-901

At the time of writing this is what the action=upload returns when creating a page like I have done in https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:PermaLink/521509832 with action=upload, comment=.., text=.. and filename=..:

P13630 MediaWiki API action=upload creation

1	{
2	"upload": {
3	"result": "Success",
4	"filename": "Berna._Veduta_del_centro_storico_(DOI_21471).jpg",
5	"imageinfo": {
6	"timestamp": "2020-12-27T00:20:38Z",
7	"user": "Valerio Bozzolan bot",
8	"userid": 6711894,
9	"size": 1337746,
10	"width": 3000,
11	"height": 2525,
12	"parsedcomment": "Bot: <a href=\"\\/wiki\\/Commons:Bots\\/Requests\\/Valerio_Bozzolan_bot_(6)\" title=\"Commons:Bots\\/Requests\\/Valerio Bozzolan bot (6)\">authorized import from Academy of architecture Library of Mendrisio<\\/a>",
13	"comment": "Bot: [[Commons:Bots\\/Requests\\/Valerio Bozzolan bot (6)\|authorized import from Academy of architecture Library of Mendrisio]]",
14	"html": "<div>\n<div class=\"thumb tright\"><div class=\"thumbinner\" style=\"width:182px;\"><a href=\"\\/w\\/index.php?title=Special:Upload&wpDestFile=Berna._Veduta_del_centro_storico_(DOI_21471).jpg\" class=\"new\" title=\"File:Berna. Veduta del centro storico (DOI 21471).jpg\">File:Berna. Veduta del centro storico (DOI 21471).jpg<\\/a> <div class=\"thumbcaption\">Existing file<\\/div><\\/div><\\/div>\n<p><span id=\"wpUploadWarningFileexists\">A file with this name already exists; please check <b><a class=\"mw-selflink selflink\">the existing file<\\/a><\\/b> if you are not sure whether you want to change it. Please choose another filename, unless you are uploading a technically improved version of the same file. <br \\/>Do not overwrite an image with a different one of the same topic (see <a href=\"\\/wiki\\/Commons:File_naming\" title=\"Commons:File naming\">file naming<\\/a>).<\\/span>\n<\\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\\/div>\n<\\/div>",
15	"canonicaltitle": "File:Berna. Veduta del centro storico (DOI 21471).jpg",
16	"url": "https:\\/\\/upload.wikimedia.org\\/wikipedia\\/commons\\/e\\/ef\\/Berna._Veduta_del_centro_storico_%28DOI_21471%29.jpg",
17	"descriptionurl": "https:\\/\\/commons.wikimedia.org\\/wiki\\/File:Berna._Veduta_del_centro_storico_(DOI_21471).jpg",
18	"sha1": "1d63427f073455b9557c6232bf4e86e87db1650e",
19	"metadata": [
20	{
21	"name": "MEDIAWIKI_EXIF_VERSION",
22	"value": 2
23	}
24	],
25	"commonmetadata": [],
26	"extmetadata": {
27	"DateTime": {
28	"value": "2020-12-27 00:20:38",
29	"source": "mediawiki-metadata",
30	"hidden": ""
31	},
32	"ObjectName": {
33	"value": "Berna. Veduta del centro storico (DOI 21471)",
34	"source": "mediawiki-metadata",
35	"hidden": ""
36	},
37	"CommonsMetadataExtension": {
38	"value": 1.2,
39	"source": "extension",
40	"hidden": ""
41	},
42	"Categories": {
43	"value": "",
44	"source": "commons-categories",
45	"hidden": ""
46	},
47	"Assessments": {
48	"value": "",
49	"source": "commons-categories",
50	"hidden": ""
51	}
52	},
53	"mime": "image\\/jpeg",
54	"mediatype": "BITMAP",
55	"bitdepth": 8
56	}
57	}
58	}

Well, intuitively someone may expect the pageid exposed as upload->pageid as well as we are exposing the filename as upload->filename but it would be nice to request some comments about this.

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Reedy renamed this task from The API action=upload may return the created pageid (instead of just the title) to Add the created page id to API action=upload output (instead of just the title).Dec 27 2020, 1:02 AM

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