I'm sorry, I didn't mean to criticize. What I was trying to do is to validate
that list=backlinks and prop=categories are querying for the same relationship if the
backlinks namespace is set for categories, using blnamespace=14. If they were two ways to
query for the same relationship between pages, then the results should be the same, but
they are not.
I've been able to verify that prop=categories returns the correct relationship,
because the inverse (list=categorymembers) returns the inverse result. If prop=categories
indicates that A is a parent of B, then list=categorymembers correctly indicates that B is
a child of A.
So what I'm trying to do is find the same relationship for portal pages
(namespace=100). list=categorymembers also correctly returns the children who are
portals, but I don't know how to find the parents that are portals.
Thanks in advance,
Robert
-----Original Message-----
From: Andre Engels [mailto:andreengels@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2011 10:15 AM
To: Robert Crowe
Cc: MediaWiki API announcements & discussion
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-api] Portals vs categories
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Robert Crowe <robert(a)ourwebhome.com> wrote:
Thanks André, but after testing it seems that
backlinks returns something else. For example this query:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Category:Voltaire…
Returns:
<query>
<pages>
<page pageid="3465227" ns="14"
title="Category:Voltaire">
<categories>
<cl ns="14" title="Category:Categories named after French
people" />
<cl ns="14" title="Category:Categories named after
philosophers" />
<cl ns="14" title="Category:Categories named after
writers" />
</categories>
</page>
</pages>
</query>
But this query:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=backlinks&bltit…
Returns:
<query>
<backlinks />
</query>
If I just use "Voltaire" instead of "Category:Voltaire" then I think
it's looking at a different page, right? The results are different, and don't
match the first query results:
<query>
<backlinks>
<bl pageid="3465227" ns="14"
title="Category:Voltaire" />
<bl pageid="15582893" ns="14" title="Category:Novels by
Voltaire" />
</backlinks>
</query>
You criticize my request because another request does not give the
same result as a third request... I understand less and less of what
you are trying to do.
--
André Engels, andreengels(a)gmail.com