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