Hello - I am mainly working with wikipedia's api and am struggling to get accurate
data from wikipedia through the mediawiki API. Here is my example:
I am looking for an author by the name of Michael Jackson
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jackson_%28writer%29) however when I do an api
search for him I get redirected to Michael Jackson the pop star. I know this isn't an
easy problem to solve, however if I could specify additional information in the search
other than just a title, I could probably get pretty accurate. For example, I know this
guys birth year - it would be nice if I could do something like:
?title=michael jackson&birthdate=1942
Is there any way I could do this now? If not, any chance this might get included into the
mediawiki api in the future?
Thanks!
Andrew