Hi,
I am writing a mobile client that can show wikipedia content. My
approach is to download the raw media-wiki markup instead of the
generated html. This allows me more control and I avoid using a html
parser/viewer.
The approach is quite successful except for when I encounter images.
In the markup I can see something like;
File:1945-P-Jefferson-War-Nickel-Reverse.JPG
I use the API to fetch some metadata;
en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=imageinfo \
&iilimit=1&format=xml&iiprop=dimensions%7Cmime&titles=[foo]
The piece of the puzzle I am still missing is how to find out the
actual download URL for any given image.
I've seen images start with;
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6d/
and with;
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/
But I don't really understand how to decide what url to prefix to my
image-name.
Anyone can shed some light on this?
Thanks!
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Thomas Zander