Thanks Brad and Owen
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Owen Davis <owen(a)wikia-inc.com> wrote:
It looks like that is just a template on the category
page: {{Cat
main|Cricket}} which is described here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cat_main
So it's just text on the page, not part of any database structure. In
other words, it's part of wikipedia's particular content/structure -- not
mediawiki -- so it's not going to be in the API. The primary data
structure for mediawiki is… unstructured text, which makes things like this
a bit of a challenge. :) You could pull the contents of the page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cricket?action=raw and look for
{{Cat
On Jun 20, 2013, at 1:38 PM, Pavan Kapanipathi <pavan(a)knoesis.org> wrote:
Is there a way (ex: API - params) to get the main article for a category
on wikipedia.
For example,
The Category page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cricket
has content "The main article for this
category<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Categories>is
*Cricket <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket>*."
I need to retrieve the article *Cricket. *
In the above example, It is just a co-incidence that the category name and
the article name are the same.
I looked through the API (
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php) but didnt
find anything relevant. Am I missing something?
Thanks and Regards,
Pavan Kapanipathi
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