[Mediawiki-api] Get the right article among disambiguation results

Adrien ANDRE adrien.andre.m at gmail.com
Fri Dec 16 14:34:25 UTC 2011


Hi,

would you know how i could use the API to get articles about musicians 
among disambiguation results ?

Examples are "Queen" and "Calvin Russell" which can refer to different 
things.

I guess i have to find a way to specify "Music", which is the name of a 
disambiguation section that often appear in those pages.

I've tryed several manners like:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&rvprop=content&format=xml&rvsection=0&titles=Queen
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=search&srlimit=5&format=xml&srsearch=Queen

But i don't see a way to do thing without excessive parsing and querying.


Thanks in advance,

regards,

Adrien



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