Mediawiki-api December 2007

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MediaWiki API and Chinese language variants
by Jan Hecking 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Hi, Is it possible to retrieve content in different Chinese language variants using the /w/api.php API? There doesn't seem to be a variant or language parameter that would allow selecting a variant like "zh-tw" or "zh-hk". Is there some other way to do this? I checked the auto-generated API docs and the API:* articles but could not find any hint on how to do this. I'm using an API call like this to retrieve the article content: http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?redirects&action=query&prop=revisions&rvp… Thanks, Jan

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Retrieving Size - bug?
by S. Nunes 04 Jan '08

04 Jan '08

Hi, While using the Wikipedia API I noticed an odd behavior. It seems that I'm only able to retrive the size of a revision in some revisions. Works fine: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Porto&prop=revisions&… Size does not shows up although the call is the same: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Porto&prop=revisions&… It seems like a bug. Is it? I do know if Wikipedia is using the latest version of the Wikimedia API. Maybe this is already corrected in the development repository. Btw, size is given in bytes. Correct? Can you please comment on this issue? Thanks! -- Sérgio Nunes

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What if an API is not present? (e.g: wikitravel)
by Ehud Rosenberg 23 Dec '07

23 Dec '07

Hi everyone, Hopefully someone can give me a hand here... I'm looking for the mediawiki api which should be located at http://wikitravel.org/w/api.php, but can't seem to find it. Also, googling showed nothing about the subject. could it be that wikitravel does not have an API? has it been removed? is there an alternate location? Thanks! Ehud <mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org>

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Getting all categories
by Ian Cabell 10 Dec '07

10 Dec '07

Is there not an "action=query&list=allcategories"? Any plans for development? -- ---------------------------- Ian Cabell RadiantWeb Services ( 877 ) 406 - 6272 [toll free] ian(a)radiantweb.net http://www.radiantweb.net "There is more than one right way .. to make it perfect!"

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API - Possibility to create/edit pages
by marion.leclerc＠orange-ftgroup.com 07 Dec '07

07 Dec '07

Roan, As far as I have understood, the API should permit to create/edit pages as described in the proposal found at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Edit_-_Create%26Edit_pages In the last version of API developped, I did not found this functionnality. Is it planned to develop it ? If yes, when ? Thanks for your help. Marion Leclerc

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Rendering Issue
by Scott Wilfong 06 Dec '07

06 Dec '07

The following wiki markup: [[Image:Michelino DanteAndHisPoem.jpg|thumb|right|250px|''La commedia illumina Firenze'' in the dome of [[Santa Maria del Fiore]]]] is rendering using the API function (api.php?action=render&text=[[Image:Michelino DanteAndHisPoem.jpg|thumb|right|250px|''La commedia illumina Firenze'' in the dome of [[Santa Maria del Fiore]]]]) as follows: <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:252px;"><a href="<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Michelino_DanteAndHisPoem.jpg"">htt p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Michelino_DanteAndHisPoem.jpg"</a> class="image" title="La commedia illumina Firenze in the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore"><img alt="La commedia illumina Firenze in the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore" src="<a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e2/Michelino_DanteAnd HisPoem.jpg/250px-Michelino_DanteAndHisPoem.jpg"">http://upload.wikimedia.or g/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e2/Michelino_DanteAndHisPoem.jpg/250px-Michelino_Dant eAndHisPoem.jpg"</a> width="250" height="203" border="0" class="thumbimage" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify" style="float:right"><a href="<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Michelino_DanteAndHisPoem.jpg"">htt p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Michelino_DanteAndHisPoem.jpg"</a> class="internal" title="Enlarge"><img src="/skins-1.5/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15" height="11" alt="" /></a></div><i>La commedia illumina Firenze</i> in the dome of <a href="<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Maria_del_Fiore"">http://en.wikiped ia.org/wiki/Santa_Maria_del_Fiore"</a> title="Santa Maria del Fiore">Santa Maria del Fiore</a></div></div></div> <FONT face=Arial size=3>Notice that the first <a> tag has an <a> tag in it's href attribute. This cannot be right. Is this a bug?</FONT> <FONT face=Arial size=3></FONT> <FONT face=Arial size=3>Scott</FONT> <FONT face=Arial></FONT> <FONT face=Arial></FONT> <FONT face=Arial></FONT> <FONT face=Arial></FONT>

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ANNOUNCEMENT: APIedit branch discontinued
by Roan Kattouw 06 Dec '07

06 Dec '07

Because the apiedit branch [1] has been merged with trunk [2], it will no longer be maintained. All changes to the relevant API modules should happen in trunk, and the apiedit branch will shortly be deleted. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) P.S.: Sorry for cross-posting [1] http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/branches/apiedit/ [2] http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki?view=rev&revision=28051

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Re: [Mediawiki-api] ANNOUNCEMENT: APIedit branch discontinued
by Roan Kattouw 05 Dec '07

05 Dec '07

Yuri Astrakhan schreef: > Congrats :) > Thanks. It took some 5 months to get the whole thing done, and I'm glad it's more or less finished now. When I have more time (in a few weeks) I'll look into the apiedit_vodafone branch, which has been inactive for quite a while if memory serves. BTW, the apiedit branch has actually been deleted now, in r28187. Roan Kattouw (Catrope)

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Disabled Login Tokens
by Eddie Roger 04 Dec '07

04 Dec '07

I was looking through changes to the apiedit branch and saw a revert to disable login tokens. I read the note in SVN as to why, but I don't understand the benefit of just using cookies versus using tokens, especially for robots. I'm not questioning Brion's decision, just wondering if there was explanation. Also, I don't understand how to implement his suggestion - is that just with cookies now? Thanks. Eddie

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Getting differences between revisions
by S. Nunes 01 Dec '07

01 Dec '07

Hi, I'm trying to use the Mediawiki API to get information about revisions to a given page. I understand that it is possible to get the entire contents of a given revision. However I would like to know if it is possible to only get the diffs introduced in a given revision? This would result in a reduced bandwidth consumption. My goal is to get the most frequently used terms in a set of revisions to a given page. For instance, for the web page Wikipedia what were the most common terms in all revisions between 2007-09 and 2007-11. Thanks in advance for any comments on this issue, -- Sérgio Nunes

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