Mediawiki-api January 2008

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Retrieving image URLs?
by Kelly Jones 20 Jan '08

20 Jan '08

When I retrieve this page: http://wiki.lspace.org/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=Image:Cov… I get this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><api><query><normalized><n from="Image:Cover_The_Last_Hero.jpg" to="Image:Cover The Last Hero.jpg" /></normalized><pages><page pageid="4963" ns="6" title="Image:Cover The Last Hero.jpg"><revisions><revtimestamp="2008-01-20T13:54:58Z">Illustrated by Paul Kidby In other words, even though I requested the 'content' of the page, I don't get the URL to the image itself. By visiting the page normally: http://wiki.lspace.org/wiki/Image:Cover_The_Last_Hero.jpg I learned that the image URL is "http://wiki.lspace.org/uploads/4/4e/Cover_The_Last_Hero.jpg". Is there any way to obtain that URL using the Mediawiki API? -- We're just a Bunch Of Regular Guys, a collective group that's trying to understand and assimilate technology. We feel that resistance to new ideas and technology is unwise and ultimately futile.

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2 questions on the API
by Markos Gogoulos 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

Hi all, I've been using the API and so far I'm very pleased! I would like to know if it is possible to get the HTML version of an article directly , or if I have to get the wiki markup and convert it (which is what i am doing). Second question is if the API can return the 'search' results of a keyword that doesn't exist (when you enter a word for which there isn't an article yet, wikipedia returns a page with possible articles). Can the API provide me with the list? I've tried most things on the manual but none worked for me (so please don't respond rtfm :) ) Thanks for the great work to everyone involved with the API or reading the list, Markos -- Under the paving stones, the beach

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Protection according to 'rights' or 'groups'
by Bryan Tong Minh 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

Hello, I have a question between the difference between rights and groups in protection. When I request the protection of a page, for example <http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=info&inprop=protec…> the following is given for protection: <protection> <pr type="edit" level="autoconfirmed" expiry="infinity" /> <pr type="move" level="sysop" expiry="infinity" /> </protection> When I ask my userinfo <http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&meta=use…>: <userinfo name="Bryan"> <groups> <g>checkuser</g> <g>sysop</g> </groups> <rights> [...] <r>autoconfirmed</r> <r>skipcaptcha</r> <r>emailconfirmed</r> </rights> </userinfo> To abe able to edit the page, one needs to be 'autoconfirmed' which is a right. In order to be able to move a page, one needs to be 'sysop' which is a group. So can protection be set for both groups and rights? I'm asking because I need to check in my framework whether there are sufficient rights for an action. Bryan

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Parameter apprefix for allpages request
by Nicolas Vervelle 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

Hi, When looking at the documentation you get when callling the API, the apprefix parameter is documented as "Search for all page titles that begin with this value" but I don't get any result when I try to use it. For example, the following request returns zero pages : http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=allpages&apprefix=Bal&a… How do you use apprefix ? Nico

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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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Request for redirect info in backlinks query
by Nicolas Vervelle 04 Jan '08

04 Jan '08

Hi, (I also posted this at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:API:Query_-_Lists) Hi, I see that the backlinks query can already filter results depending if a backlink is a redirect or not (with blfiterredir) but I don't see a way to see in the result if backlinks are actually redirect or not. Could it be added to the API ? I need to retrieve all backlinks (recursively through redirects), so currently I call recursively the backlinks query and the redirect query. Retrieving the 2 informations in one query would be very useful for me to speed up requests ;) I quickly looked at the code of the backlinks query and it seems simple to do (I may be overlooking things because I don't know how the API is working) : * In run(), call $this->addField('page_is_redirect'); if needed. * In extractRowInfo(), add something like $vals['redirect'] = intval($row->page_is_redirect);. Thanks in advance for any answer :) Nico

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Marion Leclerc/France/Equant is out of the office. : Request for redirect info in backlinks query
by marion.leclerc＠orange-ftgroup.com 04 Jan '08

04 Jan '08

I will be out of the office starting 24/12/2007 and will not return until 07/01/2008. I will respond to your message when I return. For urgent problem on: - Reporting Projects, please contact 'XNMS-ACC Staff' team - Inventory & Resource Assignment Projects, please contact 'xnms-adm project' team

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