Mediawiki-api June 2008

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API Implementation - Critique
by Mark Henderson 20 Feb '09

20 Feb '09

I need some help - I've implemented the API using CodeIgniter for a clients site and everything works on the site except for the wiki pages, which are sluggish. Here is my controller which lists the function calls being made and in what order: http://pastebin.com/m4021c1a7 And here is my model where the actual API calls are made: http://pastebin.com/dd7c504c The api.php file exists on the same server that is making the calls, so it should be instant but the pages are so very slow, and only in the instance of using the MW API. Any help or insight anybody could give would be MUCH appreciated. - Mark

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exturlusage query protocol speficiation not functional
by MinuteElectron 14 Jul '08

14 Jul '08

Hello, Earlier today i tried: http://test.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=exturlusage&eulimit=5… Unfortunately this still shows irc:// links, which I don't believe it should - since I specified euprotocol. Am I doing something incorrectly or is this a bug? Thanks, MinuteElectron.

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advanced search method
by Andrew Nagy 26 Jun '08

26 Jun '08

Hello - I am mainly working with wikipedia's api and am struggling to get accurate data from wikipedia through the mediawiki API. Here is my example: I am looking for an author by the name of Michael Jackson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jackson_%28writer%29) however when I do an api search for him I get redirected to Michael Jackson the pop star. I know this isn't an easy problem to solve, however if I could specify additional information in the search other than just a title, I could probably get pretty accurate. For example, I know this guys birth year - it would be nice if I could do something like: ?title=michael jackson&birthdate=1942 Is there any way I could do this now? If not, any chance this might get included into the mediawiki api in the future? Thanks! Andrew

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Perl MediaWiki::API module
by Jools Smyth 25 Jun '08

25 Jun '08

Hi, I hope this is allowed here, but I have recently written a Perl module to interface with the MediaWiki API, and am after users to try it and let me know what works/doesn't etc. The module is not on cpan yet (Awaiting an account), but can be downloaded from http://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/User:BuZz/MediaWiki::API Thanks for listening! Best Regards Jools

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BREAKING CHANGE: more useful behavior when using md5 together with appendtext/prependtext in action=edit
by Roan Kattouw 15 Jun '08

15 Jun '08

As of r36306 [1], the behavior of action=edit's md5 parameter in conjunction with the appendtext and prependtext parameters has changed. Instead of requiring the MD5 hash of the entire article text (which makes appendtext and prependtext kind of useless), the md5 parameter now requires the hash of the concatenation of the prependtext and the appendtext parameter. For example, if you set prependtext=Foo&appendtext=bar , you'll need to set the md5 parameter to the result of md5('Foobar') . Roan Kattouw (Catrope) [1] http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki?view=rev&revision=36306

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Fatal error: Class 'ApiParse' not found in ApiMain.php on line 333
by Jeremy Byrne 09 Jun '08

09 Jun '08

Hi All, I'm consistently getting the error in the subject line (or close variants--some actions get further than executeAction() before throwing a "Class not found") when attempting to use _any_ API action other than query (which works fine). I've tried it on two 1.11 installs on machines with totally different php setups. I'm using repo directory revision 35899 of the API. Thanks for any light you can shed on this baffling and frustrating problem. CYa, JEREMY

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Write API enabled on test wiki
by Bryan Tong Minh 05 Jun '08

05 Jun '08

Brion just enabled the write api on test wiki. See <http://test.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&meta=sitein…> Bryan

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Re: [Mediawiki-api] [Wikitech-l] API action=edit problem
by MinuteElectron 05 Jun '08

05 Jun '08

Marco Schuster wrote: > I suspect it are the +es in the "text" field, AFAIR these should be %20, > right? Perhaps; " " may be encoded as "+" in URL query strings, and most URL encoding functions do this. But in post strings maybe "+" is not acceptable. I will look to see if your suggestion fixes this. MinuteElectron.

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Bug on querying revisions
by S. Nunes 03 Jun '08

03 Jun '08

Hi, It seems that there is a bug on the MediaWiki API regarding querying old revisions. The following call to the API should return the first revision made to the "Tamilla_Abasova" article. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&rvprop=ids&rv… However, instead of returning 37099272 (the correct answer) the value returned is 216581660 (the latest revision). This problem seems to happen only when the article has a small number of revisions. Is this a known problem? Where should I submit this bug report to? -- Sérgio Nunes

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