Mediawiki-api September 2008

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API to access viewcount?
by Jim Tittsler 30 Apr '09

30 Apr '09

How can I access the 'viewcount' property of a page?

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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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GPS/GEO API
by Kevin Yang 02 Oct '08

02 Oct '08

Hello , i am trying to develop a mobile wikipedia product which utilize the GPS data. I noticed that google maps have a button "more -> wikipedia" which will show wikipedia articles near a specific location . I am curious how that works? Any tips/answers are highly appreciated. Thanks.

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Re: [Mediawiki-api] Problem with action=edit using PHP
by Marcus Ramsden 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Right I think I know where this error is coming up now. I still tried the approach in XML and unfortunately it was the same story with a 1 being returned. Also my script throws out some output so here it is; POST Data: action=login&lgname=***&lgpassword=***&format=xml POST Result: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><api><login result="Success" lguserid="***" lgusername="***" lgtoken="d6ef5e4f6baaa4a7b3468a1eac5160b3" cookieprefix="ibwiki_" sessionid="***" /></api> GET Data: action=query&intoken=edit&titles=BotTest&prop=info&format=xml GET Result: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><api><query><pages><page ns="0" title="BotTest" missing="" edittoken="771ceb39a33469b2a87873ef26b75b82+\" /></pages></query></api> POST Data: action=edit&title=BotTest&summary=Page+created+by+the+IBWikiBot.&text=This+i s+some+test+content+added+by+the+IBWikiBot.&recreate=1&token=771ceb39a33469b 2a87873ef26b75b82%2B%5C&notminor=1&bot=1&format=xml POST Result: 1 Just to clarify that the data lines show any parameters being passed while the result lines show the XML responses. Onto where the error is actually occurring. Hopefully I am not going too off-topic on this list. I notice in my PHP error log that some of my extension functions are dying with a fatal error when the edit request occurs. I know that these functions all run successfully when a standard request from a browser is made. The specific error is that it appears that wiki global $wgTitle does not have a value in it. Is there a way to check where the request originates from, be it the browser or a request through the API. If I could ascertain this then I would be able to instruct my extension to not register any functions which rely on some of the wiki globals being set. Marcus -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-api-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-api-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Roan Kattouw Sent: 30 September 2008 15:00 To: MediaWiki API announcements & discussion Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-api] Problem with action=edit using PHP Marcus Ramsden schreef: > Hi Roan, > > I have put the edit token through the php urlencode function which converts > the token to the following format, 771ceb39a33469b2a87873ef26b75b82%2B%5C. > Looks good. Of course the built-in urlencode() function is the way to go, hadn't thought about that when I wrote my first message. > This has stopped the invalid token error being sent. That probably means it's correct. > But now there is > another issue. > Rather than the response being the standard response the API is responding > only with a 1. As opposed to the appropriate PHP data structure. That's very weird. Please do the following things: * check whether the edit got through; * try using a different format like XML or JSON and see whether they return the right data; * tell me which wiki you're running this bot against (if it's not Wikipedia or another WMF wiki, also include the version you see in Special:Version) Roan Kattouw (Catrope) _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api

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Re: [Mediawiki-api] Problem with action=edit using PHP
by Marcus Ramsden 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Hi Roan, I have put the edit token through the php urlencode function which converts the token to the following format, 771ceb39a33469b2a87873ef26b75b82%2B%5C. This has stopped the invalid token error being sent. But now there is another issue. Rather than the response being the standard response the API is responding only with a 1. As opposed to the appropriate PHP data structure. Marcus -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-api-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-api-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Roan Kattouw Sent: 30 September 2008 13:34 To: MediaWiki API announcements & discussion Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-api] Problem with action=edit using PHP Marcus Ramsden schreef: > > Hi, > > > > I am getting an issue using the edit action of the MediaWiki API. > Whenever I send an edit request I am getting an error response stating > badtoken. The question I have is which token is this referring to. Is > this referring to my cookie token which I have instructed curl to > store or is it referring to the edit token. > The badtoken error always refers to the edit token. > > > > The login operation is given the following parameters using a POST > request; > > action=login&lgname=<bot username>&lgpassword=<bot password>&format=php > > > > To obtain the token I am using the following parameters in a GET request ; > > action=query&intoken=edit&titles=IBWikiBotTest&prop=info|revisions&format=ph p. > > > > > The following parameters are then used as part of a POST request in > the attempt to create a new page; > > action=edit&title=IBWikiBotTest&summary=Page created by the > IBWikiBot.&text=This is some test content added by the > IBWikiBot.&md5=e21e79d8ee8ee6b5038c9bac090decf1&bot&recreate&token=0e72e1361 3a9408646cae5aa1a630d0a+\\&format=php > Try removing the second backslash (you don't need to escape backslashes in URLs) and encoding the + as %2B (if you don't do that, it could end up being converted to a space). Roan Kattouw (Catrope) _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api

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Problem with action=edit using PHP
by Marcus Ramsden 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Hi, I am getting an issue using the edit action of the MediaWiki API. Whenever I send an edit request I am getting an error response stating badtoken. The question I have is which token is this referring to. Is this referring to my cookie token which I have instructed curl to store or is it referring to the edit token. The login operation is given the following parameters using a POST request; action=login&lgname=<bot username>&lgpassword=<bot password>&format=php To obtain the token I am using the following parameters in a GET request ; action=query&intoken=edit&titles=IBWikiBotTest&prop=info|revisions&format=ph p. The following parameters are then used as part of a POST request in the attempt to create a new page; action=edit&title=IBWikiBotTest&summary=Page created by the IBWikiBot.&text=This is some test content added by the IBWikiBot.&md5=e21e79d8ee8ee6b5038c9bac090decf1&bot&recreate&token=0e72e1361 3a9408646cae5aa1a630d0a+\\&format=php The unserialized response from the API is: Array ( [error] => Array ( [code] => badtoken [info] => Invalid token ) ) Any insight on this would be greatly appreciated. Marcus Ramsden --- Marcus Ramsden Technical Project Assistant Learning Societies Laboratory, Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton 3069, Building 32, Highfield Campus Southampton SO17 1BJ www.southampton.ac.uk/ecs

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Not finding all links with generator=links
by yishai goldstein 29 Sep '08

29 Sep '08

Hi, generator=links doesn't seem to find all the links on the page. For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&generator=links&gpllimit=500…'t return the link to: Militia (United States) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militia_%28United_States%29> I don't know what is special about this link that it isn't returned. But I also found that links to redirects to the page itself are not shown. For Example: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&generator=links&gpllimit=500… not show the link to: 1 E-10 m <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_E-10_m> Thanks, Yishai <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_E-10_m>

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Access to Special: pages via API
by Russell Blau 29 Sep '08

29 Sep '08

Are there any plans to provide API hooks for getting the contents of the remaining Special: pages? We have list=allpages for Special:AllPages, list=allcategories for Special:Categories and list=recentchanges for Special:RecentChanges, for example (and some others), but at present there is no way of accessing the contents of many pages such as: Special:BrokenRedirects Special:CrossNamespaceLinks Special:DeadendPages Special:DoubleRedirects Special:LongPages Special:AncientPages Special:LonelyPages Special:FewestRevisions Special:WithoutInterwiki Special:ProtectedPages Special:ProtectedTitles Special:ShortPages Special:UncategorizedCategories Special:UncategorizedImages Special:UncategorizedPages Special:UncategorizedTemplates Special:UnusedCategories Special:UnusedImages Special:UnusedTemplates Special:WantedCategories Special:WantedFiles Special:WantedPages Special:MostLinkedCategories Special:MostImages Special:MostLinked Special:MostLinkedTemplates Special:MostCategories Special:MostRevisions Granted, some of these are more useful than others, but the information is accessible via the UI, so why not via the API? Russ

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uploading pages and images?
by Rich Morin 21 Sep '08

21 Sep '08

I need to load up a few hundred MW pages with text and images. Looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php, I find several tools for getting information about images, but nothing for uploading them: * prop=images (im) * * prop=imageinfo (ii) * * list=allimages (ai) * * list=imageusage (iu) * Am I missing something? More generally, are there any tools other than pywikipediabot and the MW API that I should look into? -r -- http://www.cfcl.com/rdm Rich Morin http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/resume rdm(a)cfcl.com http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/weblog +1 650-873-7841 Technical editing and writing, programming, and web development

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Re: [Mediawiki-api] uploading pages and images?
by Loki 20 Sep '08

20 Sep '08

take a look at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Client_Code or on the botpages at WP some of them can upload images via the regular frontend On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Rich Morin <rdm(a)cfcl.com> wrote: > At 18:55 +0200 9/20/08, Bryan Tong Minh wrote: >> Uploading is something that I am still working on. ... > > OK; thanks for the info. > > -r > -- > http://www.cfcl.com/rdm Rich Morin > http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/resume rdm(a)cfcl.com > http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/weblog +1 650-873-7841 > > Technical editing and writing, programming, and web development > > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-api mailing list > Mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api > >

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