Mediawiki-api January 2009

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Backlink Count
by Ankuj Gupta 19 Jan '09

19 Jan '09

I have been able to get the baclinks for a particular page using the the api.php http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=backlinks&bltitle=Delhi… I have used the php format so that it can be easily parsed.Is there any way to get all the backlinks in one go.Moreover i am only concerned with the number of backlinks. It is possible to get that? -- Ankuj Gupta Computer Engineering NSIT , India

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Re: [Mediawiki-api] How to use mediawiki api
by Ankuj Gupta 18 Jan '09

18 Jan '09

I have went through it and i was worked on the example that it is providing but still i am confused how can it be used On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:49 PM, Nicolas Dumazet <nicdumz(a)gmail.com> wrote: > mmm you're probably not on mediawiki-api, sorry for this > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Nicolas Dumazet <nicdumz(a)gmail.com> > Date: 2009/1/18 > Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-api] How to use mediawiki api > To: MediaWiki API announcements & discussion <mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > > > ah, I was pretty sure I saw your name somewhere before. A GSoCer =) > > Have you tried simply reading http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php ? It > gives a simple overview of most of the API's possibilities. I also > links to.... http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API the API documentation > =) > > Regarding your question, searching for "backlinks" on the first page > links you to a good example: > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=backlinks&bltitle=Main%… > > GSoC is a lot about looking by yourself for documentation, about being > independent. Come on', dig a bit more, the answer wasn't so hard to > find =) > > 2009/1/18 Ankuj Gupta <ankuj2004(a)gmail.com>: >> Hi >> >> I am working on my wikipedia project. I require to know the number of >> back links for a page. For this i am planning to use the mediawiki >> api. But i need help regarding how can be they be used. Can api be >> used offline. >> Thans >> >> -- >> Ankuj Gupta >> Computer Engineering >> NSIT >> India >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mediawiki-api mailing list >> Mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api >> > > > > -- > Nicolas Dumazet — NicDumZ [ nɪk.d̪ymz ] > > > > -- > Nicolas Dumazet — NicDumZ [ nɪk.d̪ymz ] > -- Ankuj

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Trouble making edit requests
by David Di Biase 14 Jan '09

14 Jan '09

Hi there, I just started using the MediaWiki API today. I'm writting a script to insert about 500 new articles into the Wiki. I'm using PHP5, MedaWiki 1.13.3. I've decided to use CURL to communicate with the APIs on my local machine. So far I can login, receive my lgtoken and request an edit token - which is all good. What I'm noticing however is when I use the examples on the site to send an action=edit I get this returned back: Array ( [error] => Array ( [code] => help [info] => [*] => Plus the entire manual after it. What's even more strange is when I read the the manual more closely I don't see any references to action=edit being available. I have however found the same manual on other sites which list it accordingly. I'm completely baffled. Apparently 1.13.3 *does* have support for API editing. I've attached a copy of the script I'm using as well just in case. Thanks in advance, Dave

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download the whole wiki with one click
by jidanni＠jidanni.org 14 Jan '09

14 Jan '09

Gentlemen, let's say one is afraid one day the forces of evil will confiscate one's small wiki, so one wants to encourage all loyal users to keep a backup of the whole wiki (current revisions fine, no need for full history). OK, we want this to be as simple as possible for our loyal users, just one click needed. (So forget Special:Export!) And, we want this to be as simple as possible for our loyal administrator, me. I.e., use existing facilities, no cronjobs to run dumpBackup.php (or even mysqldump, which would be giving up too much information) and then offering a link to what they produce. The format desired is for later making a new wiki via Special:Import, so indeed the Special:Export or dumpBackup.php --current outputs are the desired format. I just can't figure out the right http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API URL recipe... api.php ? action=query & generator=allpages & format=xmlfm & ...? Could it be that the API lacks the "bulk export of XML formatted data" capability of Special:Export? If one click is not enough, then at least one click per Namespace. I would just have the users backup Main: and Category:, for example. Embedding the API URL would be no problem, I would just use [{{SERVER}}/api.php?... Backup this whole site to your disk]

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GPL license question when embedding MediaWiki pages into your webapp
by Trond Olsen 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

Hi, I'm doing some experimentation with a webapp and thought the online API could be a good way to deliver documentation to the users. Not all of my webapp is open-source though, so how does the GPL license of the original source-code when you're using MediaWiki as a service?

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lack of a format: indented, real xml
by jidanni＠jidanni.org 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

I notice a lack of a format: indented, real xml $ w3m -dump 'http://transgender-taiwan.org/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=nam…' | sed '/^</,$!d' > What_I_want.xml $ wget -O Almost_what_I_want_but_somebody_stripped_all_the_indentation.xml \ 'http://transgender-taiwan.org/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=nam…' I.e., if dumpBackup.php and Special:Export produce it, so should the API.

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parsing multiple pages (for search results)
by Michael Dale 11 Jan '09

11 Jan '09

Is it possible to parse multiple pages at once or to get your search results as html? for example I run something like: http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?format=jsonfm&action=query&generator… And I get all the results "revisions": ["*"] as wiki-text ... ideally I could get those results as html is there anyway to do that? --michael

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action=parse internal wiki links - hostname?
by Dian 09 Jan '09

09 Jan '09

hi, I have a question regarding the parsed internal links. They have the format: <a href="/wiki/Foo" ... Is it possible to have the hostname shown too, i.e. www.mywiki.example.com/wiki/... Best regards, dian

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action=parse contains unexpected data
by Dian 08 Jan '09

08 Jan '09

hi, as described on the MW API help pages [1], the parse method should return parsed wikitext. But when I test the method, the result includes:  This was on my test wiki-system, but direct over MW the result is the same. Any ideas how to fix this? Best regards, dian [1]: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Expanding_templates_and_rendering

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api file uploading
by Michael Dale 07 Jan '09

07 Jan '09

For use in both the external media wizard http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2009-January/040858.html and the firefogg in-browser transcoder & up-loader /with progress bar/: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16927 http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2008-December/040524.html We could really use the addition of file uploading support to the API. This would also be helpful for cell phone image type applications no? Is there anyone actively looking into such a development? Any tips if I take that on? peace, --michael

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