Mediawiki-api February 2010

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Need to extract abstract of a wikipedia page
by aditya srinivas 23 Nov '23

23 Nov '23

Hello, I am writing a Java program to extract the abstract of the wikipedia page given the title of the wikipedia page. I have done some research and found out that the abstract with be in rvsection=0 So for example if I want the abstract of 'Eiffel Tower" wiki page then I am querying using the api in the following way. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=Eiffel… and parse the XML data which we get and take the wikitext in the tag <rev xml:space="preserve"> which represents the abstract of the wikipedia page. But this wiki text also contains the infobox data which I do not need. I would like to know if there is anyway in which I can remove the infobox data and get only the wikitext related to the page's abstract Or if there is any alternative method by which I can get the abstract of the page directly. Looking forward to your help. Thanks in Advance Aditya Uppu

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Re: [Mediawiki-api] Image uploading
by John Du Hart 26 Feb '10

26 Feb '10

What exactly are you trying to automatically upload to Wikipedia? On Feb 12, 2010 5:58 AM, "Heramb Lele" <heramb.forums(a)googlemail.com> wrote: Thanx Bryan and Platonides for the reply I am still couldnt manage to upload the image Could you please elaborate more what should be done I tried to access the page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Upload it displays >From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Upload#column-one>, search <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Upload#searchInput> The action you have requested is limited to Autoconfirmed users<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Autoconfirmed_users>, Administrators <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators>, Confirmed users <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:User_access_levels>. Return to Main Page <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page>. On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Bryan Tong Minh <bryan.tongminh(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > >... _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api

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list=search question
by Tomasz Finc 25 Feb '10

25 Feb '10

For API searches does the size value for srprop refer to the size of the snippet value or something else? If it isn't for the snippet value is there any way to predict the snippet length? --tomasz

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Attribution text for creative commons images on commons
by Anand Ramanathan 25 Feb '10

25 Feb '10

Hi, What is the best way to programmatically get the attribution text for creative commons images? I was told that the category containing the license would contain the attribution text, but found many images dont follow that process. Some images, for example, Max_Planck.png have some attribution requirements buried inside the description - but that is hard to extract and automate. Any suggestions? Thanks Anand

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[Mediawiki-api-announce] User-Agent header now mandatory
by Roan Kattouw 17 Feb '10

17 Feb '10

As of Monday Feb 15, passing a User-Agent header is mandatory for *all* HTTP requests to Wikimedia sites. This includes the API. If your client doesn't provide a User-Agent header, it'll receive HTTP 403 errors with the text "Please provide a User-Agent" or something along those lines. This was announced in a (now rather lengthy) thread on wikitech-l: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2010-February/046777.html Ideally, your User-Agent header should identify your client in such a way that Wikimedia staff are able to figure out who to contact if your client is somehow engaging in disruptive behavior. Putting in an e-mail address works well for this, but mentioning your wiki username, the name of the wiki page of the tool (with wiki prefix, so they know on which of the 812 wikis to look) or a URL to a page about you or your tool are fine too, provided that they lead to a functional way of contacting you. Please don't take this as "if I set a User-Agent my client will potentially be blocked". If it's being disruptive, it'll be blocked anyway; if you set a User-Agent header, you'll be informed immediately, or better, get a chance to fix your client without having it blocked. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api-announce mailing list Mediawiki-api-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api-announce

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403 forbidden when using the API
by Markus Möller 17 Feb '10

17 Feb '10

Hello, when I try to send an api request I will receive a 403 forbidden error. I call the following URL using the PHP file_get_contents method: http://de.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=opensearch&search=baby&format=xml When I call exactly the same URL in a browser everything ist fine. I'm a little bit confused. Are there any blocked IP addresses? Best regards Markus -- Twick.it, die Erklärmaschine Web: http://twick.it Twitter: http://twitter.com/twickit_info + http://twitter.com/twickit_de Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Twick.it

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Image uploading
by Herulee 12 Feb '10

12 Feb '10

Hello, I am stuck with image uploading from file system I have a path c:\images\abc.jpg This image I want to upload on wiki but it doesnt work sample code looks like $file = "c:\\images\\D4215_0_0.jpg"; $data = "action=upload&filename=$file&token=%2B%5C"; $path = "/mediawiki/api.php"; echo "socket opened"; fputs($fp, "POST $path HTTP/1.1\r\n"); fputs($fp, "Host: $host\r\n"); fputs($fp, "Content-type: multipart/form-data \r\n"); fputs($fp, "Content-length: ". strlen($data) ."\r\n"); fputs($fp, "\r\n"); fputs($fp, $data); can you please help me whats wrong here? -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Image-uploading-tp27544560p27544560.html Sent from the WikiMedia API mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Section editing
by Herulee 11 Feb '10

11 Feb '10

Hello, Is it possible to change a specific section of existing page using API? Is it possible to have seperate TOC for list of figures or list of tables? Thanx in advance -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Section-editing-tp27435551p27435551.html Sent from the WikiMedia API mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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# of titles at once
by Eric Sun 11 Feb '10

11 Feb '10

Hi, According to the API documentation the "titles" argument can take a list of titles,e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?titles=The_Matrix|Casablanca_%28film%29&a… Is there a limit on # of titles I can string together? Would it be possible to combine a large number (say, 100 or 1000) into one API request? Thanks, Eric

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Know when an article was added to a category?
by S. Nunes 10 Feb '10

10 Feb '10

Hi, Is it possible to know using the MediaWiki API when an article was added to a given category? More specifically, I'm looking for the dates when featured articles where labeled as featured. If this turns out to be impossible via the API, how can this information be obtained otherwise? Thanks in advance for your comments, -- Sérgio Nunes

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