Mediawiki-api April 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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Page Locking
by Herulee 05 Jun '10

05 Jun '10

Hello Is it possible to lock the page through API? Thanx -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Page-Locking-tp27793348p27793348.html Sent from the WikiMedia API mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden.
by Rojan Ulak 29 Apr '10

29 Apr '10

i'm trying to run this query from my .net code and i'm getting 403 Forbidden message, this was working fro me last month i tested it. WebClient cleint = new WebClient(); cleint.BaseAddress = "http://en.wikipedia.org/"; string url = @"w/api.php?action=query&list=categorymembers&cmtitle=Category:Physics"; string htmlCode = cleint.DownloadString(url); //This is where i get the Exception. Any Idea Guys? _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy is not the old busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:…

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Max nb or frequency of api.php requests
by 10oui＠free.fr 28 Apr '10

28 Apr '10

Hi, I'd like to do a lot of api.php requests (300k). Is it fair regarding server or is there a maximum of nb or frequency requests to respect ? Thanks

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A question on Patrolling?
by Xiujun Li 28 Apr '10

28 Apr '10

Hi, guys, Currently, I am working on a Wiki Project, I am trying to track some wiki users' operation, like logging, and how long they spend on the wiki by patrolling etc. So is there any indicator I can get these cues? I collected the recentchanges and logevents, but I think these are not enough. Anyone knows this? thanks, Marc

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Questions about the MediaWiki API Component
by Aaron Ward 25 Apr '10

25 Apr '10

Hello there! I'm a Flash Video Game Developer working on a word based game. I stumbled across the MediaWiki API component during my research and I've been testing it locally in the game to retrieve word definitions and displaying them in the game for the player. In general, everything works great locally, but there's a few odd issues that I'd like to get worked out, if possible. I actually posted my questions on the MediaWiki forums last night, but just realized that the API specifically requests that questions be sent to this email address. The link below goes to my post on the forums and the suggestions a moderator, Skizzerz, has already provided. http://www.mwusers.com/forums/showthread.php?14641-Questions-about-the-Medi… Any help you may be able to provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for this great component. It's been fairly simple to use so far. Aaron. EduGameDev

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Images in opensearch results
by Madam Chomsky 23 Apr '10

23 Apr '10

As an example: The following query: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=opensearch&search=Berlin&format=xml returns 10 results, one of them: <Item> <Text xml:space="preserve">Berlin S-Bahn</Text> <Description xml:space="preserve">The Berlin S-Bahn is a rapid transit system operated by S-Bahn Berlin GmbH, a subsidiary of the Deutsche Bahn. </Description> <Url xml:space="preserve">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_S-Bahn</Url> <Image source="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/S-Bahn-Logo.svg/50…" width="50" height="50" /> </Item> has the aforementioned image tag. > I'm > guessing whatever's showing you these images is using some heuristic > like finding the first image on the page and showing you that. I think so as well. I can confirm though that it is not always returning the first image on a page. Furthermore there are some pages with images, that do not return image tags in the corresponding opensearch result. I would be interested in taking a look at the code that is generating the image tags in the opensearch results, but I have absolutly no idea where I should search for the code. Best Mad_Chom > 2010/4/14 Madam Chomsky <madamchomsky at yahoo.de>: > > Hi > > Hope I am posting to the correct list. > > > > I am doing an opensearch query via the api (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=opensearch&search=Te). Some search results come with a tiny thumbnail image link. I would like to know if the thumbnails are defined when someone is creating a wikipedia page or if there is some kind of algorithm that automatically creates these thumbnails. Would be glad about any information about this matter. > > > The opensearch result itself just contains page titles, no images. I'm > guessing whatever's showing you these images is using some heuristic > like finding the first image on the page and showing you that. > > Roan Kattouw (Catrope)

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parameter help
by saeed ahmed 19 Apr '10

19 Apr '10

hello friends, I want to parse the word definition from wikitionary. but I do not understand which parameter will used for it. please help me about this. ----- Regards Saeed Ahmed http://saeed05.wordpress.com -----

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Re: [Mediawiki-api] Call limit
by Behzad Behrouzi 16 Apr '10

16 Apr '10

From: Behzad Behrouzi [mailto:behzad@dotnextinc.com] Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 3:37 PM To: mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org Cc: roan.kattouw(a)home.nl Subject: Call limit Hi - We have implemented the WikiHow data to our search results on our LeapFish Product (www.leapfish.com) via the MediaWiki API and unfortunately we seem to have hit the maximum call limit and/or our IP has been confused with SPAM. I'm not sure what the call limit is or where I can go to request an increase but is there anyway we can remove the limit or whitelist our IP? LeapFish is a fairly high traffic site. Please advise. Thank you for the help. Below is a current call example: http://www.wikihow.com/api.php?action=query <http://www.wikihow.com/api.php?action=query&list=search&srsearch=%22+ride+a +bike%22&sroffset=0&format=xml&srlimit=4> &list=search&srsearch=%22+ride+a+bike%22&sroffset=0&format=xml&srlimit=4 Would it help if we passed user information? If so how we would we pass it? My login is behzadb The request is coming from the following IP: 208.48.87.2 Behzad B. Regards, ________________________________ Behzad Behrouzi | Vice President, Technology cid:image001.jpg@01C961DF.D8E99DC0 Office : 888-748-5510 Ext: 110 Mobile: 925-367-6949 Fax: 925-225-9805 Behzad(a)DotNextInc.com | www.dotnextinc.com Confidentiality: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. It may also be privileged or otherwise protected by work product immunity or other legal rules. You may not copy this message or disclose its contents to anyone. You are hereby notified that disclosing, copying or distributing this email or the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please delete it immediately.

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Images in opensearch results
by Madam Chomsky 14 Apr '10

14 Apr '10

Hi Hope I am posting to the correct list. I am doing an opensearch query via the api (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=opensearch&search=Te). Some search results come with a tiny thumbnail image link. I would like to know if the thumbnails are defined when someone is creating a wikipedia page or if there is some kind of algorithm that automatically creates these thumbnails. Would be glad about any information about this matter. Thanks, Linnart

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