Mediawiki-api April 2010

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A question on page missing attribution?
by Xiujun Li 14 Apr '10

14 Apr '10

Hi, all, I am now working on Wikipedia, but I met a question like this: see an example first: http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&pageids=1377&… Currently, in my database, there are many pages like this with "pageid="***", missing=""/" Does this mean that this page is deleted page? or something else? Thanks, Marc

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Need some help in a simple exportscript
by Claes Lindvall 14 Apr '10

14 Apr '10

Hi I admit I'm not the sharpest perlprogrammer in the world, so I need some help here. I'm trying to automate some things and I want to use MediaWiki::API. My final goal is to write an exportscript that export all pages in some categories and then an importscript that import the xml-file on another wiki. When I run the script below I get the following error: Use of uninitialized value in print at get_export.pl line 15. But if I run it from my webbrowser I get the result: api.php?action=query&generator=categories&titles=Page1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <api> <query> <pages> <page pageid="5" ns="14" title="Category:Teologi" /> </pages> </query> </api> The Script: use MediaWiki::API; binmode STDOUT, ':utf8'; my $mw = MediaWiki::API->new(); $mw->{config}->{api_url} = 'http://192.168.10.1/wiki3/api.php'; # log in to the wiki $mw->login( { lgname => 'WikiSysop', lgpassword => 'xxxxxx' } ) || die $mw->{error}->{code} . ': ' . $mw->{error}->{details}; if ( my $ref = $mw->api( { action => 'query', generator => 'categories', titles => 'Page1'} )) { print $ref->{query}->{pages}->{page}->{ns}; } What is wrong with my script (or me)? Kindly Regards Claes

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Failed to decode JSON
by Claes Lindvall 12 Apr '10

12 Apr '10

Hi Im having trouble to get MediaWiki::API ver. 0.30 to work properly. Im running MediaWiki 1.13 and my simple query is: use MediaWiki::API; my $mw = MediaWiki::API->new(); $mw->{config}->{api_url} = 'http://192.168.10.1/wiki15/api.php'; $mw->list ( { action => 'query', list => 'Page1', export => '1', exportnowrap => '1' }) || die $mw->{error}->{code} . ': ' . $mw->{error}->{details}; The returning error is: 2: Failed to decode JSON returned by http://192.168.10.1/wiki15/api.php Decoding Error: malformed JSON string, neither array, object, number, string or atom, at character offset 0 (before "<mediawiki xmlns="ht...") at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/MediaWiki/API.pm line 337 ... Page1 comes here ... Grateful for some help. Regards Claes Lindvall

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help needed for wiktionary api
by saeed ahmed 10 Apr '10

10 Apr '10

I'm trying to do build a system which is described below. "The user inputs a word. The system check if word exists at portuguese section of wiktionary. If true, get and show to user the word definiton. If false, sugest (displays) similar words, as in Wiktionary, with her links." I have done this http://troyee.com/example/sl_project_36/index.php using this api http://en.wiktionary.org/w/api.php?action=opensearch&search=api&format=xml&… *it is for english word. Now I stuck with two questions 1. Am I going to the right way? 2. how to handle with portuguese section of wiktionary. which api will use for this? I need your useful suggestions please. ----- Regards Saeed Ahmed http://saeed05.wordpress.com -----

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Fwd: [Foundation-l] Flagged Protection API
by Casey Brown 08 Apr '10

08 Apr '10

(Note that this is about Flagged Protection, which is not exactly the same as FlaggedRevs. Forwarding it here since interested API people may not be on foundation-l.) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Voice of All <jschulz_4587(a)msn.com> Date: Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 1:00 AM Subject: [Foundation-l] Flagged Protection API To: foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org As you may know, there is a planned trial of FlaggedRevs on English Wikipedia. The proposal page can be found at WP:FPPR. People interested in writing user tools that interact with FlaggedRevs components will of course want to use the API. A reasonable documentation of the existing pages is provided at www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FlaggedRevs#API. Anyone interested in testing of these pages should visit flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org to try out these components. It may help to first browse the regular GUI to get a feel for what is going on. Problem reports and feature request should go on Wikimedia:FlaggedRevs_issues/API (on that wiki). A few quick notes specific to the flaggedrevs.labs site: * API page "action = review" * Use flag_status (1 or 0) not flag_accuracy (each wiki can have it's own tag names) * API page "action = stabilize" * Use protectlevel (none, autoconfirmed, or review) * Analogous to "publish" restriction GUI at action=protect -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Flagged-Protection-API-tp28174134p28174134.html Sent from the WikiMedia Foundation mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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get the word definition from wiki
by saeed ahmed 08 Apr '10

08 Apr '10

hello friends, I'm totally new with wiki api. I want your help. I want to get a word definition from wiki using wiki api. the system is below input a word -> get the definition from wiki . I am reading this http://en.wiktionary.org/w/api.php . but could not get it well. I do understand how to implement it. ----- Regards Saeed Ahmed http://saeed05.wordpress.com -----

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Fwd: MediaWiki security update: 1.15.3 and 1.16.0beta2
by Andrew G. West 07 Apr '10

07 Apr '10

This security upgrade has caused issue with my application: The Bugzilla page indicates that the cookie is returned with the first login request. I never used/stored this HTTP cookie, but instead built the cookie using the "enwiki_session=","enwikiUserID=", and other response fields. These fields are no longer present in the first HTTP response (or the second -- which fails due to lack of cookie). Is this functionality we should expect to return? Thanks, -AW -- Andrew G. West, Doctoral Student Dept. of Computer and Information Science University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA Email: westand(a)cis.upenn.edu Website: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~westand

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Fwd: MediaWiki security update: 1.15.3 and 1.16.0beta2
by Carl (CBM) 07 Apr '10

07 Apr '10

The following announcement details a breaking change to the API. The change is already live on WMF wikis. - Carl ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tim Starling <tstarling(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 9:03 PM Subject: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki security update: 1.15.3 and 1.16.0beta2 To: mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, mediawiki-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This is a security and bugfix release of MediaWiki 1.15.3 and MediaWiki 1.16.0beta2. MediaWiki was found to be vulnerable to login CSRF. An attacker who controls a user account on the target wiki can force the victim to log in as the attacker, via a script on an external website. If the wiki is configured to allow user scripts, say with "$wgAllowUserJs = true" in LocalSettings.php, then the attacker can proceed to mount a phishing-style attack against the victim to obtain their password. Even without user scripting, this attack is a potential nuisance, and so all public wikis should be upgraded if possible. Our fix includes a breaking change to the API login action. Any clients using it will need to be updated. We apologise for making such a disruptive change in a minor release, but we feel that security is paramount. For more details see https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23076 ********************************************************************** 1.15.3 ********************************************************************** Full release notes: http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/REL1_15_3/phase3/RELEASE-NO… Download: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.15/mediawiki-1.15.3.tar.gz Patch to previous version (1.15.2), without interface text: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.15/mediawiki-1.15.3.patch.gz Interface text changes: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.15/mediawiki-i18n-1.15.3.patch.gz GPG signatures: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.15/mediawiki-1.15.3.tar.gz.sig http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.15/mediawiki-1.15.3.patch.gz.sig http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.15/mediawiki-i18n-1.15.3.patch.gz… Public keys: https://secure.wikimedia.org/keys.html ********************************************************************** 1.16.0beta2 ********************************************************************** Full release notes: http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/REL1_16_0beta2/phase3/RELEA… Download: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.16/mediawiki-1.16.0beta2.tar.gz Patch to previous version (1.16.0beta1), without interface text: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.16/mediawiki-1.16.0beta2.patch.gz Interface text changes: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.16/mediawiki-i18n-1.16.0beta2.pat… GPG signatures: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.16/mediawiki-1.16.0beta2.tar.gz.s… http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.16/mediawiki-1.16.0beta2.patch.gz… http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.16/mediawiki-i18n-1.16.0beta2.pat… Public keys: https://secure.wikimedia.org/keys.html

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Make the Parser.php version string available
by Nolan White 06 Apr '10

06 Apr '10

The SiteInfo query currently provides all sorts of version numbers for the DB, the PHP install itself, etc..., but the one version number that *I*would find useful would be the version string from Parser.php. My memory about variable scope in PHP is a bit fuzzy, so I'm not positive if the code in Parser.php itself would need to be changed. The variable containing it's version string is a const named VERSION, located on line 55 (according to the line numbering in the ViewVC online code listing, at least). It'd kind of suck to need to change that in order to implement this but... well, personally I'd find the version number of Parser.php (and possibly some other internal version numbers) much more useful then the version numbers that are currently provided. Regards, Nolan (aka User:Ohms law)

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Getting the pageid of a deleted page ?
by Nolan White 06 Apr '10

06 Apr '10

Regarding the suggestion to return the pageid of deleted pages: I don't mind if this is implemented somehow, but there needs to be something that changes if the page has actually been deleted. It would be easy enough for me to change, but the current behavior, where the pageid isn't returned, is a behavior that I currently rely on. Something needs to say that, despite the fact that the pageid is being return, the page itself is in a deleted state. Regards, Nolan

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