Mediawiki-api May 2010

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How to expand templates, but leave comments
by Kevin Dunn 20 Jan '26

20 Jan '26

Hi there, I'm using the API to extract the raw wiki text from my pages, using the "?action=query&titles=Main_Page&export&exportnowrap" syntax. That works perfectly. Now I would like to get the templates expanded out in the result, so I use: "?action=query&titles=Main_Page&prop=revisions&rvlimit=1&rvprop=content&rvexpandtemplates", which does the job, as expected, but it also strips out the comments. My problem is that the comments are meaningful to me (I use them to help process the wiki text in subsequent steps). Is there a way to expand templates with the API, but leave the comments intact? Thanks, Kevin

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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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action=upload throws 'uploaddisabled'
by Will Preston 31 May '10

31 May '10

Hello. I'm using version 1.16, and I'm trying to use curl to call the API to upload files specified in a form by the user. So, the user submits via a POST the file they want to upload, and the php copies that file to a temporary spot on the server. I then use curl to tell the API to upload that file, but it says <error code="uploaddisabled" info="Uploads are not enabled... Even though I can totally upload through Special:Upload just fine. Here's the curl (this is after obtaining an edit token in code that works fine as a setup for creating new articles): $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, 'cookiefile.txt'); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, 'cookiefile.txt'); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, Array("Content-Type: multipart/form-data")); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://$server_name/w/api.php?action=upload&token=$edittoken&filename=$ filename&url=http://$server_name/upload_tmp/$filename"); I'm also confused as to how to call it using the 'file' option instead, as the manual says if takes 'file contents', and the examples has 'file=file_contents_here'. When I try that method with the curl curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://$server_name/w/api.php?action=upload&token=$edittoken&filename=$ filename&file=file_contents_here"); then I get the error: <error code="missingparam" info="One of the parameters sessionkey, file, url is required" So, what's 'file contents' supposed to contain? Thanks for the help. Will Preston Network Administrator OLSON KUNDIG ARCHITECTS 206.624.5670 olsonkundigarchitects.com <http://www.olsonkundigarchitects.com/>

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How to retrieve display page title with "query" API?
by Pierre-Olivier Latour 26 May '10

26 May '10

Hi all, How can I use the wikipedia "query" API to retrieve the display title of a page with the proper lowercase / uppercase? For instance, if I call: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=info&titles=IPad&format… I get back: <?xml version="1.0"?> <api> <query> <pages> <page pageid="25970423" ns="0" title="IPad" touched="2010-05-26T13:22:43Z" lastrevid="364291567" counter="0" length="56739" /> </pages> </query> </api> The raw page title is indeed "IPad" but the display one should be "iPad"? Is there any way I can get the display title? I don't want to use the "parse" API (which has a nice "displaytitle" property) as it returns way too much data. In any case, it seems a "prop" option for "displaytitle" in the "query" API would be a nice addition and it would be consistent with the properties you can retrieve with the "parse" API. -Pol ________________________________ Pierre-Olivier Latour pol(a)cooliris.com

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Problem with mwclient and EditPage::attemptSave hook
by Alexander Kanterakis 24 May '10

24 May '10

Hi, I 've setup mediawiki-1.15.1 with the following hook in LocalSettings.php: $wgHooks['EditPage::attemptSave'][] = 'foo'; Foo is a simple function: function foo($editpage) { return true; } With this setup I 've noticed that I cannot save any page with mwclient (ver 0.6.4). The call: page.save(newText) raises the following exception: File "/lib/python2.6/json/decoder.py", line 338, in raw_decode raise ValueError("No JSON object could be decoded") ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded When I comment out the hook then the save command works properly. Any suggestions? My system is a OSX 10.6.3 Thank you Alex.

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Deleting old images
by Mike.lifeguard 23 May '10

23 May '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I cannot figure out how to delete old versions of an image through the API. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Edit_-_Delete only talks about deleting pages. Is this possible? Thanks, - -Mike -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkv4DOoACgkQst0AR/DaKHv7PwCggVKQV+vWJ2bWQt46IzIYZuiS B9AAoI0dOXrz4wpkrq8kW9ibiyEvvFkb =HowF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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API to get just a section of a page
by don undeen 13 May '10

13 May '10

________________________________ hi, Sorry, I've been through the documentation, but I can't seem to find a method to return a rendered section of a page. I see the methods for editing a section, but not obtaining it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Many apologies if this is a really basic question I'm too dim to figure out. Thanks very much Don

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