Mediawiki-api June 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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Deploying API fixes to servers?
by Pierre-Olivier Latour 25 Jun '10

25 Jun '10

Hi, I reported these 2 bugs in the API, which have been fixed rapidly in the source code, but they are still not fixed on the server side (I just checked): https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23834 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23835 Who do I contact to request the servers to use the new API with these fixes? -Pierre ________________________________ Pierre-Olivier Latour pol(a)cooliris.com

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Re: [Mediawiki-api] POST api requests not working in python
by Eric Sun 21 Jun '10

21 Jun '10

sending to mediawiki-api and bcc'ing wikitech-l; apologies for sending this to the wrong list. On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Eric Sun <esun(a)cs.stanford.edu> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to run action=query in Python with a POST request, but for some > reason it only works with a GET. > > This works fine (GET): > >>> req = urllib2.Request(' > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=The_Matrix&export&for… > ') > >>> f = urllib2.urlopen(req, None, 300) > >>> print f.read() > ...full page output... > > > This doesn't work (POST): > >>> req = urllib2.Request('http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php', > 'action=query&titles=The_Matrix&export&format=txt') > >>> f = urllib2.urlopen(req, None, 300) > >>> print f.read() > Array > ( > [query] => Array > ( > [normalized] => Array > ( > [0] => Array > ( > [from] => The_Matrix > [to] => The Matrix > ) > > ) > > [pages] => Array > ( > [30007] => Array > ( > [pageid] => 30007 > [ns] => 0 > [title] => The Matrix > ) > > ) > > ) > > ) > > Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong here? > Thanks in advance! >

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Bug in retrieving revisions ?
by S. Nunes 20 Jun '10

20 Jun '10

Hi, I think that the API is returning bad results when I try to retrieve a list of revisions. Consider the following call to retrieve all revisions from the Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&rvprop=ids&rv… The rvstartid and rvendid parameters are respectively set with the latest revision made to the article and the first. I know that this article has more than > 30000 revisions, however with this call I am only getting 363 results. Can anyone please check this ? Thanks in advance, -- Sérgio Nunes

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getting backlinsk for a page
by Benjamin Good 16 Jun '10

16 Jun '10

I'm wondering why this http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Caffeine&meta=siteinf… isn't working. Is there anything wrong with that request or is there something wrong with the API ? The error code returned is <error code="blinvalidtitle" info="Bad title ``''" xml:space="preserve"> thanks -Ben

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Re: [Mediawiki-api] Questions about the MediaWiki API Component
by Aaron Ward 15 Jun '10

15 Jun '10

I finally had the time to dive back into this project and managed to get everything working exactly as I was hoping.... locally! After uploading the game to a server it suddenly stops working again. From my knowledge with Flash games and further testing, I believe it has to do with the cross-domain-policy for Wikitionary, which is usually an xml set up on the server. While attempting to locate the current Wikimedia policy I ran into random comments with warnings about the security risks involved in using the cross-domain-policy. I also discovered that Bugfix 1.9 states "Partial support for Flash cross-domain-policy filtering." I'm not sure where to go from here. Is there a confirmed and allowed method to programmatically pull the rendered HTML from Wiktionary that can then be parsed? Thanks, Aaron. > > On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Conrad Irwin <conrad.irwin(a)googlemail.com > > wrote: > >> >> On 04/25/2010 11:32 PM, Aaron Ward wrote: >> > 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. >> > >> >> As in the forum, you can get definitions from Wiktionary, though it's >> not quite that simple (there is not a "data" API to Wiktionary, you can >> only get the page text). >> >> You have a choice between: >> >> 1. Getting the raw text of the page with the API and extracting the >> lines that start with a # for definitions. >> 2. Getting the rendered HTML of the page as normal, and extracting the >> contents of the <ol> in <div id="bodyContent">. >> 3. Creating something easier to use with the pre-extracted lists at >> http://toolserver.org/~enwikt/definitions<http://toolserver.org/%7Eenwikt/definitions> >> . >> >> In an ideal world there would be a public API using the data from (3), >> but no one has done that yet. >> >> Conrad >> > >

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persistent HTTP connections
by Robert Ullmann 15 Jun '10

15 Jun '10

Hi, I noted that MWclient uses, or tries to use, persistent HTTP connections to the API. I have a few questions, as I am looking at improving Interwicket, which makes lots of API calls, and is sometimes driven nuts by the two layers of proxies (here, on my side of the net) that are prone to failing ... Is using persistent connections a good idea? What is the server-side timeout when a connection is idle? Can I make requests to various different projects (xx.wiktionary, for various xx) on the same connection (looks like it, as they all return the same address)? Just thinking about what would be best if I re-write a layer on my side (;-) best, Robert

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GlobalBlocking API
by Mike.lifeguard 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, There is only a read API for GlobalBlocking. While I look forward to not resorting to screenscraping when a write API is implemented, I'm proceeding with the interface available to me. For the moment, I'm trying to figure out whether an IP has ever been blocked. While this is trivial for single IPs, it isn't for rangeblocks. The listing of *current* global blocks has the bgip parameter which makes it very easy to check for blocks currently in effect, but there is no such thing for the log. Any advice for proceeding from this point? Thanks, - -Mike -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkwNJQ8ACgkQst0AR/DaKHscHACeP/yHyY7udcfcRuREMadmQi/r Z5UAoMWJ1LT5D2cEbTFhABnKT+hqMkby =v2Oo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Logging in to a wiki site running https with perl/python
by Ravi Parimi 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

Hi, I installed the MediaWiki::API (version 0.30) module from CPAN onto my linux workstation. The wiki site that I wish to connect and modify is running WikiMedia over https and I cannot get this simple login script to work: #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use MediaWiki::API; my $mw = MediaWiki::API->new(); sub on_error() { print "Error code: " . $mw->{error}->{code} . "\n"; print $mw->{error}->{stacktrace}."\n"; die; } $mw->{config}->{api_url} = 'https://wiki.eng.somecompany.com/index.php'; $mw->{config}->{on_error} = \&on_error; # log in to the wiki $mw->login( { lgname => 'myuser', lgpassword => 'mypass'} ); use Data::Dumper; print Dumper($mw); # perl wiki.pl Error code: 2 401 Authorization Required : error occurred when accessing https://wiki.eng.somecompany.com/index.php after 1 attempt(s) at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/MediaWiki/API.pm line 354 MediaWiki::API::api('MediaWiki::API=HASH(0xce6e88)', 'HASH(0xf64ad0)') called at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/MediaWiki/API.pm line 218 MediaWiki::API::login('MediaWiki::API=HASH(0xce6e88)', 'HASH(0xf64ad0)') called at wiki.pl line 19 Died at wiki.pl line 12. >From the documentation, error code 2 stands for ERR_HTTP and I believe this is due to attempting a connection over https. Has anyone on the list had success with using the API (with perl/python/java etc..) to login to wikis running https? Any pointers to examples will be greatly helpful. Thanks, ravi

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CentralAuth API
by Mike.lifeguard 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, For CentralAuth, there is not even a read API. How would one best get the current locked status/hidden status from the API (assuming one uses an account with privileges sufficient for seeing accounts that are hidden)? Currently, I'm thinking of looking at the most recent globalauth log entry for that user to figure it out. Thanks for your advice, - -Mike -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkwNQLEACgkQst0AR/DaKHtB8wCffjzIPrscanVGlPsNyTyrJhu2 PZsAnid7XQx4CP6UyUOgHhLQsPYAyGFj =vfQM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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