Mediawiki-api July 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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API Internal Error since a few hours
by Nicolas Vervelle 31 Jul '10

31 Jul '10

Hi, A few hours ago, the following kind of API requests is producing an API internal error. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?gbllimit=max&gbltitle=American&prop=info&… resulting in <error code="internal_api_error_MWException" info="Exception Caught: Internal error in ApiResult::setElement: Attempting to add element backlinks=500, existing value is 500" xml:space="preserve"> If you remove the "gbllimit=max" parameter or replace it with a fixed value (gbllimit=200), it works. Would it be possible to fix this bug ? Thanks Nicolas

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use a generator to list pages in a specific namespace?
by Python Script 31 Jul '10

31 Jul '10

I'm trying to list all the pages in the user namespace on a wiki, NOT the main namespace, but I can't figure this out. Here's what I'm using to query a generator for "allpages": { 'action':'query', 'generator':'allpages', 'gaplimit':'5', 'gapfrom':'Foo, 'prop':'links|categories', 'plnamespaces':'2' } but this doesn't include pages in the user namespace? How do I query pages, using a generator, in a specific namespace? Thank you!

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Problem auto logining in a person to our mediawiki
by Itamar Arjuan 28 Jul '10

28 Jul '10

Hi dear support email group! My name is Itamar. I'm trying to automatically log in users of our main system , which are also registered with the same details to our mediawiki automatically so they don't have to login twice. some sort of a single signon. Our installation is at http://wiki.softwareprojects.com/ So here goes: I am trying to login using the api and php. I post with curl to our domain to the api.php and I get back the needToken XML. then when I send again the same login request , just with lgtoken including the token I got. I still get the same response needToken only this time with a different token , as if the token I've sent is wrong or anything. I have urlencoded all POST vars and values. later on I studied that i also, might need to tranfer the session id as well so what I did is take out from the first request header the session id and transferred it in the second one as lgsessionid and as well as sessionid and still I get the same needToken response instead of success If you can help me or guide me to where I need to go with this question I'll appreciate it a lot ! Thank you very much! Itamar

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Re: [Mediawiki-api] can't access my wiki's api using v1.15.4?
by Python Script 27 Jul '10

27 Jul '10

The root of my installation directory is http://www.WEBSITE.com/wiki/, and index.php is located in that directory. Since I have other software packages installed on my web server, I have them all installed in respective subdirectories. /wiki/ is the one for Mediawiki On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 1:44 AM, <mediawiki-api-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org>wrote: > > the api.php file is located at the same place as your index.php, the > so called "root". usually not a url with /wiki/ > > example: > http://foo/api.php > > not > http://foo/wiki/api.php >

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can't access my wiki's api using v1.15.4?
by Python Script 27 Jul '10

27 Jul '10

I'm using Mediawiki v1.15.4 on my wiki, but I can't access the api from a script for some reason. I'm using the python wikitools library, and I can access wikipedia's api just fine, and several other wikis... but not the one for my wiki. I get this error (it's a python error so it might not make much sense): Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#2>", line 1, in <module> site = wiki.Wiki("http://www.WIKISITE/wiki/api.php") File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\wikitools\wiki.py", line 79, in __init__ self.setSiteinfo() File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\wikitools\wiki.py", line 97, in setSiteinfo info = req.query() File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\wikitools\api.py", line 140, in query data = self.__parseJSON(rawdata) File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\wikitools\api.py", line 254, in __parseJSON data.seek(0) AttributeError: addinfourl instance has no attribute 'seek' it's like it can't find the api page? When I browse out to my wiki, I can browse to the api page, and like I said, I can access other wikis from that same machine, same script, etc, just not mine. Any help here? Thanks! I know the link is malformed, too, I just edited that since I don't want to publicize my wiki's url right now.

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Single User Login
by Mike.lifeguard 24 Jul '10

24 Jul '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, The only CentralAuth cookies I'm getting from the 2nd response referred to at [0] has domain=.wikipedia.org, so the bot will be logged in on all wikipedia domains. However, this doesn't work for non-wikipedia projects. How should I get a cookie for those domains as well? Thanks, - -Mike [0] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Login#Construct_cookies -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkxLAcQACgkQst0AR/DaKHvYsQCgv+5xvl41Akj3sDCCpeSx9+cW hvsAnjSG5e+B6egdETayzFYscBwiVxL0 =X7Iw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [Mediawiki-api] how to set flags to on in the api?
by Python Script 23 Jul '10

23 Jul '10

Setting "bot":1" is working now. Thanks! On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 4:28 PM, <mediawiki-api-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org>wrote: > Send Mediawiki-api mailing list submissions to > mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > mediawiki-api-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > mediawiki-api-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Mediawiki-api digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Problem with mwclient page.save and large text files (Sal976) > 2. Re: Problem with mwclient page.save and large text files > (Roan Kattouw) > 3. Re: Problem with mwclient page.save and large text files > (Salvatore Loguercio) > 4. Re: Problem with mwclient page.save and large text files > (Roan Kattouw) > 5. login from multiple (two) places? (Robert Ullmann) > 6. Re: login from multiple (two) places? (Roan Kattouw) > 7. Re: login from multiple (two) places? (Robert Ullmann) > 8. Re: login from multiple (two) places? (Carl (CBM)) > 9. Mediawiki adds extra lines (rashi dhing) > 10. how to set flags to on in the api? (Python Script) > 11. Re: how to set flags to on in the api? (Brad Jorsch) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:06:19 -0700 (PDT) > From: Sal976 <salvatore.loguercio(a)googlemail.com> > Subject: [Mediawiki-api] Problem with mwclient page.save and large > text files > To: mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Message-ID: <29151604.post(a)talk.nabble.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > > Hi, > > I am using mwclient 0.6.4 (r93) to import some Wiki pages from en.wikipedia > to another wiki installation (presumably running Mediawiki 1.15). > > Everything works fine, except when I try to import 'big' pages, e.g.: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grb2 > > content= Mediawiki text file to be imported (111579 characters in this > case) > > When I try to write this page (or pages of similar size), I get the > following error: > > page = site.Pages['Grb2'] > page.save(content) > > Traceback: > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/mwclient/page.py", line 142, in > save > result = do_edit() > File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/mwclient/page.py", line 137, in > do_edit > **data) > File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/mwclient/client.py", line 165, in > api > info = self.raw_api(action, **kwargs) > File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/mwclient/client.py", line 250, in > raw_api > return json.loads(json_data) > File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/json/__init__.py", line 307, in loads > return _default_decoder.decode(s) > File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/json/decoder.py", line 319, in decode > obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end()) > File "/usr/lib64/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 > > > I wonder if this error is due to server timeout or exceeding number of > characters.. > Any suggestions? > > > Thank you, > Sal > > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/Problem-with-mwclient-page.save-and-large-text-files-… > Sent from the WikiMedia API mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:20:23 +0200 > From: Roan Kattouw <roan.kattouw(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-api] Problem with mwclient page.save and large > text files > To: "MediaWiki API announcements & discussion" > <mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: > <AANLkTinSMXRCMzaPNfr1PqTHYLinVREKIruVrlsrQRPt(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > 2010/7/13 Sal976 <salvatore.loguercio(a)googlemail.com>: > > I wonder if this error is due to server timeout or exceeding number of > > characters.. > > Any suggestions? > > > It spends so much time parsing the wikitext you supplied that PHP's > max execution time limit was exceeded, which causes an empty (0-byte) > response. You can fix the error message by checking for a response of > length zero before you try to JSON-decode it. > > Roan Kattouw (Catrope) > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 01:39:12 -0700 (PDT) > From: Salvatore Loguercio <salvatore.loguercio(a)googlemail.com> > Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-api] Problem with mwclient page.save and large > text files > To: mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Message-ID: <29159629.post(a)talk.nabble.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > > Thanks much for the quick answer, I see the problem now. > I wonder how these large wikitexts could be written on my target Wiki. > Is there a way to 'force' the PHP max execution time limit through the API? > If not, I guess I will have to contact a sysop.. > > > Roan Kattouw-2 wrote: > > > > 2010/7/13 Sal976 <salvatore.loguercio(a)googlemail.com>: > >> I wonder if this error is due to server timeout or exceeding number of > >> characters.. > >> Any suggestions? > >> > > It spends so much time parsing the wikitext you supplied that PHP's > > max execution time limit was exceeded, which causes an empty (0-byte) > > response. You can fix the error message by checking for a response of > > length zero before you try to JSON-decode it. > > > > Roan Kattouw (Catrope) > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mediawiki-api mailing list > > Mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/Problem-with-mwclient-page.save-and-large-text-files-… > Sent from the WikiMedia API mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:22:58 +0200 > From: Roan Kattouw <roan.kattouw(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-api] Problem with mwclient page.save and large > text files > To: "MediaWiki API announcements & discussion" > <mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: > <AANLkTinrrlRsfOIufQdpxyo36gifWJ5znIudlRUqf2j8(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > 2010/7/14 Salvatore Loguercio <salvatore.loguercio(a)googlemail.com>: > > > > Thanks much for the quick answer, I see the problem now. > > I wonder how these large wikitexts could be written on my target Wiki. > > Is there a way to 'force' the PHP max execution time limit through the > API? > > If not, I guess I will have to contact a sysop.. > > > That would kind of defeat the purpose of the max execution time. AFAIK > the page should still have been saved, just not have been parsed > completely. You can check this in the history view. > > You can ask a sysop to raise the max exec time, or to import these > large pages using the importTextFile.php maintenance script. > > Roan Kattouw (Catrope) > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:39:58 +0300 > From: Robert Ullmann <rlullmann(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [Mediawiki-api] login from multiple (two) places? > To: "MediaWiki API announcements & discussion" > <mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: > <AANLkTillFYQg-wnd6UMibKx6VUF7EsKmF4erp39KdAMR(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Hi, > > I haven't been able to figure this out from the doc ... > > Can I log in a user (bot) from more than one place (IP address) at the > same time? I have an impending need to run Interwicket from more than > one place, as the primary will be unavailable at times. Is logging in > the other system going to log out the first, or some such? any bad > effects? > > Robert > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:55:46 +0200 > From: Roan Kattouw <roan.kattouw(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-api] login from multiple (two) places? > To: "MediaWiki API announcements & discussion" > <mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: > <AANLkTikGvBlnNhmwINZUSpfJZQaxfyR8wUN1lnvxGiph(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > 2010/7/14 Robert Ullmann <rlullmann(a)gmail.com>: > > Hi, > > > > I haven't been able to figure this out from the doc ... > > > > Can I log in a user (bot) from more than one place (IP address) at the > > same time? I have an impending need to run Interwicket from more than > > one place, as the primary will be unavailable at times. Is logging in > > the other system going to log out the first, or some such? any bad > > effects? > > > I believe it will cause such an effect, yes. AFAIK the only reliable > way to be logged in in two places at once is to log in in one place > and transfer the information in the login cookies to the second place. > > I think you should just try it and see what happens; worst case you > can detect you've been logged out and log in again, although that > might not be very nice if you run stuff simultaneously from two > places, as they'll spend a lot of time competing for logged-in status. > > Roan Kattouw (Catrope) > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:54:00 +0300 > From: Robert Ullmann <rlullmann(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-api] login from multiple (two) places? > To: "MediaWiki API announcements & discussion" > <mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: > <AANLkTinZEQJxvQ_QPe03kB1LzxiWZ_t-8q5tBlsPvwYl(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Interesting. > > I log in from two places and I get different session identifiers (not > surprising), but the *same* token. > > Apparently the problem is that if one logs out from anywhere, it > invalidates everywhere. Not too sure about the exact conditions, > because it is rather painful. (;-) But bots don't usually log out, so > that isn't an issue, they stay logged in for years. > > Might be okay. > > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Roan Kattouw <roan.kattouw(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > > 2010/7/14 Robert Ullmann <rlullmann(a)gmail.com>: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I haven't been able to figure this out from the doc ... > >> > >> Can I log in a user (bot) from more than one place (IP address) at the > >> same time? I have an impending need to run Interwicket from more than > >> one place, as the primary will be unavailable at times. Is logging in > >> the other system going to log out the first, or some such? any bad > >> effects? > >> > > I believe it will cause such an effect, yes. AFAIK the only reliable > > way to be logged in in two places at once is to log in in one place > > and transfer the information in the login cookies to the second place. > > > > I think you should just try it and see what happens; worst case you > > can detect you've been logged out and log in again, although that > > might not be very nice if you run stuff simultaneously from two > > places, as they'll spend a lot of time competing for logged-in status. > > > > Roan Kattouw (Catrope) > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mediawiki-api mailing list > > Mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 8 > Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:37:57 -0400 > From: "Carl (CBM)" <cbm.wikipedia(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-api] login from multiple (two) places? > To: "MediaWiki API announcements & discussion" > <mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: > <AANLkTimckxckEmCjvLa-7qUziinfByG78EFdJUyY-TQk(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 7:39 AM, Robert Ullmann <rlullmann(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > > Can I log in a user (bot) from more than one place (IP address) at the > > same time? > > Yes; it works fine. I do it all the time with a script running on a > remote server at the same time I am logged in on my local computer. I > have never encountered any difficulties. > > - Carl > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 9 > Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 14:36:51 +0300 > From: rashi dhing <rashi.dhing(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [Mediawiki-api] Mediawiki adds extra lines > To: mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Message-ID: > <AANLkTinRh59-9g_1YZK_i3jM0RnkDHHmGzrthdaozkAt(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Does anyone know how to remove the line breaks and the <p> and <pre> tags > that mediawiki seems to add internally > while publishing a page. I am working on this project where any text added > by the user in the wiki is processed and > transferred to an editor and while i am trying to maintain the alignment, > mediawiki tends to add extra spaces and lines. > How can I take care of this ? > > Thanks, > > Rashi D. >

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how to set flags to on in the api?
by Python Script 22 Jul '10

22 Jul '10

I'm trying to edit a page, and the api documentation says to "set the flag to on" for items like the bot flag, minor flag, etc. How do I set these to on? I'm using a python interface to the api that has a format like "action":"edit" for post requests. I've tried "bot":"true" , "bot":"on" , "bot":"1" etc and I can't seem to get it to work. Thanks for the help!

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