Mediawiki-api August 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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How to retrieve TEXT without picture through the API ?
by 陈文 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

Hi How to retrieve TEXT without picture through the API ? thx

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Really slow API queries
by Nicolas Vervelle 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

Hi, API queries seem to take a very long time to complete (dozen of seconds), even basic ones. This happened in the last hour so. Nico

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12 Aug '10

Greetings, I'm having a weird problem using my under-construction Ruby API library to talk to Wikimedia wikis. Login to eg. en.wikipedia.org seems to work fine: REQ: {"format"=>"xml", "lgpassword"=>"XXX", "action"=>"login", "lgdomain"=>"local", "lgname"=>"Jpatokal"} RES: <api><login result='NeedToken' cookieprefix='enwiki' token='b07fdd1582a3faeed6244b58577a2b19' sessionid='e310ae7389c8364e7ff4ac2e91258e54'/></api> REQ: {"format"=>"xml", "lgpassword"=>"XXX", "action"=>"login", "lgdomain"=>"local", "lgtoken"=>"b07fdd1582a3faeed6244b58577a2b19", "lgname"=>"Jpatokal"} RES: <api><login result='Success' lguserid='8155' cookieprefix='enwiki' lgusername='Jpatokal' sessionid='e310ae7389c8364e7ff4ac2e91258e54' lgtoken='3006f107e16173abcc8d9a2d46fbfea4'/></api> I can request an edit token for a page and get back a seemingly suitable one: REQ: {"intoken"=>"edit", "format"=>"xml", "action"=>"query", "titles"=>"User:Jpatokal/Sandbox", "prop"=>"info"} RES: <api><query><pages><page starttimestamp='2010-08-11T10:26:00Z' pageid='26692065' touched='2010-04-23T04:55:02Z' lastrevid='357765946' title='User:Jpatokal/Sandbox' edittoken='6069665f65933586ddfa540d38d30d6a+\' ns='2' counter='0' length='67'/></pages></query></api> However, when I send it back, it's rejected with "badtoken". REQ: {"format"=>"xml", "title"=>"User:Jpatokal/Sandbox", "token"=>"6069665f65933586ddfa540d38d30d6a+\\", "text"=>"haxx0r", "action"=>"edit", "summary"=>""} RES: <api><error code='badtoken' info='Invalid token'/></api> What's wrong? The same sequence works fine on my local test wiki. Here's a packet trace of the actual edit request, which looks fine to me, including the URL-encoding of the token: POST /w/api.php HTTP/1.1 Accept: */*; q=0.5, application/xml User-Agent: MediaWiki::Gateway/0.0.1 Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Cookie: centralauth_Session=f5b0c979d3097489deca4b759f9d49af;centralauth_Token=8f57e36225df5a8f71cfd623718dff59;centralauth_User=Jpatokal;domain=.wikipedia.org;enwikiUserID=8155;enwikiUserName=Jpatokal Content-Length: 120 Host: en.wikipedia.org format=xml&title=User%3AJpatokal%2FSandbox&token=6069665f65933586ddfa540d38d30d6a%2B%5C&text=haxx0r&action=edit&summary= Cheers, -jani

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DB connection error
by Robert Ullmann 11 Aug '10

11 Aug '10

Hi, This started happening a few minutes ago: (mwapi putedit error: u'<?xml version="1.0"?><api><error code="internal_api_error_DBConnectionError" info="Exception Caught: DB connection error: Unknown error (10.0.6.26)" xml:space="preserve">\n\n#0 /usr/local/apache/common-local/wmf-deployment/includes/db/LoadBalancer.php(685): DatabaseBase->reportConnectionError(\'Unkn', page u'[[fi:aero]]') eh? best, Robert

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How to retrieve category tree through the API?
by Pierre-Olivier Latour 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

Hi, Is there a way to walk the category tree down or up using http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php? I couldn't figure it out. -Pierre ________________________________ Pierre-Olivier Latour pol(a)cooliris.com

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