Mediawiki-api September 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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Attention MediaWiki Hackers!
by Chad 06 Oct '10

06 Oct '10

(sending to main tech lists, crossposted to Tech Blog[0], feel free to forward anywhere else you'd like) Greetings MediaWiki hackers! I am pleased to announce the upcoming MediaWiki Hack-A-Ton in Washington, DC. As you are all aware, every year in April our good friends at Wikimedia Deutschland host the annual "MediaWiki Developers Meetup" in Berlin. At that event, the program is focused on demonstrations, workshops and small group discussions. To complement this, we're planning the DC meetup to be focused solely on hacking, bugfixing and getting down and dirty with the code. We're scheduling this for October 22nd-24th in Washington, DC. Some of the details haven't been ironed out yet, but will be announced over the coming days as it is. So clear your calendars, and keep your eyes on MediaWiki.org[1] and the mailing lists for more information. Some travel assistance may be available for those coming a long way. I've also been told there will be swag of some sort for attendees :) -Chad [0] http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2010/09/hack-a-ton-dc/ [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hack-A-Ton_DC

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API to get just the Table part of an article
by Chandra Sekhar B 28 Sep '10

28 Sep '10

Hi, I'm looking for some API that could help me get the "tables" alone from a page if it exists. I've looked at : http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php But nothing seems to be working on tables alone. I'm new here, so if I am not looking at the right place, please point me to appropriate links. Thanks Chandra Sekhar

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List of all Links
by Christian Koncilia 28 Sep '10

28 Sep '10

Hi there, can anybody help me? Why does the following query only return 2 links http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Category:Golf&prop=li nks> &titles=Category:Golf&prop=links although the corresponding Wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Golf) contains 25 links? Thank you very much Christian

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how to compute contributions of new accounts only via API?
by Raymond Yee 27 Sep '10

27 Sep '10

Hi everyone, I'd like to compute user contributions from new accounts only, data that is available from the Wikipedia website under the Special:Contributions page, e.g., http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?limit=50&title=Special:Contributions&co… I've looked through the API documentation (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php), specifically at the section devoted to list=usercontribs, list=recentchanges, and list=logevents but couldn't figure out any combination of parameters to get user contributions from new accounts only. I thought that http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=logevents&letypes=newus… might do the trick but apparently log events are what I'm looking for either. Is it possible to replicate the data from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?limit=50&title=Special:Contributions&co… using the API -- and if so, how? Thanks! -Raymond

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action=parse temporarily disabled on Wikimedia wikis
by Roan Kattouw 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

This afternoon (UTC), the API got overloaded for a while; you may have noticed slow responses or HTTP 504s. Tim tried to solve this by disabling action=parse, which worked surprisingly well. This means action=parse is disabled for now and will remain disabled until I figure out what was going on at the time of the outage. In the meantime, the API will act as though the action=parse module doesn't exist, so you'll get errors along the lines of "unknown value for parameter action: 'parse'". I'll re-enable action=parse once I'm relatively confident it won't cause the entire API to melt down again. Roan Kattouw (Catrope)

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action=parse not supported
by Sergio Camilo Gaona Bautista 21 Sep '10

21 Sep '10

Hi all, You know what happened with API today? Did it change some functions? action=parse is not being supported anymore. So what is new API to get article content? Best regards, Sergio Gaona Bautista ________________________________ "El contenido de este documento y/o sus anexos son para uso exclusivo de su destinatario intencional y puede contener Informaci?n legalmente protegida por ser privilegiada o confidencial. Si usted no es el destinatario intencional de este documento por favor Inf?rmenos de inmediato y elimine el documento y sus anexos. Igualmente cualquier retenci?n, revisi?n no autorizada, distribuci?n, divulgaci?n, reenv?o, copia, impresi?n, reproducci?n, o uso indebido de este documento y/o sus anexos, est? estrictamente prohibida y sancionada legalmente. Agradecemos su atenci?n. UNE EPM Telecomunicaciones S.A." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The contents of this document and / or its attachments are for exclusive use of the intended recipient and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this document please inform us immediately and delete the document and its attachments. Likewise, any retention, unauthorized review, distribution, disclosure, forwarding, copying, printing, reproduction, or misuse of this document and / or its attachments is strictly prohibited and punishable by law. Thank you for your attention. UNE EPM Telecomunicaciones SA"

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Status 504 when trying to login ?
by Nicolas Vervelle 16 Sep '10

16 Sep '10

Hi, Has there been any change in the API very recently (login request) ? My tool, WikiCleaner [1], stopped working in the last hours : when trying to login, a status 504 (Gateway timeout) is now returned. Thanks for any help Nico [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:NicoV/Wikipedia_Cleaner/Documentation

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Re: [Mediawiki-api] [Wikitech-l] Attention MediaWiki Hackers!
by Chad 16 Sep '10

16 Sep '10

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Aude <aude.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Very awesome that no travel is required! I'm not a hardcore mediawiki > contributor but would like to be more involved, can work on mapping > and data capabilites, or on aspects of core code (If you want help > with something) > Of course all developers are welcome! We're going to be tracking bugs for that weekend using a new keyword in Bugzilla called "bugsmash." (That's also a general invitation for people to start targeting some items for the Hack-A-Ton) > What help do you need from local DC wikipedians? Although we are not > yet a chapter, we could perhaps help with getting a venue (though > danese probably can handle it too) or other ways of helping organize. > I should've reached out to you guys a few weeks ago ;-) The venue is almost settled--hopefully will have an information to share about that this evening. I might need a hand the day before (I will be driving up the 21st) to help me get things organized and ready for everyone's arrival on the 22nd. -Chad

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inprop=views from en.wikipedia.org -- page view counts for Wikipedia articles?
by Brian Skinner 15 Sep '10

15 Sep '10

Hi, I'm looking for help using the MediaWiki API to get some page view counts. I'm able to get page view counts on some sites, such as the wikia muppet site: http://muppet.wikia.com//api.php?action=query&prop=info&titles=Beaker&inpro… But that's not working on en.wikipedia.org: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Health&prop=info&inpr… That gives an error message that says: "Unrecognized value for parameter 'inprop': views". A few questions: + Does that error message happen because Wikipedia is configured with $wgDisableCounters=true, or am I doing something wrong? + Is there some other API that I should look at for getting page counts? + Should I ping Henrik about maybe screen-scraping from his stats.grok.se page traffic stats pages? Thanks, I appreciate any help you can give me. I'm doing this work as part of the Health Speaks effort to translate health information into more languages, and we want to get a sense of how useful the newly translated pages turn out to be. Brian Skinner Health Speaks, Google.org http://sitescontent.google.com/healthspeaks/

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