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
I want to add a widget to a web page that will allow user to enter search
terms and search wikimedia for images that match the terms. I have
implemented a similar widget for flickr, using their API, but am having
trouble doing the same with wikimedia.
Basically, I would like to replicate the functionality of the
commons.wikimedia.org search page. Ideally I would like to be able to get a
Category listing (ex. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chartres_Cathedral)
or a true search results (ex.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=%22c…),
but at this point I would be happy with either.
I've tried using the allimages list, but that is not adequate. Is there any
other way to search images using the API?
I have also been looking at Freebase and DBPedia. These seem like they
might do what I want, but RDF is completely new to me and I'm still trying
to figure out the basics of it. If anyone can point me in the right
direction for either of those resources, I would appreciate it.
Regards.
Tim Helck
Hello
http://en.wiktionary.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=query&titles=murky&rv…
yields json contents for the word 'murky'.
content = json_returned_content.
content
{"query":{"pages":{"54377":{"pageid":54377,"ns":0,"title":"murky","revisions":[{"*":"==English==\n\n===Etymology===\nCognate
to or directly from {{etyl|non}} {{term|myrkr}}. Compare Russian,
Serbian [[\u043c\u0440\u0430\u043a]].\n\n===Pronunciation===\n*
{{audio|en-us-murky.ogg|Audio (US)}}\n\n*
{{rhymes|\u025c\u02d0(r)ki}}\n\n===Adjective===\n{{en-adj|murkier|murkiest}}\n\n#
Hard to see through, as a fog or mist.\n# [[gloomy|Gloomy]], [[dark]],
[[dim]].\n# [[obscure|Obscure]], [[indistinct]], [[cloudy]].\n#
Dishonest, [[shady]].\n\n====Synonyms====\n* [[dark]]\n\n====Related
terms====\n* [[murk]]\n* [[murkily]]\n*
[[murkiness]]\n\n====Translations====\n{{trans-top|hard to see
through}}\n* Dutch: [[troebel]], [[troebele]]\n* Finnish:
{{t+|fi|samea}}\n* French: {{t+|fr|sombre}}, {{t+|fr|trouble}}\n*
German: {{t+|de|d\u00fcster}}, {{t+|de|tr\u00fcb}}\n{{trans-mid}}\n*
Romanian: {{t-|ro|tulbure}}\n* Russian:
{{t|ru|\u043c\u0443\u0442\u043d\u044b\u0439|tr=m\u00fatnyj}}\n*
[[Scots]]: {{t\u00f8|sco|mirk|xs=Scots}}\n{{trans-bottom}}\n{{trans-see|gloomy}}\n{{trans-see|obscure}}\n{{trans-top|dishonest,
shady}}\n* Russian:
{{t+|ru|\u0442\u0451\u043c\u043d\u044b\u0439|tr=t'\u00f3mnyj}},
{{t+|ru|\u0433\u0440\u044f\u0437\u043d\u044b\u0439|tr=gr'\u00e1znyj}}\n{{trans-mid}}\n{{trans-bottom}}\n{{checktrans-top}}\n*
{{ttbc|da}}: {{t-|da|m\u00f8rk}}, {{t-|da|dunkel}},
{{t-|da|dyster}}\n* {{ttbc|he}}: [[\u05e2\u05db\u05d5\u05e8,
\u05de\u05d8\u05d5\u05e9\u05d8\u05e9]]\n{{trans-mid}}\n* {{ttbc|is}}:
[[myrkr]]\n{{trans-bottom}}\n\n====External links====\n* {{R:Webster
1913}}\n* {{R:Century
1911}}\n\n[[et:murky]]\n[[io:murky]]\n[[kn:murky]]\n[[lt:murky]]\n[[hu:murky]]\n[[mg:murky]]\n[[ml:murky]]\n[[my:murky]]\n[[pl:murky]]\n[[ru:murky]]\n[[fi:murky]]\n[[sv:murky]]\n[[ta:murky]]\n[[te:murky]]\n[[vi:murky]]\n[[zh:murky]]"}]}}}}
content['query']['pages']['54377']['revisions][0]['*'] yields meaning
and other related contents.
I am interested to retrieve the meaning of the word. how can I do it?
In this scenario I find api to be unusable since pageid is dynamically
generated which is required to access the contents.
Yes I can use xml and find contents inside <rev></rev> tag, but how
will some one fetch synonym alone and part of speech alone?
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kracekumar
www.kracekumar.com
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Hi,
would you know how i could use the API to get articles about musicians
among disambiguation results ?
Examples are "Queen" and "Calvin Russell" which can refer to different
things.
I guess i have to find a way to specify "Music", which is the name of a
disambiguation section that often appear in those pages.
I've tryed several manners like:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&rvprop=conten…
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=search&srlimit=5&format…
But i don't see a way to do thing without excessive parsing and querying.
Thanks in advance,
regards,
Adrien
Hi,
I'm creating a .Net library to access the API, but I'm not sure how to
approach selecting what properties should the result have.
For example, when the user wants to access “info” of some page, I want
to offer him all the available properties. And if he selects “length”
and “fullurl”, I should form URL like
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=info&titles=Main%20Page…
The “length” property is included by default, and “fullurl” is added
by “inprop=url”.
I can get most other information about the structure of the API by
using “action=paraminfo”, but information about what result properties
are available and how they correspond to the prop values seems to be
missing.
Is this information available somewhere? Is trying the query and
seeing what properties are returned the best I can do currently? Do
you think it would be a good idea if I (or someone else) modified
“action=paraminfo” to include this information in some form?
Petr Onderka
[[en:User:Svick]]
I'm computing the url of an image by the following:
(the md5 of the first char and the second two chars concat)
val md = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5")
val messageDigest = md.digest(fileName.getBytes)
val md5 = (new BigInteger(1, messageDigest)).toString(16)
val hash1 = md5.substring(0, 1)
val hash2 = md5.substring(0, 2)
val urlPart = hash1 + "/" + hash2 + "/" + fileName
Most of the time, the function works correctly but on a few cases, it
is incorrect:
For "Stewie_Griffin.png", I get 2/26/Stewie_Griffin.png but the real
one is 0/02/Stewie_Griffin.png
The source file info is here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stewie_Griffin.pnghttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/02/Stewie_Griffin.png
Any ideas why the hashing scheme doesn't work sometimes?
I posted this question on stackoverflow but I might be able to get a
better answer here.http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8389616/does-wikipedia-use-differen…
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http://tommy.chheng.com
Hello,
Question: is it possible to display the latest version of a
wikipedia.orgpage in another mediawiki site simply by GET using the
API:import <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Import>? Or is there an
easier way?
More info:
I am building my first wiki using Mediawiki 1.17 @ http://fa.irfanpedia.org I
am total mediawiki newbie.
The site will contain original research about Irfan, a form of Gnosticism,
similar to sufism.
As a convenience to users, I would like to display the latest content on
Wikipedia about the subject. The exact pages have already been identified.
I've already read about xml export/import. But I need the latest version of
the page and not have to constantly export from wikipedia manually.
So is it possible to create a URL for each target page so that on the fly
pulls the content of a particular wikipedia.org page in the destination
site? A 1:1 relationship.
If so, is this mailing list the right place to ask for technical help? the
process for obtaining a token - I can't figure it out. Or not sure if the
xml produced by the action=import can be immediately displayed to user or
it still has to go through another step before it is human-readable.
Thank you in advance.
