Mediawiki-api December 2011

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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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can I use the API to search for images in commons.wikimedia.org?
by Timothy Helck 10 Mar '12

10 Mar '12

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

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How to parse the contents
by kracekumar ramaraju 02 Jan '12

02 Jan '12

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? -- * Thanks & Regards "Talk is cheap, show me the code" -- Linus Torvalds kracekumar www.kracekumar.com *

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Get the right article among disambiguation results
by Adrien ANDRE 17 Dec '11

17 Dec '11

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

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action=undelete limit on timestamps?
by Jim Tittsler 16 Dec '11

16 Dec '11

Is there a limit on the number of timestamps of a page that can be undeleted in a single API call? -- Jim Tittsler http://www.OnNZ.net/ GPG: 0x01159DB6 Python Starship http://Starship.Python.net/crew/jwt/ Mailman IRC irc://irc.freenode.net/#mailman

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Getting list of possible result properties
by Petr Onderka 09 Dec '11

09 Dec '11

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]]

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Does wikipedia use different methods to compute the hash part of an image path?
by Tommy Chheng 08 Dec '11

08 Dec '11

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.png http://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… -- @tommychheng http://tommy.chheng.com

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Possible to use API:Import to display Wikipedia.org pages inside another wiki on the fly?
by AT 03 Dec '11

03 Dec '11

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.

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