Mediawiki-api February 2011

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18 discussions

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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Post data size limit
by Mohamed Mahir Ahamed Ibrahim 05 Mar '11

05 Mar '11

Hi Is there size limit restriction in post method using API? Thanks Mahir

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Fetching images from Wikimedia Commons
by S Vashisht 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

Hello, How can I fetch images from Wikimedia Commons ? I'm able to get a list of all images in an article through this query: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&page=Norway&prop=images&form… What query should I use to fetch thumbnails and full size images of listed image titles ? Regards, Siteshwar Vashisht

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query API / imageinfo scaling broken?
by Pierre-Olivier Latour 28 Feb '11

28 Feb '11

Hi everyone, It appears that since today, the "iiurlwidth" and "iiurlheight" parameters of the query API / imageinfo are ignored and these elements are missing from the returned XML: - thumburl - thumbwidth - thumbheight The doc still says: iiurlwidth - If iiprop=url is set, a URL to an image scaled to this width will be returned. Only the current version of the image can be scaled Default: -1 iiurlheight - Similar to iiurlwidth. Cannot be used without iiurlwidth Default: -1 I don't remember seeing any "BREAKING CHANGE" email on this list about this: did I miss anything? In any case, this breaks badly our free Discover app for iPad which had close to 1,000,000 downloads and a ton of enthusiastic users (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id384224429?mt=8). Any help on what's happening would be very valuable. Thanks in advance! PS: Sample API request done by the app and observed result: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=imageinfo&titles=File:B… <?xml version="1.0"?> <api> <query> <normalized> <n from="File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-2004-0099,_Kaiser_Friedrich_III..jpg" to="File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-2004-0099, Kaiser Friedrich III..jpg"/> </normalized> <pages> <page ns="6" title="File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-2004-0099, Kaiser Friedrich III..jpg" missing="" imagerepository="shared"> <imageinfo> <ii timestamp="2008-12-12T22:17:03Z" size="44861" width="553" height="800" url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-20…" descriptionurl="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-2004-0099,_Kai…" metadata="" mime="image/jpeg"/> </imageinfo> </page> </pages> </query> </api> -Pierre ________________________________ Pierre-Olivier Latour pol(a)cooliris.com

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Parsing MediaWiki markup to HTML
by S Vashisht 26 Feb '11

26 Feb '11

Hello, I'm trying to learn how to convert MediaWiki markup to HTML. One of the ways I've figured out is by sending a query to api.php: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&text={{Project:Sandbox}}&for… After parsing response which I get is all special characters in HTML are kind of escaped. For e.g. < is < So <a> becomes <a> Is there any way to disable this feature ? Regards, Siteshwar Vashisht

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How to detect redirect and its target to/from a page?
by Ma Kevin 24 Feb '11

24 Feb '11

Dear All, I'm new to MediaWiki, sorry if my question is trite but I still can't find answers in any page. In MediaWiki API:Properties (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Properties), we can know if a page is a redirect. BUT How to detect WHERE a page is redirected TO, and redirected FROM? How to check which page is the start, middle, or end of a redirect chain? Could you please point me to the right direction? Regards,Kevin.

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API parsing method + CURL delay/timeout
by miguel 21 Feb '11

21 Feb '11

Hello, I am extracting wikipedia articles via mediawiki API (example : http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&prop=text&page=Olive&format=… ) and it's working quite well most of the time but sometimes the API makes a delay to answer or worse I got no response at all from the API and my request fall into timeout (tried many different CURL timeout params to resolve it but nothing is absolutely safe (ie : 2 retries + 7 sec exec timeout) ... The problem occurs randomly on any size of article (big or small). And I noticed that after a failure it always work with a second manual attempt... TECH: I am using package SxWiki (SxWiki.inc.php) + CURL methods included CURL ERROR: Operation timed out after 7000 milliseconds with 0 bytes received *** Do you know that kind of problems with the API ? Wikipedia API overload ?? Im trying to find a solution for weeks now and no method is 100% reliable! Thank you for your help. Oskar

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Get original author
by Juan Manuel Doren 20 Feb '11

20 Feb '11

Hi! How can I get the original author of an article?

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Continuation question
by Andrew Chapman 17 Feb '11

17 Feb '11

I'm trying to work out how to get a list of all categories a page is in, including the sizes of those categories. If I do this: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=categories&cllimit=100&… I get all the categories, but no info about their size. But if I do this: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&generator=categories&titles=… I get all the size info, but only the first 10 categories. It looks like the answer is to use the continue option (cicontinue?) but I don't understand how to do that. Sorry if this is a dumb question - can someone clarify. Thanks! Andrew

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