Mediawiki-api July 2011

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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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[Mediawiki-api-announce] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Protocol-relative URLs enabled on test.wikipedia.org
by Roan Kattouw 14 Oct '11

14 Oct '11

Per the below, protocol-relative URLs are now enabled on test.wikipedia.org and will be rolled out to the rest of the wikis over the course of the next few weeks. What this means is that URLs used in the interface will now look like //example.com instead of http://example.com , so we can support both HTTP and HTTPS without splitting our cache. The API, in most cases, will not output protocol-relative URLs, but will continue to output http:// URLs no matter whether you call it over HTTP or HTTPS. This is because we don't expect API clients to be able to resolve these correctly, and that the context of these URLs (which is needed to resolve them) will frequently get lost along the way. And we don't wanna go breaking clients, now, do we? :) The exceptions to this, as far as I am aware, are: * HTML produced by the parser will have protocol-relative URLs in <a href="..."> tags etc. * prop=extlinks and list=exturlusage will output URLs verbatim as they appear in the article, which means they may output protocol-relative URLs If you are getting protocol-relative URLs in some other place, that's probably a bug (or maybe it's intentional and I forgot to list it here), so please let me know, or e-mail this list, or file bug, if you see that happening. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ryan Lane <rlane32(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 8:55 PM Subject: [Wikitech-l] Protocol-relative URLs enabled on test.wikipedia.org To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Over the past couple days Roan Kattouw and I have been pushing out changes to enable protocol-relative URL support. We've gotten to a point where we think it is stable and working. We've enabled this on test.wikipedia.org, and plan on running it for two weeks before enabling it elsewhere. Please test if everything is working properly, especially with regards to the API and bots. Report bugs in bugzilla if any are found. - Ryan _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api-announce mailing list Mediawiki-api-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api-announce

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api.php file not found
by Erel Segal 02 Aug '11

02 Aug '11

Hi, I have Mediwiki 1.13.1: http://irsrv2.cs.biu.ac.il/wiki and I cannot find the api.php page. When I open the url: http://irsrv2.cs.biu.ac.il/w/api.php I get a "File not found" error. How can I enable the api.php?

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wikipedia commons - how do you get the license of a image?
by Zhao Han 29 Jul '11

29 Jul '11

So, how do you get the license of a image? Seems there is no straightforward way. For example, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Turner,_J._M._W._-_The_Fighting_T%C3… in the public domain. Thanks, Zhao

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question about api-login
by Berninger Leif-Ingo 27 Jul '11

27 Jul '11

Hi, i want to login to my mediawiki site from an external java class. I already have successfully sent the first request and received the token. After that i have sent the second request with a generated cookie. I received the success message as result. But im still not loged in. I tryed to send the three cookies with username, id and token after the success message as a third request, but it didnt work. I think there is something wrong with my third request, could you please describe me how i have to send these three cookies after receiving the success message. (Oh and sorry for my bad english) best regards Berninger Ingo

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by Tony Sidaway 26 Jul '11

26 Jul '11

http://ranfanimation.com/google.php

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by Tony Sidaway 26 Jul '11

26 Jul '11

http://theepoolmedic.com/google.php

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Question about the JSON format
by Justin Zhang 18 Jul '11

18 Jul '11

Hi all, First, thank you for viewing my post. I'm working on product to get information from wiki and show them in office application. And when I am working with MediaWiki APIs, I found a problem. I use C# to build my application and I get the query result from MediaWiki by Json format. And my problem is that Some APIs will return a json object which cannot be deserialized to a C# object. For example, when I try to get the image list of Seattle<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle>,(the request url is this<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=images&imlimit=6&titles…>) The result will be: [image: JSON%20result.jpg] Please check the red box in the picture above. As we know that JSON is a key/value based format and in the red box, this key is dynamically generated according to the page id. in this way, this json is unable to be deserialized to a C# object since I have to map a C# property to a const key/ID in code. I just wonder why MediaWiki do this? if MediaWiki APIs wants to support to show multipage in query result, probably it should use Array to show all page info? -- Thanks, Justin Zhang

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Fetching external links from articles
by Siteshwar Vashisht 01 Jul '11

01 Jul '11

Hi, How can I fetch links which are shown in the external links section of every article. It's possible to fetch all external links inside a given page using this query: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&page=Norway&prop=externallin… But I want to fetch links in External Links section only. What query should I use ? -- "A belief may be larger than a fact." Vannevar Bush

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