Mediawiki-api September 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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Mediawiki Wikipedia API bug
by Alex Sm 01 Oct '11

01 Oct '11

Looks like this hack for iOS clients doesn't play well with secure server: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/w/api.php?action=parse&prop=text&… outputs this incorrect link without "s" in "http": http://en.wikipedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Test Just though I let you know in case this breaks something more important than my ajaxPreview script. AlexSm

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Mediawiki Wikipedia API bug
by Michael Douma 30 Sep '11

30 Sep '11

Regarding the change from "http://" to "//", this also broke our iOS app, WikiNodes. Our popular Wikipedia browser app is now nonfunctional. We'd be grateful if you could roll back the change for approx 10 days. We can submit an update to the Apple App Store on Monday, which will then take 7 days to be approved. If you could postpone this change until 10-October, we can fix the code on our side. Thanks, Michael Douma www.idea.org

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search articles by part of the title name
by Dalkandura Arachchige Gunaratna 30 Sep '11

30 Sep '11

Hi, I want to search for articles using special words in the title name or url of the page. For example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_districts_of_Sri_Lanka web page lists the districts and page title in the url starts with List_of word. I want to search for articles that has "List_of" word part in the page title (which can be seen as the part of the url). I have used "query" command previously to search for a specific title that I knew the title to search but in this case, I want to get the list of articles having this word part as the title in the URL. Does anybody know how to d this? Or all I can do is get a list of articles randomly and search for "List_of" part in them? Thank you. Kalpa Gunaratna

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GET vs POST
by Jani Patokallio 29 Sep '11

29 Sep '11

Greetings, I seem to recall that once upon a time the API requires all requests to be POST, but apparently GET is now allowed as well, and preferred for cachability. The API:Quick start page links to http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:FAQ#GET_or_POST.3F, but apparently this link is broken and (as far as I can tell?) has never existed in the history. So two questions: 1) When was the change made, or has it been this way all along? 2) Is there are list of which operations require POST? Browsing through the docs, at least login and edit seem to, but is there a consolidated list? The Perl MediaWiki::API module suggests that GET is allowed only for query, logout, purge, and paraminfo. Cheers, -jani

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writing user options?
by Jim Tittsler 29 Sep '11

29 Sep '11

Is there a write method available for changing user options or email address? I would like to make an AJAX-driven alternative to a couple of the user preferences.

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Mediawiki Wikipedia API bug
by Robert Chin 29 Sep '11

29 Sep '11

There appears to be some sort of bug affecting a subset of pages that started happening yesterday night. Certain <img src=> tags on Wikipedia's API are being served with an invalid URL, missing the scheme in front: <img src="//bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.17/common/images/magnify-clip.png"> This is seen on http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&page=Cereal However certain other pages, such as http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&page=Actinide appear to be fine. Please let me know if this e-mail should go to some Wikipedia list instead. Thanks, Robert

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query a wikipedia page
by Dalkandura Arachchige Gunaratna 14 Sep '11

14 Sep '11

Hi, Can anybody point me to an API call that I can use to search for an URL of Wikipedia and get the whole page content? Kalpa Gunaratna

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API and memcached
by Aaron Kitzmiller 09 Sep '11

09 Sep '11

Does anyone know if there are particular issues with logging in to the MediaWiki API when memcached is used for session information? I'm using the Perl MediaWiki::Bot to login to a 1.16 MediaWiki. When php.ini is modified to use files for session information, the Perl code works. When php.ini is modified to use memcached, then the Perl code doesn't work. Aaron K. Aaron Kitzmiller Consultant The BioTeam, Inc. Phone/fax: (888)-334-7673 Email: aaron(a)bioteam.net

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