Mediawiki-api December 2012

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ReWrite questions
by Yuri Astrakhan 17 Dec '12

17 Dec '12

Hi, in the new rewrite branch, what is the best way to do this? * Get all links from a set of pages. If some pages are redirects - get their targets. Only the link ns+titles are needed, no need to check existence/pageid/etc. All this is one API call: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=links&titles=Archiver|A… * Get all links and categories from the result of a generator or a list of titles (from a file). Similar to the above, except for optional generator and there is no redirect param. Once a bad page is found, I will load its content and fix it. The links and categories names are needed only as text string. Thanks! P.S. I have started http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikipediabot/Recipes that should list all encountered bot scenarios and how various versions of pywiki should be used to solve it. Please help by adding your bot's core workflow to that list, and core developers could either suggest better code or alter pywiki framework to better handle such cases.

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by William Donahue 08 Dec '12

08 Dec '12

I want to use the api entry point for a windows 8 rt app I am developing. The application is not a bot, as the requests originate from the users of the app. The also do not originate from a browser, but rather in c# code on the device. The guidelines for api usage indicate that I should send a User Agent, but I’m not sure what I should send in this case. If I have many users of my app, then it may look like I am abusing the api. But it’s the users of my app that are initiating the requests, not a bot. So what should I use as the User Agent in this case? I could use the action=raw parameter of the normal url, but I would prefer using the api as it has more options. Sent from Windows Mail

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Potential API rewrite
by Sumana Harihareswara 04 Dec '12

04 Dec '12

A few weeks ago, a few Wikia and Wikimedia people started talking about rewriting MediaWiki's web API for greater flexibility, usability, and standardization. Notes from that meeting: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API/API_rewrite/Kickoff_meeting Federico Lucignano is one of the main developers on this effort. He will be doing API stuff for Wikia for the next 5 months. Wikia wants to attract motivated app developers and companies using Wikia's products to use the API. They also want to make the APIs more standards-compliant (a RESTful interface, using HTTP verbs), but that's a high-level goal. Mobile-related work is first, driving the direction of some of Federico's work, but this redesign would improve the whole platform, including the enterprise. Wikimedia and Wikia want to work together on this. Wikimedia Foundation also wants to avoid boxing ourselves into special-purpose, specific apps. Right now we're in the very early stages and I believe Wikia's going to put out an RFC -- the initial research we discussed during the kickoff meeting is starting this week. Some people have also begun talking about this issue on the bug " Make MediaWiki more RESTful": https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41837 in case you want to check that out. Welcome, Federico! -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation

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API access to international Wikis?
by Fred Zimmerman 03 Dec '12

03 Dec '12

Hi, is there API access to the international Wikis (non English language)? If so, which ones? Fred

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Duplicate files query failing
by Sreejith K. 02 Dec '12

02 Dec '12

I was testing the duplicate files api and apparently it fails for some inputs. I am not able to find a pattern though. An example api query which fails: http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&generator=allimages&pro… Am I doing something wrong? - Sreejith K.

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Mediawiki-api December 2012