Mediawiki-api February 2012

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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 09 Mar '12

09 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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convert API results to HTML
by Fred Zimmerman 23 Feb '12

23 Feb '12

Hi, I am looking for a convenient way to convert individual documents returned from the MediaWiki API to standalone HTML documents. Currently I am retrieving documents via the action/render construct http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?action=render&title=" I am encountering two problems: 1) I have to put a "shell" of crudely cut and pasted <html><head><body> etc. around the rendered html. 2) I need to strip out the external hrefs from the results, and I don't have a good way to do this. I am taking a fresh look and wondering whether I should be retrieving the docs in JSON or XML and then using a conversion program to turn those into nice clean HTML docs. Does anyone have any suggestions or working examples? FredZ ----------------------------------------------------- Subscribe to the Nimble Books Mailing List http://eepurl.com/czS- for monthly updates

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Spoof user during edit?
by Jim Safley 23 Feb '12

23 Feb '12

Is it possible to spoof the user IP address during action=edit? It sounds like an unsavory question, but let me explain. Let's say an anonymous user edits a page in my application, which, in turn, uses a MediaWiki API client to make the necessary token/edit requests. The resulting user is not the IP address of the anonymous user, rather it's the IP address of the API client. As a result, every anonymous user that uses my application is truly, irrevocably anonymous. This is why I wonder if it's possible to send an arbitrary user IP address along with the edit request. Jim

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Save the date: Wikimedia & MediaWiki hackathon in Berlin, 1-3 June 2012
by Sumana Harihareswara 10 Feb '12

10 Feb '12

I invite you to the yearly Berlin hackathon. This is the premier event for the MediaWiki and Wikimedia technical community. We'll be hacking, designing, and socialising. Our goals for the event are to bring 100-150 people together, with lots of people who have not attended such events before. User scripts, gadgets, API use, Toolserver, Wikimedia Labs, mobile, structured data, templates -- if you are into any of these things, we want you to come! Some financial assistance will be available -- more details soon. This event will be hosted by Wikimedia Germany (WMDE) and supported by the Wikimedia Foundation. Thank you, WMDE! Dates: June 1-3 2012. Barely-started wiki page, no registration details yet: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Berlin_Hackathon_2012 . Organizers: me and WMDE's Nicole Ebber with assistance from Lydia Pintscher and Daniel Kinzler. Mark your calendars! -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

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Re: [Mediawiki-api] Proposed removal of some API output formats
by Amgine 09 Feb '12

09 Feb '12

Most of the php bot frameworks, including some which are heavily used on en.WP, use serialized php. I do not believe MW should make such a decision due to IE being a poorly-behaved browser, this being the only argument presented. Amgine

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Proposed removal of some API output formats
by Max Semenik 08 Feb '12

08 Feb '12

Hi, this idea had floated around for quite some time, but now that bug 34257[1] was added to the long list of problems, I would like to step up and start some progress. We[2] propose to remove the following formats[3]: * WDDX - doesn't seem to be used by anyone. Doesn't look sane either. * YAML - we don't serve real YAML anyway, currently it's just a subset of JSON. * rawfm - was created for debugging the JSON formatter aeons ago, not useful for anything now. * txt, dbg, dump - the only reason they were added is that it was possible to add them, they don't serve the purpose of machine/machine communication. So, only 3 formats would remain: * JSON - *the* recommended API format * XML - evil and clumsy but sadly used too widely to be revoved in the foreseeable future * php - this one is used by several extensions and probably by some third-party reusers, so we won't remove it this time. However, any new uses of it should be discouraged. We plan to remove the aforementioned formats as soon as MediaWiki 1.19 is branched so that these changes will take effect in 1.20, but would like to hear from you first if there are good reasons why we shouldn't do it or postpone it. Please have your say. ------ [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34257 [2] Me and Roan Kattouw, one of API's primary developers [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Data_formats -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])

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Content-Length being written twice in HTTP Header
by Tom Hutchison 07 Feb '12

07 Feb '12

I posted this on the talk page for the API. Trying to find an answer. I did try with 16.5, but still the same error, it is reporting a doubled Content-Length. Where in the code is the header formed for content length? Or is it relying on server? Doubled Content-Length in HTTP Header MediaWiki version: 16.0 - also tried 16.5 PHP version: 5.2.17 (cgi) MySQL version: 5.0.91-log URL: www.isogg.org/w/api.php I am trying to track down a bug in the api which is causing a double content-length in the header. This is causing a lot of issues with a python bot. Here is the report from web-sniffer showing the content of the api.php call from this wiki. All other pages when called, i.e. the Main page, etc. only report 1 content-length. Is the api forcing the headers? Why is doubling only the one? Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:31:25 GMT Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Connection: close Server: Nginx / Varnish X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.17 MediaWiki-API-Error: help Cache-Control: private Content-Encoding: gzip Vary: Accept-Encoding Content-Length: 16656 Content-Length: 16656 As you can see this is a Nginx server. On an Apache server with 16.0, only one content-length is sent. Could that be the issue and how do I solve it? Thanks. Tom

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Search acronym words
by Parsa 02 Feb '12

02 Feb '12

Dear Members, I'm using mediawiki API to get a result with the following code: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=opensearch&search=pc&limit=20&form… But if you look at this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC there is description like this: PC most commonly refers to: * Personal computer, a computer whose original sales price, size, and capabilities make it useful for individuals * Political correctness, language or behavior that appears calculated to provide a minimum of offense but with my API, I cannot get such a result. Please help me, how can i change my API to get a result like above. Actually, I want to send an acronym word (e.g. PC) via API and get the suggestions. (e.g: Personal computer, Political Correctness) Please help me to find a solution for that, I searched a lot and I could not find any solution for that. Yours Sincerely Sasan Moshksar

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