Mediawiki-api March 2012

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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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doc request etiquette best practice`
by Fred Zimmerman 22 Mar '12

22 Mar '12

Hi, I have an application that every five minutes or so comes up with a list of 50-500 Wikipedia individual documents that it wants to request via curl. It wants to get them as quickly and as completely as possible with minimal missed documents or dropped connections. 1) what is the etiquette for how to do this politely? 2) what are the best practice for using curl to submit API requests? * is it best to use a single curl command with a long list of URLs to get, or a long list of individual curl commands? * compressed or not? * retry values? * max-redirs? * other parameters? FredZ ----------------------------------------------------- Subscribe to the Nimble Books Mailing List http://eepurl.com/czS- for monthly updates

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API Account Creation
by Jim Safley 15 Mar '12

15 Mar '12

Has there been any movement toward API account creation? [1] I maintain several projects that use the API to embed a MediaWiki-type interface into a CMS. As it stands now, I need to tell my users to go to the MediaWiki interface to create an account -- a discombobulating experience for many. Jim [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Account_creation

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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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Wikipedia data extraction
by Ashish Mukherjee 03 Mar '12

03 Mar '12

Hi, I am using the following perl modules to extract data from Wikipedia and Wikitravel respectively - - WWW::Wikipedia - MediaWiki::API >From both these APIs and also by looking at the MediaWiki APIs, I seem to get the entire chunk of text in the Web Service response. To extract different sections of the Wiki entry, I have to rely on pattern matching and regular expressions. Is there a better way to achieve this? Is there some sample code in any language (preferably, perl) which anyone can share, or is there some tool which does this out of the box? Any help would be appreciated. Regards, Ashish

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