Mediawiki-api May 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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How to get the array $wgFileExtensions in Localsetting.php
by nguyenkim thuat 03 Jun '12

03 Jun '12

Hi, i upload the files to the mediawiki using the API. i use the code bellow: use strict; use MediaWiki::API; use DateTime::Format::ISO8601; #use encoding 'utf8'; binmode STDERR, ":utf8"; use URI::Escape; use warnings; use MediaWiki::API; my $url="http://localhost/mediawiki"; my $wiki_login="nguyenki"; my $wiki_passwd="linh"; my $wiki_domain=""; my $mediawiki; mw_connect_maybe(); # configure the special upload location. $mediawiki->{config}->{upload_url} = "$url/index.php/Special:Upload"; * my @extensionFiles = ("png","gif","jpg","jpeg","doc","xls","mpp","pdf","ppt","tiff","bmp","docx", "xlsx", "pptx","ps","odt","ods","odp","odg","txt");* my %hashFiles = map { $_ => 1} @extensionFiles; #Test with a file .png *my $name="somefile.png"; * if(exists($hashFiles{substr($name,-3)}) || exists($hashFiles{substr($name,-4)})) { # upload a file to MediaWiki open (my $toi, $name) or die "can't open UTF-8 encoded filename: $!"; binmode $toi; my ($buffer, $data); while (my $n=read($toi, $buffer, 65536) ) { $data .= $buffer; print STDERR "$n bytes read\n"; } close($toi); $mediawiki->upload( { title => $name, summary => 'This is the summary to go on the Image:file.jpg page', data => $data } ) || die $mediawiki->{error}->{code} . ': ' . $mediawiki->{error}->{details}; } else { print "FILE TYPE NOT SUPPORTED\n"; } sub mw_connect_maybe { if ($mediawiki) { return; } $mediawiki = MediaWiki::API->new; $mediawiki->{config}->{api_url} = "$url/api.php"; if ($wiki_login) { if (!$mediawiki->login({ lgname => $wiki_login, lgpassword => $wiki_passwd, lgdomain => $wiki_domain, })) { print STDERR "Failed to log in mediawiki user \"$wiki_login\" on $url\n"; print STDERR "(error " . $mediawiki->{error}->{code} . ': ' . $mediawiki->{error}->{details} . ")\n"; exit 1; } else { print STDERR "Logged in with user \"$wiki_login\".\n"; } } } To test the type of file supported, i have to use this variable: * my @extensionFiles = ("png","gif","jpg","jpeg","doc","xls","mpp","pdf","ppt","tiff","bmp","docx", "xlsx", "pptx","ps","odt","ods","odp","odg","txt"); *if the file name *$name* is not in the array, I'll generate a message error. : *print "FILE TYPE NOT SUPPORTED\n"; *My question is if the user change the type of file supported in the * LocalSettings.php* , this programme is not true any more. How can i get the array *$wgFileExtensions* from the *LocalSettings.php*? Thank. * *

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Image file revisions
by Pavel Volek 30 May '12

30 May '12

Hello, I would like to ask, if the attached files (images, pdf , etc.) have a revision number, or the different revisions of media file differ only in the time stamp? Thank you for response. Pavel Volek

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How to delete the upload file via Mediawiki::API->api
by nguyenkim thuat 29 May '12

29 May '12

Hi, I'm trying to delete the upload file automatically via the Mediawiki::Api->api For the moment, i'm using the code following: *use strict; use MediaWiki::API; use DateTime::Format::ISO8601; binmode STDERR, ":utf8"; use URI::Escape; use warnings; use MediaWiki::API; my $url="http://localhost/mediawiki"; my $wiki_login="nguyenki"; my $wiki_passwd="linh"; my $wiki_domain=""; chomp($wiki_login); chomp($wiki_passwd); chomp($wiki_domain); my $mediawiki; mw_connect_maybe(); my $name="Te5.txt"; my $file="/index.php/File:"; my $path= $url.$file.$name; #my $path= $url.$name # the url to the file: http://localhost/mediawiki/index.php/File:Te5.txt print "$path\n"; #delete a file via mediawiki::API->api $mediawiki->edit({ action => 'delete', title => $path, reason => 'no longer nedded' }) || die $mediawiki-> {error}->{code} . ':' . $mediawiki->{error}->{details}; # Methode to login to mediawiki sub mw_connect_maybe { if ($mediawiki) { return; } $mediawiki = MediaWiki::API->new; $mediawiki->{config}->{api_url} = "$url/api.php"; if ($wiki_login) { if (!$mediawiki->login({ lgname => $wiki_login, lgpassword => $wiki_passwd, lgdomain => $wiki_domain, })) { print STDERR "Failed to log in mediawiki user \"$wiki_login\" on $url\n"; print STDERR "(error " . $mediawiki->{error}->{code} . ': ' . $mediawiki->{error}->{details} . ")\n"; exit 1; } else { print STDERR "Logged in with user \"$wiki_login\".\n"; } } } * But it generated the error: *5:Unable to delete page 'http://localhost/mediawiki/index.php/File:Te5.txt'. Page does not exist. at delete.pl line 26.* Maybe the path to the file doesn't exact but i don't know how to correct it. Hope somebody can give me the ideas. Thank.

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Upload file problem
by nguyenkim thuat 28 May '12

28 May '12

Hi, I'm trying to upload an image to the mediawiki using the Mediawiki::API->upload. To do so, i'm using this code: *# Open a file whose name is $name = "1.jpg"* * open (my $toi,$name) or die "can't open UTF-8 encoded filename: $!"; binmode $toi; my ($buffer, $data); while (my $n=read($toi, $buffer, 65536)) { $data .= $buffer; print STDERR " $n bytes read \n"; } close($toi); * *#upload file my $kq= $mediawiki->upload( { title => $name, summary => 'upload file', data => $data } ) || die $mediawiki-> {error}->{code} . ':' . $mediawiki->{error}->{details};* And it generated an error: *HTTP::Message content must be bytes at /usr/share/perl5/HTTP/Request/Common.pm line 91* I don't know how to correct it. Any suggestion? Thank.

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UploadWizard campaign info API format
by Brion Vibber 24 May '12

24 May '12

I'm adding an API module to retrieve UploadWizard upload campaign information, which we need for the upcoming mobile application for Wiki Loves Monuments. Essentially the app will include a very limited implementation of a couple steps of UploadWizard for things like license selection and filling the ID field and description, so we have one consistent set of configuration for both web upload (using UploadWizard) and mobile uploads (using the app). The change waiting review in gerrit: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/7832/ If anybody's got a prime usage in mind for reading UploadWizard campaign data from the API and has recommendations for adjusting the output format (maybe for making the editing view more AJAX-y) please give a shout -- this is not final and we can adjust it. Currently it'll return XML like this: <?xml version="1.0"?><api> <uploadcampaign> <campaigns> <campaign name="wlm-es" id="2" isenabled="0" autoCategories="" autoWikiText="" defaultAlt="" defaultCategories="" defaultDescription="" defaultLat="" defaultLon="" defaultOwnWorkLicence="cc-by-sa-3.0" headerLabelPage="sdfsdf" idField="sdfafsdfd" idFieldInitialValue="" idFieldLabel="" idFieldLabelPage="" idFieldMaxLength="25" licensesOwnWork="cc-by-sa-3.0|cc-by-3.0|cc-zero" ownWorkOption="choice" skipTutorial="" thanksLabelPage="" tutorialHelpdeskCoords="27, 1319, 691, 1384" tutorialTemplate="Licensing_tutorial_$1.svg" tutorialWidth="720" /> </campaigns> </uploadcampaign></api> or JSON like this: { "uploadcampaign": { "campaigns": [ { "name": "wlm-es", "id": 2, "isenabled": 0, "autoCategories": "", "autoWikiText": "", "defaultAlt": "", "defaultCategories": "", "defaultDescription": "", "defaultLat": "", "defaultLon": "", "defaultOwnWorkLicence": "cc-by-sa-3.0", "headerLabelPage": "sdfsdf", "idField": "sdfafsdfd", "idFieldInitialValue": "", "idFieldLabel": "", "idFieldLabelPage": "", "idFieldMaxLength": "25", "licensesOwnWork": "cc-by-sa-3.0|cc-by-3.0|cc-zero", "ownWorkOption": "choice", "skipTutorial": "", "thanksLabelPage": "", "tutorialHelpdeskCoords": "27, 1319, 691, 1384", "tutorialTemplate": "Licensing_tutorial_$1.svg", "tutorialWidth": "720" } ] } } -- brion

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OAuth
by Chris Steipp 23 May '12

23 May '12

Hello all, There's been a fair amount of discussion on the wikitech-l list about oauth, but I realized some people may be here that are not on that list so I'm cross-posting. Since api users are probably one of the most likely groups to use oauth, I wanted to make sure everyone here had a chance to give input on the requirements. We're collecting user stories here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OAuth/User_stories, and hoping to compile a list of requirements and priorities before the Berlin hackathon. So if you see any uses that are missing from that list, please add it. Or vote for any use cases there that are similar to cases you would use. If you have any projects currently that you would like to use oauth with, please post as many details as possible, so we make sure that the implementation covers as many use cases as we can. Thanks!

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Problem with the mobile api
by Asher Szmulewicz 16 May '12

16 May '12

Hi All, >From this morning the mobile api returns a 500 status code error here is the error If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. PHP fatal error in /usr/local/apache/common-local/php-1.20wmf2/extensions/MobileFrontend/WmlContext.php line 12: Argument 1 passed to WmlContext::__construct() must be an instance of ExtMobileFrontend, none given, called in /usr/local/apache/common-local/php-1.20wmf2/extensions/MobileFrontend/api/ApiParseExtender.php on line 72 and defined here is the url http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&page=Beyond_the_Gates_(disam… I got this error for all the pages I tried. Yesterday I was getting the data, was there a change in the API? When I remove the mobileformat parameter I get the data. Thanks Asher Szmulewicz

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Problem with encoding in API answer when many parameters ?
by Nicolas Vervelle 14 May '12

14 May '12

Hi, Very recently (saturday ?) my application, WPCleaner<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:NicoV/Wikipedia_Cleaner/Documentation>, started to behave strangely (report on enwiki<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3ANicoV%2FWikipedia_Cle…> and frwiki<http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Discussion_utilisateur%3ANicoV%2F…>), without any modfications on my side. I checked what was going on, and it seems that answers from the API have problems with accented characters, like "é". For example, this very long request<http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?prop=templates&action=query&titles=Acteur…>, gives the following result (see the strange characters instead of the é, è, ...) : <?xml version="1.0"?><api> <query> <pages> <page ns="0" title="Les Experts (sÃ©rie tÃ©lÃ©visÃ©e)" missing="" /> <page ns="0" title="Liste des Ã©pisodes des Experts" missing="" /> <page ns="0" title="ModÃ¨le discussion:Palette Les Experts" missing="" /> <page ns="0" title="Personnages rÃ©currents dans Les Experts" missing="" /> <page ns="0" title="SÃ©rie tÃ©lÃ©visÃ©e" missing="" /> <page ns="0" title="Wallace Langham" missing="" /> <page ns="0" title="Ã‰tats-Unis" missing="" /> <page pageid="43579" ns="0" title="Acteur" /> But if I reduce the number of pages in the titles= argument<http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?prop=templates&action=query&titles=Acteur…>, it works again correctly (the "Modèle discussion:Palette Les Experts" is correct, other pages also but below in the answer) : <api> <query> <pages> <page ns="0" title="Modèle discussion:Palette Les Experts" missing="" /> <page pageid="43579" ns="0" title="Acteur" /> <page pageid="4307505" ns="0" title="Albert Robbins" /> <page pageid="5539" ns="0" title="Anglais"> Any idea ? Nico

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Request for Wikipedia API Format.
by Krishna Kranth 09 May '12

09 May '12

Dear Team, I am planning to start a new website containing celebrities from different areas like in sports, movies and politics. For this I am planning to exract data from Wikipedia using API in XML or JSON format. Can someone send me Wikipedia API and the format of response I get? I am pretty much new to this type of technical stuff. I tried going through the document but could not understand much in detail. An example format will be of great use. Thanks in advance. Regards M.Krishna Kranth Team works means more We less Me.

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