Mediawiki-api May 2012

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15 discussions

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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Mobile content: how to get content with the section buttons
by Asher Szmulewicz 09 May '12

09 May '12

Hi All, I am using url like http://en.wikipedia.org//w/api.php?action=parse&format=json&page=New_York_C… I am getting the full content of the mobile page without the buttons: History,Geography,Demographics etc... Is it possible to get the full mobile content with the section buttons? Thanks Asher Szmulewicz

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174 more edits the last 180 days than she ever has done
by La Vallen 03 May '12

03 May '12

Can you explain this: http://sv.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=userdailycontribs&user=ErfgoedBot&… ErfoedBot has according to this made 6 edits totally on sv.wikipedia, but 140 last 180 days. All these 6 edits are made on one single user-page. Also strange is Perfect: http://sv.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=userdailycontribs&user=Perfect&day… According to this he has made 593 edits totally, and 4584 edits the last 180 days. The typical behavior of Perfect is that he is doing a lot of edits in ns-project and ns-user. Have I missunderstod something about this api? /Ronnie

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Listing all words of given language
by Łukasz Czyż 02 May '12

02 May '12

Hello All! Is that possible to get list containing all Wiktionary words of given language through API? I have been looking on api documentation for this but found no solution. thanks Lukasz

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Are pages in prop queries continuous?
by Petr Onderka 01 May '12

01 May '12

Hi, if I'm making a query using one of the prop modules, can I rely on the fact that all results for certain page will be together in the API pages? In other words, if I find some results for some page on API page n and no results on API page n+1, can I be sure there will be no results on pages > n? Why do I want to know this: I am writing a library to access the API and every collection in my library is lazy. For example, a user requests to know categories of pages in Category:Query languages. When he starts iterating over the result, I execute the query: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&generator=categorymembers&gc… When he then requests to know the categories of the third page in the result (Access query language), I will return to him the categories from the first query. If he requests more, I execute the query: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&generator=categorymembers&gc… This query doesn't give me any new categories for that page. My question is: can I be sure that I won't get any further results for this page, if I continue to increment clcontinue? I think the answer is yes in this specific case, because the first part of clcontinue is pageid, but I am interested in the general answer: does the same apply for all prop modules? Thanks, Petr Onderka [[en:User:Svick]]

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