Mediawiki-api June 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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by Salah Osman 22 Jun '12

22 Jun '12

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Re: [Mediawiki-api] Upcoming hackathon for experts AND newbies: Washington, DC, USA July 10-11
by Sumana Harihareswara 22 Jun '12

22 Jun '12

On 06/19/2012 03:41 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > This is a reminder that you're invited to the pre-Wikimania hackathon, > 10-11 July in Washington, DC, USA: > > https://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon > > In order to come, you have to register for the Wikimania conference: > > https://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Registration > > (Unfortunately, the period for requesting scholarships is now over.) > > At the hackathon, we'll have trainings and projects for novices, and we > welcome creators of all Wikimedia technologies -- MediaWiki, gadgets, > bots, mobile apps, you name it -- to hack on stuff together and teach > each other. > > Hope to see you! Actually, you don't have to register for Wikimania to come to the hackathon. The registration fee is only required for the main conference days; everyone is welcome to come to the hackathon days and unconference for free. So tell your DC friends to sign up at https://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon and come! -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation

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Upcoming hackathon for experts AND newbies: Washington, DC, USA July 10-11
by Sumana Harihareswara 19 Jun '12

19 Jun '12

This is a reminder that you're invited to the pre-Wikimania hackathon, 10-11 July in Washington, DC, USA: https://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon In order to come, you have to register for the Wikimania conference: https://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Registration (Unfortunately, the period for requesting scholarships is now over.) At the hackathon, we'll have trainings and projects for novices, and we welcome creators of all Wikimedia technologies -- MediaWiki, gadgets, bots, mobile apps, you name it -- to hack on stuff together and teach each other. Hope to see you! -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation

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Error: badtoken, Info: Invalid token
by Suryajith Chillara 15 Jun '12

15 Jun '12

Dear community, I have been stuck with this problem for quite sometime, I have been trying to use the upload api and have tried the example specified on the page. And I've been getting the error: badtoken and info: invalid token. I couldn't get it to work. I have followed the said steps. First get the token. The result was as follows. {"query":{"normalized":[{"from":"Test_Page","to":"Test Page"}],"pages":{"2":{"pageid":2,"ns":0,"title":"Test Page","touched":"2012-06-05T16:09:33Z","lastrevid":2,"counter":3,"length":12,"new":"","starttimestamp":"2012-06-15T14:43:02Z","edittoken":"a25a10589a377fc4d75e5e0dcfb209c2+\\"}}}} Then tried uploading the file. $params = array( 'action' => 'upload', 'url' => 'http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif', 'token' => "a25a10589a377fc4d75e5e0dcfb209c2%2B%5C", 'format' => 'json' ); I keep getting the error as follows. {"error":{"code":"badtoken","info":"Invalid token"}} Where is it that I am going wrong ? -- Regards, Suryajith Chillara.

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Getting recent changes to a particular page
by Eamonn 15 Jun '12

15 Jun '12

I would appreciate if anyone could give me any advice in the best way to use the API to do the following: For a particular Wikipedia page: 1. Determine if the page has changed in the last 24 hours. 2. Extract from the page only the sections that have changed in the last 24 hours. I know the index.php call can return a history (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ray_Bradbury&action=history ) which has links that allow you to get particular diffs. However this is intended for human consumption, and would require some screen-scraping to extract out the information I need. Is there a way to use the API to get similar information as the index.php?*&action=history command, but instead of getting HTML to get an XML or JSON result that is easier to digest? Thanks, __ Eamonn

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Time at which a user was added to a group
by Henry Brausen 15 Jun '12

15 Jun '12

Hi there, I know how to get a list of the user groups to which a given user belongs. (I'm using action=query&list=users) Is there a way to also fetch the time at which the user was added to those groups? I'm working specifically with Wikipedia. If this data is unavailable through the API, does anyone know if it is available at all? Thanks! -- Henry

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Custom API action
by Suryajith Chillara 11 Jun '12

11 Jun '12

Hey, I have been trying to build a custom API action which could be used to upload a file and move it to a particular folder. I've been trying to get a custom API action working. I was following the API documentation and the link http://lalashan.mcmaster.ca/theobio/worden/index.php/Wikipedia_SF_Hackathon… So my bare attempt was this. http://hastebin.com/pisivumifa.php <- this was the template I've lifted off from APIcongresslookup. And this is my setup page http://hastebin.com/bewocoxuqe.php What else would I have to do to get it working? Is there some concrete reference I could look up ? Thanks, -- Regards, Suryajith Chillara.

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by Jiří Malšovský 10 Jun '12

10 Jun '12

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