Mediawiki-api August 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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X-Frame-Options header
by Chris Steipp 31 Aug '12

31 Aug '12

Hi, I wanted to call attention on this list to a small change [1] in the api that we just released as part of a security update [2]. We previously had not set X-Frame-Option headers on the result of api queries. This could leave a site open to a variety of UI redressing attacks, so the WMF sites now set the X-Frame-Option: header to 'DENY' on API results. This will also be the default configuration for new downloads. If you need to show the result of an API query in an iframe, you can set the $wgApiFrameOptions = false to disable the header. However, I would encourage everyone to keep the header, as it will help prevent this type of attack. [1] - https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39180 [2] - http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-August/000119.…

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removing extraneous material in action=parse ... mobileformat=html
by Fred Zimmerman 16 Aug '12

16 Aug '12

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Wikipedia external links API missing expected results
by Mark Robson 16 Aug '12

16 Aug '12

Hi, I'm trying to get the list of external links on pages. I can do this with the API query command, thus: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Barack%20Obama&prop=… In this case, requesting Barack Obama's links. Also it works well with Einstein: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Albert%20Einstein&pr… However, another famous physicist, Neils Bohr<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neils_Bohr>, gives me nothing, even though looking at his article, there are several external links. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Neils%20Bohr&prop=ex… Do you know why this is? Is it a bug? Regards Mark

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reading API in ASP.Net
by Parsa 14 Aug '12

14 Aug '12

Dear members, I'm writing a project with ASP.net (C#). I have to read API from Wikipedia. it is written in OpenSearch XML format. I would like to know,how can i read a opensearch xml format in ASP.net? this is a sample API that I would like to read it in ASP.Net. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=opensearch&limit=20&format=xml&sea… Thanks a lot

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getting data for a topic
by Pavan Kumar 14 Aug '12

14 Aug '12

Hi all, I am new to wikipedia API. can you help me with the following: I want to grep all the content of the "united states of america" to a text file with out images. I am looking a response in text format. How can I do that? looking for: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States page contents. I got this url constructed: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=xml&action=query&titles=united_sta… But I am not getting what I want ..:(.may be I am missing some thing basic I did based on http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php.. 1.how can I get the content of what ever string I give in the query? please help me with the url. 2. I am trying to have this in a text file. can I get the response in the text format? other than xml and json? 3. In the unites_states example, I want to get the first coulm of the citys ( Leading population centers ) how can I get that . -pavi

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questions about tweaking results
by Fred Zimmerman 10 Aug '12

10 Aug '12

Hi, I understand how to submit API requests, but I want to be able to make the following tweaks to the returned results: * delete images & captions from returned pages? * delete warning notices? * delete [edit] text Any ideas? Fred Zimmerman --- *The very best place for news about Nimble: *http://www.quora.com/ncp

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Anti-spam measures for e-mail API?
by Jani Patokallio 07 Aug '12

07 Aug '12

Greetings, If I'm reading http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:E-mail correctly, there appear to be no (technical) restrictions preventing anybody capable of creating a MediaWiki account from spamming every user with a registered mailing address. Please tell me I'm wrong, and I'm not going to wake up some day to an avalanche of Wikipedia e-mail about Viagra and penis extensions in my inbox? I'm asking because I'm about to add an email operation to my MediaWiki::Gateway Ruby gem, and would prefer that this not be used for evil. Cheers, -jani

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[Mediawiki-api-announce] action=upload ignorewarnings behavior change
by Roan Kattouw 31 Jul '12

31 Jul '12

The behavior of the ignorewarnings parameter in action=upload was changed [1] recently. The ignorewarnings parameter causes an upload to go through even if there were (non-fatal) warnings. Previously, it also removed the warnings from the API output, but with Mark's recent change, these warnings will now be shown. Clients that check for "Success" or "Warning" shouldn't break, but clients that only check for the <warnings> element to see if an upload failed may start failing. This change will be part of the 1.20wmf9 deployment, which will go live on WMF wikis in stages between August 6 and August 13 [2]. Roan [1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/9261/ [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.20/Roadmap#Schedule_for_the_depl… _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api-announce mailing list Mediawiki-api-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api-announce

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