Mediawiki-api October 2013

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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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Changes in API action=parse&mobileformat=...
by Max Semenik 09 Jun '14

09 Jun '14

Hi, in response to bug 54607 [1], we've changed the semantics of the mobileformat parameter to action=parse == Summary == Previously, it used to accept strings 'html' or 'wml', later just 'html' and modify the structure of output (see below). This was problematic because you needed to retrieve the HTML from output in different ways, depending on whether mobileformat is specified or not. Now, mobileformat is a boolean parameter, that is if there's a 'mobileformat' parameter in request, it will be treated as "the output should be mobile-friendly", regardless of value. And the output structure will be the same. For compatibility with older callers, mobileformat=(html|wml) will be special-cased to return the older structure at least for 6 month from now. These changes will start being rolled out to the WMF sites starting from tomorrow, Tuesday October 24th and this process will be complete by October 31st. == Examples == === Non-mobile parse === api.php?action=parse&format=xml { "parse": { "title": "...", "text": { "*": "foo" } } } api.php?action=parse&format=json <?xml version="1.0"?> <api> <parse title="..." displaytitle="..."> <text xml:space="preserve">foo</text> </parse> </api> === Parse that outputs mobile HTML, old style === api.php?action=parse&format=json&mobileformat=html { "parse": { "title": "API", "text": "foo" } } api.php?action=parse&format=xml&mobileformat=html <?xml version="1.0"?> <api> <parse title="..." text="foo" displaytitle="..."> </parse> </api> === Parse that outputs mobile HTML, new style === api.php?action=parse&format=...&mobileformat Same as for non-mobile parses. == FAQ == Q: I didn't use mobileformat before, does anything change for me? A: No. Q: I use mobileformat=html, will my bot/tool be broken now? A: No, you will have 6 months to switch to new style. Q: I'm only planning to use mobileformat, what should I do? A: Just use the new style. Q: How did this format discrepancy appear in the first place? A: To err is human. ----- [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54607 -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])

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About the "external" update in the recent change list
by Liu Chenheng 24 Oct '13

24 Oct '13

Hi, All, I have known that when the language link of an article changes(i.e. change from wikidata.org) we will get an "external" update. Here I have a question: Does the "external" update include more cases except for the change of language link. i.e. How about the changes from commons.wikimedia.org, the template changes and the image file changes? Thanks, Ethan Liu

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김종범 부재중 자동응답: RE: About the "external" update in the recent change list
by "김종범" 24 Oct '13

24 Oct '13

NAVER - http://www.naver.com/ -------------------------------------------- 김종범(jongbeom.kim(a)nhn.com) 님은 현재 부재중입니다. 보내신 메일 <[Mediawiki-api] About the "external" update in the recent change list> 은 저장되어 있으므로 다시 보내실 필요는 없습니다. 김종범(jongbeom.kim(a)nhn.com) 님이 남기신 메시지 입니다. -------------------------------------------- 오늘 개인사유로 자리를 비웁니다. 긴급한 내용은 김웅섭 팀장님께 말씀 부탁드립니다 감사합니다. --------------------------------------------

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Mediawiki-api October 2013