Mediawiki-api December 2013

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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 10 Jun '14

10 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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New Pages
by Amir Ladsgroup 19 Dec '13

19 Dec '13

Hello, It's strange for me why new pages hasn't been implemented in API yet. We can retrieve recent changes and filter new pages (as we did in pywikibot to retrieve new pages) but if we want new pages of English Wikipedia in a certain day (or certain number) we need to retrieve ALL of edits made during that period of time, which is bad for global warming. Is there any reason not to implement new pages API functionality. If it's okay, I'll start working on it Best -- Amir

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[Mediawiki-api-announce] Handling of redirects and prop=imageinfo in flux
by Brad Jorsch (Anomie) 12 Dec '13

12 Dec '13

The behavior of prop=imageinfo with redirects, particularly redirects in foreign repos such as Commons, has always been a bit strange and confusing. Depending on the source of the file, sometimes &redirects=1 is needed in the query to get the imageinfo for a redirect and sometimes this is done regardless. Recent changes to the file repository backend code will cause prop=imageinfo to now always return the info for the target file, even when querying a redirect without specifying "&redirects=1" in the query. A new iiprop is also available, iiprop=canonicaltitle, to indicate the title associated with the file info itself. These changes will be deployed to WMF sites with 1.23wmf7, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/Roadmap for the schedule. A change is also being planned by Brian Wolff to change prop=imageinfo back in the other direction: file redirects would never be followed unless &redirects=1 is included. Feedback is welcome, particularly on edge cases that will need to be handled. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ 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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The format of log events dumps is incorrect.
by Liu Chenheng 12 Dec '13

12 Dec '13

Hi, All, I found all the xml files for log event are incorrect, i.e. missing the last </mediawiki> tag. For example: http://dumps.wikimedia.org/szlwiki/20131210/szlwiki-20131210-pages-logging.… Thanks. Chenheng Liu

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Filtering multiple anonymous users
by Manika Kar 11 Dec '13

11 Dec '13

Hello everyone, I am quite new using MediaWiki API. I want to get the revisions filtering out the revisions made by all the 'anonymous users' and 'minor edit' for an article. The parameter 'rvexcludeuser' is for filtering single user only. Do you have any clue. Best Regards, Manika Kar

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Wikipeda Page Counts for A word
by Muhidin Mohamed 10 Dec '13

10 Dec '13

Dear All, I am working on an application which requires the total wikipedia page counts that contain specific word or a pair of words. I have tried to to use advanced search to get these page counts and retrieve the the HTML page to extract that. Please see the attached snapshot is information pointed by the red arrow the actual total pages containing the name David Beckham ?. Any advice is highly appreciated. Cheers, ................................................................... Muhidin A. Mohamed, School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Birmingham, Pritchatts Road, Edgbaston, B15 2SA

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[Mediawiki-api-announce] [BREAKING CHANGE] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Update to Echo api
by Roan Kattouw 10 Dec '13

10 Dec '13

Fowarding on behalf of Benny and legoktm. This change in the Echo API was announced on wikitech-l earlier, but failed to make it to the API list. "it will be removed once ..." from the message below has now happened: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/84870/ will be merged today, and will be deployed to Wikimedia wikis in phases between December 12th and December 19th. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Benny Situ <bsitu(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 6:19 PM Subject: [Wikitech-l] Update to Echo api To: mobile-tech <mobile-tech(a)wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org, Kunal Mehta <legoktm(a)wikimedia.org> Hello, We made some change to Echo api recently. The api ApiEchoNotifications mixed both read and write actions, we have migrated the 'markasread' action to its own api module - ApiEchoMarkRead. The 'markasread' function still works in ApiEchoNotifications but it will be removed once all external api calls have been migrated to the new API. Example about how to use the new API is in here: https://git.wikimedia.org/blob/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FEcho.git/40ea204cdc… Thanks, _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ 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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Breaking API change: ApiQueryAllCampaigns prefix changed to 'uwc'
by Bene* 02 Dec '13

02 Dec '13

Hi everyone, per https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57128 I have submitted a patch that changes the api module prefix of ApiQueryAllCampaigns from 'uc' to 'uwc', as 'uc' is already used by user contributions. Please note that this change is a breaking API change and it does not implement backwards compability. Best regards, Bene

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