Mediawiki-api February 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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how to populate searchindex table
by Ewa Szwed 28 Feb '13

28 Feb '13

I have a question on searchindex table from wikipedia db. Is there a dump available to populate its content? Is this data a main source for wikipedia search. I am interested in doing sth like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=search&srsearch=wikiped… Please advise.

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full content of image table - en wiki dump
by Ewa Szwed 28 Feb '13

28 Feb '13

I have a question on image table from wikipedia DB. Currently this is what is available from wiki dumps: dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/latest/enwiki-latest-image.sql.gz regarding populating image table content. When imported it only populates 800000 * records which is clearly not the info for all en wikipedia images. Is this possible to get metadata for all the images for English wikipedia?

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Adopting API or styling m.wikipedia with CSS ?
by Luigi Assom 27 Feb '13

27 Feb '13

Dear All, I hope to have found the right channel for answering our questions on using properly Wikipedia contents. Me and my team are crafting a mobile and web application to browse wikipedia content in a different fashion. We are also taking care for caching content on our servers in order to avoid to "stress" wikipedia servers as much as possible. Still, we have to make an important decision. We want to do the following: 1. to "style" wikipedia pages so that we can apply a different look&feel. 2. to obtain images from wikipedia, and resize them to fit our layout About 1., I'd like to know which is the best practice of doing it. Should we interace with the API of wiki? or include css within the mobile clients and override the page content? Is there any day limit in querying the API? Or any benchmark to refer to? About 2., The only possible way is probably using the API. Again, Is there any day limit in querying the API? Is there any way to query in one time a stack of images, so that to reduce the number of requests to wiki servers? Finally, is there any case study to follow as benchmark? Thank you so much for helping us! Best, Luigi

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[Mediawiki-api-announce] MediaWiki API roadmap, NYC conference, and recent changes
by Yuri Astrakhan 22 Feb '13

22 Feb '13

As you might have noticed, there have recently been many changes to MediaWiki API. This is in part due to my push for API 2.0<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/API_roadmap/Naming_Clean…>, which will include API versioning, streamlined JSON-only result format, localized warnings and errors, naming cleanup<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/API_roadmap/Naming_Clean…>, and many other changes. On top of that, there has been various proposals for content-oriented RESTful API (as oppose to SQL-like query API). To learn more or to participate in the planning or implementation, see proposed changes <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/API_Future> or contact me directly. * * There will be a conference<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Wikipedia_Day>in New York tomorrow, Feb 23rd, at NYU. I intend to do an introductory API presentation there, partially covering some of the proposed changes. Please stop by if you want to discuss API, or just to say hi. *Important reminder to API users*: Please ensure you set the user agent string to contain both the name of your tool, the framework it uses, and a way to contact you. See User-Agent policy<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User-Agent_policy>. API users that do not follow this policy may be banned at any moment. Example:* MyCoolTool/1.1 (http://example.com/MyCoolTool/; MyCoolTool(a)example.com) BasedOnSuperLib/1.4* Lastly, to minimize traffic on this list, I will try to batch announcements into one email, unless there is an immediate breaking change. * prop=pageprops & ppprom=... now allows multiple values<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/41590/> (anomie) * Extensions: $wgAPIGeneratorModules is now obsolete<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/46196/>, the list of generators is now dynamic (yurik) * HTML-formatted results (format=*fm) will now wrap long lines<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/37188/>(waldir) --yurik _______________________________________________ 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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MediaWiki: Are H2 headers required in all pages?
by jacket 22 Feb '13

22 Feb '13

Dear MediaWiki-API, Not sure if this is the right place, but I can't seem to find the answer to this question. Do all MediaWiki pages require an h2 header: ==Some_Header== > In the wikitext? I'm aware that h1 headers are article titles, but there doesn't seem to be any information on whether or not all pages contain at least one h2 header. J

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Re: [Mediawiki-api] How to get interlanguage ilink from MediaWiki API
by Jiang BIAN 22 Feb '13

22 Feb '13

Thanks Marius and Mark. Will the API keep unaffected after interlanguages are moved to wikidata.org? On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Mark A. Hershberger <mah(a)everybody.org>wrote: > On 02/22/2013 01:25 PM, Jiang BIAN wrote: > > Our project is still working with old interlanguage link (parsing > > "[[en:Proxy server]]"). Is there other way to get the interlanguage link > > besides talking with www.wikidata.org <http://www.wikidata.org>? > > The example in API doc seems return a wrong result > > The API document is correct, but you will need to use the llcontinue > parameter to get the next batch of results. > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Albert%20Einstein&pr… > > You can use the lllimit parameter to get more results in any one response. > > -- > http://hexmode.com/ > > There is no path to peace. Peace is the path. > -- Mahatma Gandhi, "Non-Violence in Peace and War" > -- Jiang BIAN This email may be confidential or privileged. If you received this communication by mistake, please don't forward it to anyone else, please erase all copies and attachments, and please let me know that it went to the wrong person. Thanks.

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How to get interlanguage ilink from MediaWiki API
by Jiang BIAN 22 Feb '13

22 Feb '13

Hi MediaWiki developers, I noticed that on en.wikipedia.org, interlanguage wikilinks are gone, possibly due to this change: http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/02/13/wikidata-live-on-the-english-wikipedia/. Our project is still working with old interlanguage link (parsing "[[en:Proxy server]]"). Is there other way to get the interlanguage link besides talking with www.wikidata.org? The example in API doc<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Properties#langlinks_.2F_ll>seems return a wrong result: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Albert%20Einstein&pr… Einstein <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein> contains so many interlanguage link). Thanks -- Jiang BIAN This email may be confidential or privileged. If you received this communication by mistake, please don't forward it to anyone else, please erase all copies and attachments, and please let me know that it went to the wrong person. Thanks.

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Re: [Mediawiki-api] PageImages extension does not work
by Max Semenik 21 Feb '13

21 Feb '13

On 21.02.2013, 17:54 Ewa wrote: > In what table is the PageImage information store? page_props from MediaWiki proper. > 2013/2/20 Max Semenik <maxsem.wiki(a)gmail.com> > On 20.02.2013, 21:46 Ewa wrote: >> Thank you very much for your answer. >> I have triggered the maintenace/refreshLinks.php and it is still running. >> For the extensions/PageImages/initImageData.php >> I got the following error: >> The last attempted database query was: >> "DELETE FROM `geo_tags` WHERE gt_page_id = '12'" >> from within function "GeoDataHooks::doDumbUpdate". >> Database returned error "1146: Table 'wikimirror.geo_tags' doesn't exist (localhost)" > You didn't install GeoData properly - run update.php >> I have also noticed the the page_images table is not created unless I run the script manually. >> It is not being populated at all now while the >> maintenace/refreshLinks.php is running also. Is this table a source for PageImages API? > Current design for PageImages (the one deployed on Wikimedia > wikis) doesn't require a separate table. > -- > Best regards, > Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])

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