Mediawiki-api February 2013

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Single api request to all wiktionaries?
by Wikimaas Wikipedia 20 Feb '13

20 Feb '13

Hello, I'm trying to see if it is possible to post an api request to all wiktionaries with a single query? As interwikis in wiktionary interlink to other wiktionaries on homonyms, I thought it to be useful to present users who end up at 404-not found pages with interwiki links to possible existing articles on other wiktionaries. These interwikis could be dynamically added to http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Noarticletext I wrote a little php script which recursively queries all wiktionaries to see if an article exists, but it takes too long to query all wiktionaries to verify the existence of a certain. See the (draft) script at http://pastebin.com/mLAdDpwA More on the application of this you can read at http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Beer_parlour/2013/February#Interwi… I'd be happy to know if there's a smoother way to approach this, otherwise a batch-scripting-option? Thank you, Stratoprutser

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PageImages extension does not work
by Ewa Szwed 20 Feb '13

20 Feb '13

Hi, I have a question on the PageImages MediaWiki extension. I have installed it on my instanse of MediaWiki apache. It looks like it is working because with the following hit: api.php?action=query&prop=pageimages&format=xml&pithumbsize=500&pilimit=10&titles=Paris|Lille|Rennes I am seeing the following response: <api> <query> <pages> <page pageid="50116" ns="0" title="Lille"/> <page pageid="22989" ns="0" title="Paris"/> <page pageid="46132" ns="0" title="Rennes"/> </pages> </query> </api> I am not able to see any images info in the response, was expecting to see something similar to: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=pageimages&format=xml&p… In mysql wikipedia DB I have populated *image* and *imagelinks* table using dumps from wikipedia. I am assuming that this extension uses data from *page_images* table which is empty on my instance. How to populate this data (where to get the dump from?). I would appreciate any answer.

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LinqToWiki: new library for accessing the API from .Net
by Petr Onderka 17 Feb '13

17 Feb '13

I'd like to introduce LinqToWiki: a new library for accessing the MediaWiki API from .Net languages (e.g. C#). Its main advantage is that it knows the API and is strongly-typed, which means autocompletion works on API modules, module parameters and result properties and correctness is checked at compile time. More information is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Svick/LinqToWiki. Any comments are welcome. Petr Onderka [[en:User:Svick]]

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[Mediawiki-api-announce] Breaking backend changes to ApiPageSet, ApiQuery, ApiQueryGeneratorBase
by Brad Jorsch 08 Feb '13

08 Feb '13

In change I7a3d7b6e[1] which was recently merged, the ApiPageSet module received a major overhaul. In particular, the parameters to the constructor have changed, and it now extends ApiBase rather than ApiQueryBase. These changes will not affect API clients, but any third-party API modules that use ApiPageSet will need to be updated. Also as part of this change, ApiQuery is losing its newGenerator() and executeGeneratorModule() methods, and ApiQueryGeneratorBase's setGeneratorMode() is gaining a required parameter. These methods are unlikely to have been used in non-core code. This brings with it enhanced functionality: non-query actions using ApiPageSet may now use generators. The core action=purge and action=setnotificationtimestamp modules have already been enhanced in this way. This change should go live on WMF wikis with 1.21wmf10; see the roadmap for details.[2] [1]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/44087/ [2]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.21/Roadmap -- Brad Jorsch 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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Unexpected token with JSON result
by Brendan Taylor 08 Feb '13

08 Feb '13

Sorry if this question has already been asked and answered. There doesn't seem to be a way to search the archives. I'm using action=parse, format=json, and the result creates a JavaScript JSON object. The HTML I wish to use is in result.parse.text.*, and the problem is JavaScript detects a syntax error because of the property named "*". How can I work around this? Thanks, Brendan

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Re: [Mediawiki-api] Question about sorting results from full text search
by Edward Luo 01 Feb '13

01 Feb '13

Hi, I use list=search (sr) to perform a full text search. About the results: What is the default score used for ranking? Can I sort the results based on specific score? If yes, any documentation about this? Thank you in advance. Edward

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