Mediawiki-api September 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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Querying categories at the bottom of wiki pages
by Chux 27 Sep '13

27 Sep '13

Hi guys, When I do a query for categories using the API I would only like to get the categories that are listed in the wiki page. For example when I query the Brocoli page, I get this: <categories> <cl ns="14" title="Category:All articles with unsourced statements"/> <cl ns="14" title="Category:Articles containing Italian-language text"/> <cl ns="14" title="Category:Articles with 'species' microformats"/> <cl ns="14" title="Category:Articles with unsourced statements from January 2013"/> <cl ns="14" title="Category:Brassica oleracea"/> <cl ns="14" title="Category:Commons category with local link same as on Wikidata"/> <cl ns="14" title="Category:Cultivars"/> <cl ns="14" title="Category:Edible plants"/> <cl ns="14" title="Category:Inflorescence vegetables"/> <cl ns="14" title="Category:Pages with citations having bare URLs"/> </categories> But I am only interested in these (You'll see it at the bottom of this page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brocoli): <cl ns="14" title="Category:Brassica oleracea"/> <cl ns="14" title="Category:Cultivars"/> <cl ns="14" title="Category:Edible plants"/> <cl ns="14" title="Category:Inflorescence vegetables"/> I was wondering if there is any workaround this? Thanks Chux

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edit a page without leading pipe characters
by Andreas Mrvka 27 Sep '13

27 Sep '13

Hello list, after I can successfully edit pages via API function I want to send text content with pipe characters. It works as long this characters is not at the beginning of a line. (but most formulars work in that way) Leading pipe " | " sign is ignored. My script looks like: content="content|pipe|content |newline |newline" wget ..... --post-data "action=edit&title=pagename&text=$content&token= The result looks like: content|pile|content newline newline Can anybody help me how to quote it? Thanks Andreas

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SOLVED:edit a page without leading pipe characters
by Andreas Mrvka 27 Sep '13

27 Sep '13

Hello list, I have roll back my message. I forgot to close my form field correctly. It works now as expected. Kind regards Andreas

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edit a page per api.php but have token problems
by Andreas Mrvka 27 Sep '13

27 Sep '13

Hello list, I've read many posts around this error but I cannot figure out why I did not get it. I hope you can shine a light to it, please. My system: MW 1.21.1 I use AUTH_REMOTEUSER modul and its working fine. It seems that it works with the api.php too. (fetching info with my user rights) Well, referring to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php I want to do the action=edit to create or edit pages. So I start to fetch my login token. wget --http-user=myuser --http-password=mypwd " https://localhost/wiki/api.php?action=query&prop=info|revisions&intoken=edi… then I get the xml back ... <page ns="0" title="mynewpage" missing="" starttimestamp="2013-09-26T21:38:59Z" edittoken="396fb7fbd9a308620d460e92e611d100+\" /></pages> ... So I extract this edittoken-element and simply create a new page. ($newtoken=edittoken) wget --http-user=myuser --http-password=mypwd --header="Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" "https://localhost/wiki/api.php" --post-data "action=edit&title=mynewpage&text=test&token=$newtoken" I get back: error code="badtoken" info="Invalid token" After investigation I found a webpage https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Edit which describes the token characters (The token that you received is terminated with +\, this needs to be urlencoded (so it will end with %2B%5C) before it is passed back) I tried it with this hint and without it.... but with no success.... I also tried to do a normal login (action=login) but it does not help. For information... my user does not have any password because of active directory authentication by the webserver. So I can not add the parameter lgname=myuser&lgpassword .... Please can you help me? Thank you very much! Andreas

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Getting the total edits on an article from the API
by jeph 17 Sep '13

17 Sep '13

Hi, I'm building an edit visualisation tool , demo<https://googledrive.com/host/0B1hJO1N6piYFTTVZdW1mU2c0S28/visualise.html>. I'm trying to get the total number of edits to show the user & for a few other things. I haven't been able to retrieve it from the API, though I can see it in the info page of an article eg, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=JSON&action=info#mw-pageinfo-edi… Any pointers to a solution will be really helpful :-) Thanks Jeph

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Getting Location Data
by McIver, David 16 Sep '13

16 Sep '13

Hello all, I've gathered a lot of data regarding article views for a select number of articles of interest on the English language Wikipedia. I am interesting in finding out if there is a way to collect this data only for articles that were viewed in a specific country (i.e. the United States). Is this possible to do? I would also be interested in doing the same thing for article edits as well. Thanks very much, David McIver Boston Children's Hospital Harvard Medical School

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getting plain text from mediaWiki API
by Anubha Banerjee 16 Sep '13

16 Sep '13

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18822657/why-are-templates-not-in-proper…

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[Mediawiki-api-announce] BREAKING CHANGE: Wikidata API changing to upper-case IDs
by Brad Jorsch (Anomie) 10 Sep '13

10 Sep '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 12:11:56 +0200 From: Daniel Kinzler <daniel.kinzler(a)wikimedia.de> Hi all. With today's deployment, the Wikibase API modules used on wikidata.org will change from using lower-case IDs (q12345) to upper-case IDs (Q12345). This is done for consistency with the way IDs are shown in the UI and used in URLs. The API will continue to accept entity IDs in lower-case as well as upper-case. Any bot or other client that has no property or item IDs hardcoded or configured in lower case should be fine. If however your code looks for some specific item or property in the output returned from the API, and it's using a lower-case ID to do so, it may now fail to match the respective ID. There is potential for similar problems with Lua code, depending on how the data structure is processed by Lua. We are working to minimize the impact there. Sorry for the short notice. Please test your code against test.wikidata.org and let us know if you find any issues. Thanks, Daniel PS: issue report on bugzilla: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53894 _______________________________________________ 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-api September 2013