Mediawiki-api January 2014

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How to know the API changes
by Liu Chenheng 06 Jan '14

06 Jan '14

Hi, All, I'd like to be notified as soon as the API changes. A simple way is to monitor the page http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php Here is my problem: Will the page http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php be always updated when the API changes (i.e. add/remove some new params) or the format of the response changes. If not, are there any ways to monitor that? Thanks.

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[Mediawiki-api-announce] Change to action=upload warnings
by Brad Jorsch (Anomie) 04 Jan '14

04 Jan '14

When uploading files via the API, various warnings may be returned. One of these warnings is "deleted-archive", with a value indicating the title under which the file was previously uploaded and deleted. With the merge of Gerrit change 105215,[1] which fixes bug 59167,[2] this "deleted-archive" warning may have an empty value when the file content has been suppressed. Clients should be adjusted to account for this possibility. [1]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/105215/ [2]: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59167 -- 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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Dealing with captchas as part of a "createaccount" API request
by Jeff Hall 04 Jan '14

04 Jan '14

I couldn't find any relevant documentation for this particular case, so I'm hoping someone on the list might be able to point me in the right direction... If I want to l create a new user account via the Mediawiki API, I might issue an initial request for a token like this: curl -c cookies.txt -X POST 'http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/w/api.php?action=login&format=json&lgn…' ...and then submit the actual request to create the account with the valid token obtained in the previous step: curl -b cookies.txt -X POST 'http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/w/api.php?action=login&format=json&lgn…<token_goes_here>' My problem is that some wikis require a captcha for account creation, so that second request gets a response like this: {"servedby"=>"deployment-apache33", "error"=>{"code"=>"Incorrect or missing CAPTCHA.", "info"=>"<Incorrect or missing CAPTCHA.>"}} I'm don't know how to deal with the captcha requirement via my API calls. Does anyone know if that is possible with a "createaccount" request, and if so, how does that work? Thanks, Jeff

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About the recent change list
by Liu Chenheng 02 Jan '14

02 Jan '14

Hi, All, We can only get the recent changes from API. But I found we only could get the recent changes which happened during the last 30 days. How can I get the recent changes earlier than 30 days? Or are there any pages or statements about this? Thanks. Ethan Liu

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Mediawiki-api January 2014