Mediawiki-api October 2014

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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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[Mediawiki-api-announce] Deprecation of list=allusers 'recenteditcount' result property
by Brad Jorsch (Anomie) 16 Apr '19

16 Apr '19

When list=allusers is used with auactiveusers, a property 'recenteditcount' is returned in the result. In bug 67301[1] it was pointed out that this property is including various other logged actions, and so should really be named something like "recentactions". Gerrit change 130093,[2] merged today, adds the "recentactions" result property. "recenteditcount" is also returned for backwards compatability, but will be removed at some point during the MediaWiki 1.25 development cycle. Any clients using this property should be updated to use the new property name. The new property will be available on WMF wikis with 1.24wmf12, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/Roadmap for the schedule. [1]: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67301 [2]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/130093/ -- 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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A question about UPLOAD update
by Liu Chenheng 02 Dec '14

02 Dec '14

Hi, All, I found in some of the UPLOAD update, there is no page id: <rc type="log" ns="6" title="File:Lucian A. Sperta- Nunez.jpg" rcid=" 114549183" pageid="0" revid="0" old_revid="0" user="Azarel63"oldlen="0" newlen="0" timestamp="2014-01-05T11:09:38Z" comment="User created page with UploadWizard" logid="77242320" logtype="upload"logaction="upload" img_sha1=" sf9t03wg27tl73nnde3jzfuxncefux9" img_timestamp="2014-01-05T11:09:36Z"/> <rc type="log" ns="6" title="File:Gingerbread spices (annotated).jpg" rcid=" 114549185" pageid="30485540" revid="0" old_revid="0"user="SKopp" oldlen="0" newlen="0" timestamp="2014-01-05T11:09:37Z" comment="User created page with UploadWizard" logid="77242318"logtype="upload" logaction="upload" img_sha1=" q84abqjr2n4bmn7o6j4uovpl5ufs2gq" img_timestamp="2014-01-05T11:09:37Z"/> The first one has no page id but the second one has. Does anybody can tell me the differences? Thanks, Ethan Liu

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Error while getting all users
by Srijan Kumar 27 Oct '14

27 Oct '14

Hi, I am trying to get the list of all users. Mostly I get the following error: { "servedby": "mw1196", "error": { "code": "internal_api_error_MWException", "info": "Exception Caught: Internal error in ApiQueryAllUsers::execute: Saw more duplicate rows than expected", "*": "" } } So I reduce the number of users the API is getting at each call to 1, and even then I get the error. For example, see: [1] <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API_talk:Main_page#cite_note-1> How do I deal with this error now? Any other way to get the list of all users? 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=allusers&format=jsonfm… <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=allusers&format=jsonfm…> Thanks Srijan

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Re: [Mediawiki-api] Extract parameters from templates?
by Ricordisamoa 26 Oct '14

26 Oct '14

Il 25/10/2014 10:40 UTC, Harald Groven ha scritto: > How do I get a parameter of pages using a template using the API? > E.g. extract 12345 from pages tagged with {{mytemplate|12345}}, when > mytemplate do not contain categories. > > -- > Harald Groven AFAIK, there is no way to get such information with the core API modules without directly adding categories via templates. But if the target wiki uses Parsoid <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid>, you may use its API to obtain RDFa data (combined with HTML5 content) also containing transclusions in a machine-readable format. The specification <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/MediaWiki_DOM_spec#Transclusion_cont…> is available. Another approach could be the great mwparserfromhell <https://github.com/earwig/mwparserfromhell> Python library, widely used by bots for advanced wikitext parsing. Please let us know your choice.

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Extract parameters from templates?
by Harald Groven 25 Oct '14

25 Oct '14

How do I get a parameter of pages using a template using the API? E.g. extract 12345 from pages tagged with {{mytemplate|12345}}, when mytemplate do not contain categories. -- Harald Groven

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[Mediawiki-api-announce] Announcement of breaking change planned for MediaWiki 1.26
by Brad Jorsch (Anomie) 23 Oct '14

23 Oct '14

The API supports two methods for continuing action=query when more results are available, the simple method[1] and the raw method.[2] The raw method is currently the default for historical reasons, but as the simple method is much easier for new users to use *correctly* that really should be the default. To make this transition easy for clients, the current plan is to make the change on the following timetable: * Starting with 1.24wmf22,[3][4] action=query will recognize a "rawcontinue" boolean input parameter. Clients that wish to continue using the raw method for continuation should begin supplying this parameter with all action=query queries. * Sometime during the MediaWiki 1.25 development cycle, the API will begin reporting warnings when neither "continue" nor "rawcontinue" are supplied with action=query.[5] * Sometime during the MediaWiki 1.26 development cycle, simplified continuation will become the default.[6] Note this is also documented at < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/API_roadmap#Simplified_…>. See other sections on that page for additional planned API changes. [1]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Query#Continuing_queries [2]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Raw_Query_Continue [3]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/154092/ [4]: See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/Roadmap for the schedule of deployments to WMF wikis. [5]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/160222/ [6]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/160223/ -- 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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retrieving Wikipedia files with AJAX
by jim andrews 16 Oct '14

16 Oct '14

I need to retrieve Wikipedia articles (the URLs of which are not known until run time) and display them in an iFrame using jQuery AJAX. Could someone please give me some sample code on how to do this? Thanks! ja http://vispo.com

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[Mediawiki-api-announce] BREAKING CHANGE: API help and pretty-printed output formatting changes
by Brad Jorsch (Anomie) 13 Oct '14

13 Oct '14

Legoktm has just merged Gerrit change 160798,[1] Gerrit change 161093,[2] Gerrit change 160819,[3] and a few associated patches. Collectively, these make the following changes to the human-readable aspects of the API output, which will be deployed to WMF wikis with 1.25wmf4 (see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/Roadmap for the schedule). * action=help now outputs a nice HTML page instead of a plain-text document wrapped in XML. * Hitting api.php with no parameters will display help for the main module only, with links to each submodule. One of the examples provided shows how to get everything on one page as with the old help. * The default for the 'format' parameter is now jsonfm rather than xmlfm. * Syntax highlighting for format=jsonfm and format=xmlfm now uses Extension:SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi rather than ad-hoc code that only worked right for xmlfm. Other formats are not highlighted. The patches also change the aspects of action=paraminfo that return help-related information: * Module description is no longer returned by default; a new parameter selects html, wikitext, or raw Message data. * The 'examples' result property is now an array rather than a string. * The 'allexamples' result property has been removed. * Parameter descriptions are no longer returned by default; a new parameter selects html, wikitext, or raw Message data. Machine-readable parameter info remains available. The impact of these changes on existing bots and scripts is expected to be minimal, as non-human consumption is likely to be limited to ApiSandbox. [1]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/160798 [2]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/161093 [2]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/160819 -- 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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by Nicolas Vervelle 10 Oct '14

10 Oct '14

Hi, A user reported problems with my tool WPCleaner since a few hours, but my tool hasn't changed at all in a few weeks. It seems there's a problem with an API request for list=backlinks. For example, the request below returns now an internal API error, but it was working correctly before. Request: https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?bltitle=BNF&action=query&blredirect=&lis… Result: <?xml version="1.0"?><api servedby="mw1053"><error code=" internal_api_error_MWException" info="Exception Caught: Internal error in ApiFormatXml::recXmlPrint: (redirlinks, ...) has integer keys without _element value. Use ApiResult::setIndexedTagName()." xml:space="preserve" /> </api> Nico

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