Mediawiki-api June 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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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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[Mediawiki-api-announce] Breaking change in action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=interwikimap
by Brad Jorsch (Anomie) 18 Jun '14

18 Jun '14

The "protorel" property recently added to the output of action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=interwikimap was coded to include the property with a boolean true value rather than the API-standard empty string. This is now corrected, and will be deployed to WMF wikis with 1.24wmf10. At some point in the future (timeframe and details undecided yet), I would like to change the API so that boolean properties like this one will actually be a truthy value (e.g. boolean true) in JSON and other output formats. It's likely that the backwards-compatible mode would cause any other properties that are currently returning as boolean true to change to empty-string. -- 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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Changes in API action=parse&mobileformat=...
by Max Semenik 09 Jun '14

09 Jun '14

Hi, in response to bug 54607 [1], we've changed the semantics of the mobileformat parameter to action=parse == Summary == Previously, it used to accept strings 'html' or 'wml', later just 'html' and modify the structure of output (see below). This was problematic because you needed to retrieve the HTML from output in different ways, depending on whether mobileformat is specified or not. Now, mobileformat is a boolean parameter, that is if there's a 'mobileformat' parameter in request, it will be treated as "the output should be mobile-friendly", regardless of value. And the output structure will be the same. For compatibility with older callers, mobileformat=(html|wml) will be special-cased to return the older structure at least for 6 month from now. These changes will start being rolled out to the WMF sites starting from tomorrow, Tuesday October 24th and this process will be complete by October 31st. == Examples == === Non-mobile parse === api.php?action=parse&format=xml { "parse": { "title": "...", "text": { "*": "foo" } } } api.php?action=parse&format=json <?xml version="1.0"?> <api> <parse title="..." displaytitle="..."> <text xml:space="preserve">foo</text> </parse> </api> === Parse that outputs mobile HTML, old style === api.php?action=parse&format=json&mobileformat=html { "parse": { "title": "API", "text": "foo" } } api.php?action=parse&format=xml&mobileformat=html <?xml version="1.0"?> <api> <parse title="..." text="foo" displaytitle="..."> </parse> </api> === Parse that outputs mobile HTML, new style === api.php?action=parse&format=...&mobileformat Same as for non-mobile parses. == FAQ == Q: I didn't use mobileformat before, does anything change for me? A: No. Q: I use mobileformat=html, will my bot/tool be broken now? A: No, you will have 6 months to switch to new style. Q: I'm only planning to use mobileformat, what should I do? A: Just use the new style. Q: How did this format discrepancy appear in the first place? A: To err is human. ----- [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54607 -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])

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[Mediawiki-api-announce] Change in action=expandtemplates
by Brad Jorsch (Anomie) 05 Jun '14

05 Jun '14

With Gerrit change 136799 <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/136799/>, the old output format for action=expandtemplates and the generatexml parameter are deprecated, but will continue to be used for existing queries. Clients should begin using the new 'prop' parameter to action=expandtemplates, to be ready for some future date when the deprecated format and parameter are removed. There is no timeline on this removal, but it will be announced well in advance to this list. This change will be deployed to WMF wikis with 1.24wmf8, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/Roadmap for the schedule. This is not considered a breaking change, since the old queries will continue to work with a deprecation warning. -- 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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New "gold standard" for web API client libraries
by Frances Hocutt 03 Jun '14

03 Jun '14

Hello everyone, I'm about 2 weeks into my OPW internship, in which I'll be evaluating MediaWiki API client libraries in five languages against a standard I've written and then contributing in depth to one of them.[1] By now I have a handle on using the API and the available client libraries and I've written the standard I'll be using to evaluate these libraries.[2] Off-wiki, I've started writing a series of posts on getting acquainted with the API[3]. A few days ago I spoke at WikiConference USA on the basics of APIs and API usage--slides are up on Commons, linked to from my conference run-down.[4] If you have any comments on the standard, please leave them on the talk page or grab me in IRC (fhocutt). -Frances [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Evaluating_and_Improving_MediaWiki_web_API_c… [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Client_code/Gold_standard [3] http://franceshocutt.com/tag/api/ [4] http://franceshocutt.com/2014/06/02/wikiconference-usa-2014-rundown/

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