Mediawiki-api July 2014

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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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[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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Clarification on what is needed for "identifying the bot" in bot user-agent?
by Frances Hocutt 10 Aug '14

10 Aug '14

Hi all, When I wrote the new API client library standard, one of the intended effects was that libraries would make it easy for bot-runners to comply with the user-agent policy found at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User-agent_policy . However, different people understand the policy to mean different things. As I read it, the relevant parts of the policy are: "If you run a bot, please send a User-Agent header identifying the bot and supplying some way of contacting you, e.g.: `User-Agent: MyCoolTool/1.1 (http://example.com/MyCoolTool/; MyCoolTool(a)example.com) BasedOnSuperLib/1.4`" There's been some discussion in the context of my client library evaluation project here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API_talk:Client_code/Evaluations/Java_Wiki_B… and here: https://github.com/jpatokal/mediawiki-gateway/issues/65 . As I understood it, the example provided demonstrated the requirements, but it's now clear to me that there's room for ambiguity in the interpretation of the user-agent policy. My question is: what information is essential to "identify" a bot? The example given appears to contain the bot name and version, a link to a page with more information and/or the repository for the bot's code, and the framework that was used to write the bot (SuperLib/1.4, I assume). Does WMF operations want all of these components? What is the minimum necessary to comply with the policy, and what is bonus information? -Frances

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Patch acceptance criteria
by Nathan Larson 01 Aug '14

01 Aug '14

I'm working on a bot <https://github.com/Inclumedia/MirrorBot> that will gather all data, including revision IDs, as they are made available via the MediaWiki API, by polling list=recentchanges. To make it easier, I'm developing core patches to make more data available via the API. See, e.g., bug 68950 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68950>, "log_params should contain the revision IDs of null revisions created by page move events". I don't know why anyone else but me, or someone working on a similar project, would need this feature, but being able to access that data via log_params makes it so I don't have to do a separate prop=revisions query. I was wondering, how do the +2's decide what API features are useful enough to enough people to be worth reviewing and merging? Are they more likely to ask "why" or "why not" when a new API feature is proposed? Are there any developers in particular who'd be interested in reviewing new API features for obscure use cases? Thanks. -- Nathan

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[Mediawiki-api-announce] RFC on changes to the API
by Brad Jorsch (Anomie) 31 Jul '14

31 Jul '14

If you want to give input on numerous proposed changes to the API, please comment at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/API_roadmap Also, please advertise that link on-wiki at any suitable locations. Thanks. -- 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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Re: [Mediawiki-api] Clarification on what is needed for "identifying the bot" in bot user-agent?
by Amgine 31 Jul '14

31 Jul '14

RFC 2616[1] 14.43 suggests the user agent field should identify using product tokens ("product"/"version_or_comment") and sub products by convention from most significant to least. This might be a useful model based on the discussions? botname/version [user:botusername/wiki.domain.tld] [task:task name/url] [product/version_or_comment] [...] Amgine [1] https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt

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API client evaluations complete
by Frances Hocutt 26 Jul '14

26 Jul '14

Hello all, I'm about 3/4 done with my OPW internship project.[1] I have finished evaluating the libraries I intended to, contacting the maintainers, and filing bug reports/enhancement requests. The evaluations are here.[2] Check them out, add to them, comment on the talk pages, and start evaluating some client libraries yourself if you are so inclined! A couple of people contacted me about evaluating the available PHP libraries. While that's not in the scope of my project, feel free to ask me any questions if you're interested in taking that on. -Frances [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Evaluating_and_Improving_MediaWiki_web_API_c… [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Client_code/Evaluations

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About the page id in "Delete/Restore Page/Revision" recent change updates
by Liu Chenheng 22 Jul '14

22 Jul '14

Hi all, I found that in the "Delete/Restore Page/Revision" recent change updates, not all of them have page id, sometimes the page id equals to 0. Is it expected or just a bug? If it's expected, can you tell me that what kind of operations will cause the "0 page id" update? For example: *page id = 0:* <rc type="log" ns="0" title="CHE-YOUTH ORGANISATION" rcid="603071797" pageid="0" revid="0" old_revid="0" user="Alexf" oldlen="0" newlen="0" timestamp="2013-09-17T15:39:14Z" comment="Multiple reasons: speedy deletion criteria [[WP:A7|A7]], [[WP:G11|G11]]" logid="51077039" logtype="delete" logaction="delete"/> *page id != 0:* RESTORE PAGE <rc type="log" ns="0" title="Willans" pageid="43303661" revid="0" old_revid="0" rcid="668919167" user="Anthony Appleyard" oldlen="0" newlen="0" timestamp="2014-07-15T05:10:23Z" comment="7 revisions restored" logid="57582944" logtype="delete" logaction="restore"/> DELETE PAGE <rc type="log" ns="0" title="Waterline Plumbing" pageid="43303560" revid="0" old_revid="0" rcid="668917805" user="MER-C" oldlen="0" newlen="0" timestamp="2014-07-15T04:54:05Z" comment="[[WP:CSD#G11|G11]]: Unambiguous [[WP:NOTADVERTISING|advertising]] or promotion" logid="57582772" logtype="delete" logaction="delete"/> DELETE REVISION <rc type="log" ns="0" title="Sywell Aerodrome" pageid="43516" revid="0" old_revid="0" rcid="668896726" user="Mike V" oldlen="0" newlen="0" timestamp="2014-07-15T00:55:22Z" comment="[[WP:RD1|RD1]]: Blatant copyright violations" logid="57579965" logtype="delete" logaction="revision"> <param>revision</param> <param>615401409,615401374,615401262,615401089</param> <param>ofield=0</param> <param>nfield=1</param> </rc> Thanks, Ethan Liu

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