Mediawiki-api January 2015

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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) 17 Apr '19

17 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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[x-posting] Raising attention for the API bug
by Amir Ladsgroup 01 Feb '15

01 Feb '15

Hello, This bug <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87645> is more serious than it seems and it's blocked a huge part of our actions (e.g. creating pages outside of main namespace via API) Please someone take a look at this -- Amir

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Description of wiki page (everything before the References section of wiki page)
by practikalmind 27 Jan '15

27 Jan '15

Hi, Is there a way to get the description of the wiki page with everything "BEFORE" the "References" section? For example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs I would need in the wiki page "BEFORE" the below "References" section. References 1. "The Walt Disney Company and Affiliated Companies - Board of Directors". The Walt Disney Company. Retrieved October 2, 2009. 2. "Steve Jobs: Died Buddhist, Raised Lutheran". Archived from the original on July 28, 2012. 3. Misa, T. J. (2011). "Steven P. Jobs (1955-2011)". Science 334 (6058): 919-919. doi:10.1126/science.1216019. PMID 22096183. edit 4. O'Reilly, T. (2011). "Steve Jobs (1955-2011)". Nature 479 (7371): 42. doi:10.1038/479042a. PMID 22051667. edit 5. Caulfield, Brian. "Steve Jobs' Death Certificate Reveals His Final Resting Place". Forbes Magazine. Archived from the original on September 16, 2012. Retrieved September 2, 2012. His occupation was listed as 'entrepreneur.' 6. | 7. | 8. | 9. | Thanks

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Description (1st sentence of wiki page)
by practikalmind 23 Jan '15

23 Jan '15

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Wikipedia image
by practikalmind 23 Jan '15

23 Jan '15

Hi, What is the best way to get the main image of a wiki page? For example, I would like to retrieve http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Steve_Jobs_Headsho… for the Steve Jobs wiki page <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs> . thanks

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Re: [Mediawiki-api] [Wikidata-l] Freebase like API with an OUTPUT feature ?
by Lydia Pintscher 09 Jan '15

09 Jan '15

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 6:43 PM, Denny Vrandečić <vrandecic(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Actually, since Wikidata allows now properties on properties, one might > easily create an item "Disambiguating property" and then make a claim > "instance of - Disambiguating property" on the relevant property. there is > no need for any extra implementation work. And in fact that already exists ;-) See for example https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P345 Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

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Freebase like API with an OUTPUT feature ?
by Thad Guidry 08 Jan '15

08 Jan '15

Hello New Freebase :) I have updated the OpenRefine reconciliation redo task to support reconciling against Wikidata here: https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/issues/805 However, in our inspection of your API, would could not find a close approximate for something that the Freebase API had, which was OUTPUT of Properties for each Entity / Item that is returned with a search, as shown in examples here: ALL http://freebase-search.freebaseapps.com/?filter=(all+type%3A%2Feducation%2F… and PART OF http://freebase-search.freebaseapps.com/?filter=(all+type%3A%2Feducation%2F… Looking at the Wikidata API, this query syntax does not provide additional property (CLAIM) details: https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbsearchentities&search=Valve&lan… I would ideally like to have a way to output STATEMENTS or CLAIMS and their values. An ALL CLAIMS parameter, as well as providing which CLAIMS perhaps separated by | pipe. Is there a way to do so now with the current implementation somehow ? Thanks in advance, Thad +ThadGuidry <https://www.google.com/+ThadGuidry>

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About the Page id in recent change list
by Lin Jin 05 Jan '15

05 Jan '15

Hi mediawiki-api, Recently we encounter some recent changes like: *http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&continue=-%7C%7C&rccontinue=20150104205209%7C147307576&list=recentchanges&rclimit=1&rcprop=comment%7Cflags%7Cids%7Cloginfo%7Csizes%7Ctimestamp%7Ctitle%7Cuser <http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&continue=-%7C%7C&rccont…>* I am wondering why the page id is 0. Thanks Lin Jin

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