Mediawiki-api October 2015

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MediaWiki API in specific usage
by Support Technique 19 Feb '26

19 Feb '26

Hello, I'm developing a Joomla 3! plugin based on mediawiki API. The goal is importing all datas (titles and description or definitions) from Wiki database to a Joomla website database. Cause the Joomla! website will be finally used as a dictionnary. Now can you tell me how to proceed, please? Unfortunately, the available tutorials on MediaWiki are not so clear on this usage situation. Thanks for answer me as soon as you can! -- Logo Internis Group <http://www.internis-group.com/> *Modeste EKAMBI* Senior Software Engineer - Internis Group Agence experte des projets web et IT - Développement sur mesure - Développement web et mobile, d'applications et sites internet Skype: internis.group Téléphone: 699-789-772 / 679-998-516 Mail: support(a)internis-group.com Blog: http://blog.internis-group.com Site: http://www.internis-group.com <http://internis-group.com>

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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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query pageID with mobilefrontend
by Luigi Assom 09 Nov '15

09 Nov '15

Hi, i'd like to extract paragraph of articles already formatted, so to apply an accordion on the content. Is it possible to query the ID of the page like with action=mobileview? in the same way of action=query&*pageids*=7955 ?? thank you, Luigi

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How can I get the deleted revisions of a user?
by shiyue zhang 02 Nov '15

02 Nov '15

I'm doing a research work on Wikipedia, thanks to the API, I have got most of the data I need. But now I'm trying to assess user's reputation, and thus I need to get the deleted revisions of a user. However, API says I don't have permission to view deleted revision information. I really need this data, please help me. Thanks a lot! -- Zhang Shiyue *Tel*: +86 18801167900 *E-mail*: byryuer(a)gmail.com, yuer3677(a)163.com State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology No.10 Xitucheng Road, Haidian District Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications Beijing, China.

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What means exactly the index parameter in this API search query? It's not what I guess or there is a bug.
by soulchainer＠tuta.io 08 Oct '15

08 Oct '15

Hi to all. I'm trying to do an exercise from FreeCodeCamp (http://freecodecamp.com/challenges/zipline-build-a-wikipedia-viewer) and I'm using, for now, this query (link to the API Sandbox): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=query&list=search&f… I get something like this: ... "query": { "pages": { "53307": { "pageid": 53307, "ns": 0, "title": "Lepidoptera", "index": 1 }, "31500598": { "pageid": 31500598, "ns": 0, "title": "List of Lepidoptera of Metropolitan France", "index": 2 }, "8279262": { "pageid": 8279262, "ns": 0, "title": "List of Lepidoptera that feed on Ipomoea", "index": 10 }, ... }, ..., "search": [ { "ns": 0, "title": "Lepidoptera", "snippet": "The Lepidoptera (/\u02ccl\u025bp\u0268\u02c8d\u0252pt\u0259r\u0259/ lep-i-DOP-t\u0259r-\u0259) is an order of insects that includes moths and butterflies (both called lepidopterans). 180,000 species", "titlesnippet": "Lepidoptera" }, { "ns": 0, "title": "List of Lepidoptera of Metropolitan France", "snippet": "Lepidoptera of France consist of both the butterflies and moths recorded from Metropolitan France. According to a recent estimate, there are a total of", "titlesnippet": "List of Lepidoptera of Metropolitan France" }, { "ns": 0, "title": "Macroglossinae (Lepidoptera)", "snippet": "The Macroglossinae are a sub-family of Sphingidae moths in the order Lepidoptera. The subfamily is divided into three tribes: Dilophonotini, Macroglossini", "titlesnippet": "Macroglossinae (Lepidoptera)" }, ... ] ... Well... My doubt is: what thing exactly refers to the «index» parameter in «pages» objects? At first instance, I believed it was the index of the same page in the «search» array of objects. That seems logic. But, when using that, sometimes certain indexes simply don't match (they pair «pageid» from one page with «titlesnippet», «snippet», etc from another page). So, I don't know if that «index» parameter is, in fact, about some other thing or if, instead, there is a bug/problem with the API in this matter. And, of course, I know that array index order starts at 0. And already searched about this in the wiki, and found nothing. If anybody can enlighten me about this, I will be very grateful :). Thanks in advance for reading me :). And also my apologies in advance, just in case I commited some mistake here: this is my first time writing to a mailing list.

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how to get a user's info by his id?
by shiyue zhang 05 Oct '15

05 Oct '15

Hello, I want to get a user's contributions by his id, but API can only query it by user name. I need help. Thanks.

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REST v1 API: Replacing bodyOnly flag in wikitext to HTML transform end point with body_only
by Gabriel Wicke 02 Oct '15

02 Oct '15

Hello, in an effort to standardize all post parameters in the REST v1 API to use snake_case names, we have deprecated the bodyOnly flag in the wikitext to HTML transform end point [1]. Instead, clients should use body_only, as mentioned in the documentation. We plan to remove support for the old form by the end of November. Thanks, Gabriel [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/?doc#!/Transforms/post_transform_wikit…

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