Mediawiki-api November 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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Remote login
by Rodrigo Padula 19 Nov '15

19 Nov '15

Hello guys, I'm trying to use the mediawiki API on pt.wikipedia to create a Firefox Add-on to login and read/write to wikipedia I tried many times and in many wayes to login but I'm not able to do it using my account. There are any way to login / edit / read data from wikipedia using a normal user/password from a html page + JS from a firefox add-on? Best regards Rodrigo Padula Coordenador de Projetos Grupo Wikimedia Brasileiro de Educação e Pesquisa http://www.wikimedia.org.br 21 99326-0558

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WMF Survey: Please help us understand third-party use of Wikipedia's content
by Sylvia Ventura 17 Nov '15

17 Nov '15

Dear Wikipedia data/API user, The WMF’s Engineering, Product and Partnerships teams are conducting a short survey to help us understand how organizations are pulling and using data from our projects. This information will inform future features and improvements to our data tools and APIs. We would appreciate a few minutes of your time. The link to the Survey below will take you to a Google Form - there is no need to sign up to fill out the survey. The survey should take no more than 10 minutes. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1yUrHzyLABN419RCDbzepjoRWCbaWYV4wbtbKPa95C4… Thank you for your input and feedback! Warm wishes, Sylvia PS-- Apologies for the cross posting, you might see this note on a couple of other lists. -- *Sylvia Ventura **Strategic Partnerships **Wikimedia Foundation **+1 (415) 839 6885 x6788 *

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[Mediawiki-api-announce] BREAKING CHANGE: Removal of deprecated formats dbg, txt, and yaml
by Brad Jorsch (Anomie) 13 Nov '15

13 Nov '15

Per the RfC a while back[1] and the previous announcement,[2] we're about to remove the deprecated dbg, txt, and yaml output formats from the API. This is planned for 1.27.0-wmf.8, which is currently scheduled to be deployed to WMF wikis starting December 1, 2015.[3] Users using the yaml format should be able to easily change to json, as the format is entirely identical. This removal may impact some tools. If you know of any tool using these deprecated formats, please encourage them to upgrade before December 1. [1]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Ditch_crappy_API_formats [2]: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-api-announce/2015-July/0000… [3]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/Roadmap -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Senior 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 03 Nov '15

03 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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