Mediawiki-api December 2015

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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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Dump corrupted ?
by Luigi Assom 22 Dec '15

22 Dec '15

Hello, not sure if this is the proper mail list to notify - I am experiencing problems with data corrupted on wiki dump. I tried three times to download the last english dump (multistream)

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Public service announcement: Clarification of list=prefixsearch semantics
by Brad Jorsch (Anomie) 21 Dec '15

21 Dec '15

If you're also on wikitech-l, you may have seen the recent announcement[1] of some work by WMF's Discovery team to improve the search results popped up by the search box in wiki pages. Assuming it continues to receive positive feedback, it's rather likely that the code behind their temporary "action=cirrus-suggest" API module will become the backing engine behind action=opensearch and list=prefixsearch. This brought to my attention that "list=prefixsearch" has never been particularly well-documented, so Gerrit change 260383[2] was submitted and merged to clarify the issue. Note this isn't a change in behavior, it's a clarification of the existing behavior to avoid future confusion when that behavior is improved. ApiQueryPrefixSearch was added in Gerrit change 123118[3] to be like action=opensearch but usable as a generator. If your client code is using list=prefixsearch in the expectation that it would work like the similarly-named web UI page Special:PrefixIndex, you should review your usage to make sure that it is actually behaving as you intend. If you are really wanting a list of titles with a prefix rather than a *search* for pages "matching" a prefix in some loosely-defined sense, you should be using list=allpages with the apprefix parameter instead. [1]: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-December/084356.html [2]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/260383/ [3]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/123118/ -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Senior Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation

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[Mediawiki-api-announce] DEPRECATION: Removal of lgtoken, cookieprefix, and sessionid response values from action=login
by Brad Jorsch (Anomie) 15 Dec '15

15 Dec '15

Long ago, the only mechanism for session management in MediaWiki was certain cookies set by the User class. When ApiLogin was written, in addition to setting these cookies as usual it also returned some of the values needed to construct these cookies on the client. Presumably this was to make things easier for clients that somehow couldn't handle the standard cookie headers. Then CentralAuth came along. Now, constructing the cookies manually would log you in to the local wiki only, without taking advantage of the SUL mechanism. Then T55032[1] happened, and clients that were using the manual-construction mechanism had to update their code because one of the cookie names changed and that wasn't part of the data being returned. And soon, we'll have SessionManager and AuthManager, which will make it possible for login to easily happen in ways that don't involve cookies at all. So it's time to eliminate the pretense that clients can manually construct the cookies instead of handing the standard HTTP cookie headers. Tentative plan is to deprecate them now and then remove them sometime during 1.28; if anyone objects to this schedule, please raise your concerns in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121527. [1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T55032 -- 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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credit and attribution re displaying Wikipedia articles and summaries in a frame
by Jim Andrews 10 Dec '15

10 Dec '15

Dear Mediawiki-api, My web+hybrid mobile app uses the Mediawiki-api to search for Wikipedia articles associated with a particular latitude/longitude. The searched coordinates are determined at run-time. In a session, the user may view several lists of article summaries and several Wikipedia articles. Article summaries of nearby articles are displayed in a list and, when one of the summaries is clicked, the associated Wikipedia article is displayed as-is in a frame that is in my app. I am not sure if this is acceptable to Wikipedia. Is it? Also, assuming it is, what sort of credit/attribution is appropriate. Thanks, Jim Andrews

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