Mediawiki-api February 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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How can I get API results within alphabetical parameters?
by Andrew Chapman 26 Feb '15

26 Feb '15

I'm using the Wikipedia API to retrieve links within pages, and backlinks to those pages. Is there any way to filter results of prop=links, prop=linkshere or list=backlinks to retrieve only results that e.g. begin with a certain letter? Something like from=La&to=Lz would be nice - but it doesn't appear to be available. At the moment the solution I have is to get ALL the links, using the continuation parameters, then just pull out those that match my criteria. But this can sometimes require numerous API calls, and seems a bit inelegant. Have I missed any other options? Thanks; Andrew

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[Mediawiki-api-announce] BREAKING CHANGE: Title-part parameters will no longer silently break on the '#' character
by Brad Jorsch (Anomie) 20 Feb '15

20 Feb '15

Bug T38358[1] points out that using a '#' character in input passed to ApiQueryBase::titlePartToKey() will silently truncate at the character before the '#', often generating incorrect results. With the merge of Gerrit change 191889,[2] passing a '#' into this method will now return an invalidtitle error, just as already happens when a title-part containing invalid characters such as '<' or '>' is passed in. The affected parameters include: * list=allpages apto, apfrom, and apprefix * list=alldeletedrevisions adrto, adrfrom, and adrprefix * list=deletedrevs drto, drfrom, and drprefix * list=filearchive fato, fafrom, and faprefix * list=allimages aito, aifrom, and aiprefix * list=alllinks alto, alfrom, and alprefix * list=alltransclusions atto, atfrom, and atprefix * list=allfileusages afto, affrom, and afprefix * list=allredirects arto, arfrom, and arprefix * list=allcategories acto, acfrom, and acprefix This should be deployed to WMF wikis with 1.25wmf19, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/Roadmap for the schedule. [1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T38358 [2]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/191889/ -- 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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Changing redirect resolution behavior of OpenSearch?
by Brion Vibber 13 Feb '15

13 Feb '15

I've got a changeset in code review to make the default redirect resolution behavior of action=opensearch consistent between JSON and XML-mode requests. Bug: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T19142 Patch: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/190290 Originally the JSON version did not resolve redirects as it was easier to implement that way, while the XML implementation was separately written and did resolution in order to improve display of content snippets. Content snippets are now included in JSON as well as XML since the implementations were merged, and in general it seems to be better behavior to be consistent across data formats for the same requests. The original behavior can be obtained by supplying an explicit 'redirects=return' parameter to the API request. Are there any compatibility worries here? -- brion

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get number of revisions
by Stefan Kasberger 05 Feb '15

05 Feb '15

Hello, I try to get the number of revisions back for some articles, but I don't find any query where this will be offered over the API. only found this answer at stackoverflow. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7136343/wikipedia-api-how-to-get-the-num… is this still unsolved? would save me lot of time and I think this is one of the most important metadata about an article. I will use it to download just articles between 500 and 5000 revisions, cause lower is useless for our research and more is too expensive to compute. thanks for your answer. cheers, Stefan -- *Stefan Kasberger* *E* mail(a)stefankasberger.at *W* www.openscienceASAP.org

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[Mediawiki-api-announce] BREAKING CHANGE: list=search redirecttitle is no longer an object as of 1.25wmf16
by Brad Jorsch (Anomie) 03 Feb '15

03 Feb '15

It was pointed out in T88397[1] that a list=search query was populating the 'redirecttitle' output property as an object containing the internal members of a MediaWiki Title object, where a string containing the prefixed title is more likely what was intended. Any clients relying on this output property should be updated to deal with the corrected value. This will be deployed to WMF wikis with 1.25wmf16, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/Roadmap for the schedule. [1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88397 -- 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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How to filter values?
by Geoffrey De Belie 02 Feb '15

02 Feb '15

Hi This URL contains the data I need http://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=namesp… However, I don't want first-letter or case to be outputted. Can I select the properties I want? I tried nsprop, no luck, while prop also does not work. Kind regards, Geoffrey De Belie

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