Mediawiki-api May 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 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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wikidata api - query and generator search that returns human readable data
by Mixter,Jeff 28 May '15

28 May '15

I am trying to query the Wikidata api using the following action: action=query&generator=search&gsrsearch. The query works but what I want back as a result is human readable data about the entity. See below results: https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=query&generator=search&gsrsearch=… I was expecting it to work that same a the wikipedia api. I can ask for various properties from the Wikipedia page. See below: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=query&generator=search…<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=query&generator=search…> So what I would expect is to get back human readable labels and descriptions (when applicable) from the api (the same way you do with a wbsearchentities query). I wanted to just use the wbsearchentities action but the index seems to be acting odd (it looks like it is a prefix search or something like that). For example if I do a entity search for 'columbus' one of the results is Columbus Ohio and the results include human readable strings: https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbsearchentities&search=columbus&… But if I add Ohio to the search query the only result is for "Columbus Ohio Temple". https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbsearchentities&search=columbus%… The issue that I am running into is that I am trying to match oddly formatted entity labels (It's library authority data...) to entities in Wikidata and I really do not want to do much string manipulation on the original entity label. Does anyone have any solutions or suggestions? Thanks, Jeff Mixter Software Engineer OCLC Research 614-761-5159 mixterj(a)oclc.org

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[Mediawiki-api-announce] Breaking changes in action=import
by Brad Jorsch (Anomie) 18 May '15

18 May '15

Since last month,[1] action=import would ignore the rootpage parameter when the namespace parameter was specified, due to underlying changes in MediaWiki to make Special:Import clearer. Starting with 1.26wmf7,[2][3] it will instead give an error if both parameters are specified to avoid incorrect importing by code expecting the old behavior. [1]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/179116/ [2]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/210945/ [3]: See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/Roadmap for the deployment schedule. -- 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 retrieve Bio information of a person in wikipedia using wikipedia web API?
by Sivashanmugam karthi 07 May '15

07 May '15

I am working on retrieving some particular bio details of a person from wikipedia page of that person through *wikipedia web API*. I need to retrieve the *bio information box* of a person. *--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------* [image: Bio information of Mark Babic] *-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------* *I found how to retrieve the content box , introduction paragraph and all.* The below URL is used to retrieve the first introduction para of the wiki webpage. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=query&prop=extracts&e… 1)But I am struck with getting the above bio information box through wiki web api.So that i could*extract the specific details i want.* 2) Is it possible to get a *single information* like only the full name of the person or only DOB of the person *through a single query* (instead of getting the bio whole information and extracting the details from it).

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[Mediawiki-api-announce] API result formatting changes for JSON (formatversion=2)
by Brad Jorsch (Anomie) 05 May '15

05 May '15

After a lot of work, we're ready to provide a more sensible data layout for format=json results (and also format=php). You can enable this in your requests by adding "&formatversion=2", but do note that the output formatting isn't entirely stable yet and might change without warning. Without specifying formatversion=2, things should be backwards-compatible. But there are some caveats: - Modules that were previously outputting raw booleans in JSON may now have those properties being output using the standard convention: empty-string for true and absent for false. Instances of this should be reported in Phabricator <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/> to be fixed, please tag with #MediaWiki-API <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/200/> and the tag for the relevant extension. - format=xml will now reversibly mangle tag and attribute names that are not valid XML, instead of just outputting invalid XML. - Previously-announced breaking changes to log entry parameter formatting, that are not actually part of this general result formatting change but were made at about the same time. With formatversion=2, we can make some useful changes: - Return booleans as boolean true instead of empty-string. Where appropriate,[1] return boolean false instead of omitting the property. - Return empty objects in JSON as {}, rather than []. - Have action=query's "pages" be an array, instead of an object with page ids as keys that can be difficult to iterate. - Provide useful property names instead of '*'. - Eliminate useless indirection, e.g. {"text":"..."} instead of {"text":{"*":"..."}} and {"key1":"value1","key2":"value2"} instead of [{"name":"key1","*":"value1"},{"name":"key2","*":"value2"}]. If you see missed opportunities to make the above changes in existing formatversion=2 output, or if there are other changes that would make API output easier to use in JSON, please let me know! Phabricator <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/> would be ideal (tag with #MediaWiki-API <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/200/>, and the appropriate extension's tag if applicable), or reply on the mediawiki-api mailing list <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api>. Thanks. [1]: Where the property is usually false, it's sometimes just bloat to include it. -- 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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ARTIST FOCUS
by artclvb 04 May '15

04 May '15

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