Mediawiki-api June 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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[Mediawiki-api-announce] Changes to meta=siteinfo with formatversion=2
by Brad Jorsch (Anomie) 23 Jun '15

23 Jun '15

Note that formatversion=2 is still considered slightly experimental, in that backwards-incompatible changes like this can still happen. If you see any other changes like this that should be made, please report them! Starting in 1.26wmf11, the following changes will be made in the output from meta=siteinfo when formatversion=2 is in use: - Output from siprop=namespaces will be an array, rather than an object indexed by namespace number. See T102645.[1] - The 'add', 'remove', 'add-self', and 'remove-self' subarrays in siprop=usergroups will always be arrays, never objects with numeric keys. - The (sub)arrays in the output from siprops restrictions, extensiontags, functionhooks, variables, protocols, and showhooks are now guaranteed to be arrays. Getting objects with numeric keys from these seems to have been unlikely or impossible anyway, but now it's guaranteed. [1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T102645 -- 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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Wikimedia api connection timed out
by Ravaganban 22 Jun '15

22 Jun '15

Hi, I was using the Wikimedia api for the getting the introductory content. But all of a sudden I get connection timed out only in the server which works fine in localhost and also the url alone works fine in a browser. I have tried with many other REST urls, this behaviour happens only for the wikipedia url. I have also posted a question in stack overflow http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30915871/connection-timed-out-only-for-w… Have anybody had a similar experience, any ideas welcome. With thanks, Venkat

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Action edit "captchaid" and "captchaword" parameters are gone...
by Monte Hurd 20 Jun '15

20 Jun '15

Hi I just noticed "captchaid" and "captchaword" were removed from the "edit" api response some time ago ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/rSVN104064 ). Are there no longer conditions where edits require captchas? If not we'll gladly remove our apps edit captcha handling code :) -Monte

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Information about MagicWords
by Nicolas Vervelle 16 Jun '15

16 Jun '15

Hi, The meta query siteinfo allows to retrieve a list of magic words with basic information about them (aliases) [1]. Is there any way to retrieve more information about them, especially how they are supposed to be used: which ones should be used with {{#...}}, which ones are image parameters, ... That would help a lot to code an external parser for wikitext. Thanks in advance Nico [1] https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?continue=&siprop=magicwords&action=query…

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[Mediawiki-api-announce] The move of all Wikimedia sites to HTTPS affects the API
by Brad Jorsch (Anomie) 13 Jun '15

13 Jun '15

See the announcement at https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2015-June/078214.html For the avoidance of confusion: Yes, the move to HTTPS will affect API requests as well. Your HTTP library should be handling HTTPS for you transparently, but if for some reason it doesn't you may have to update your client. -- 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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