Mediawiki-api July 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) 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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Is there any Objective-C wrapper for Wikipedia API
by Brian Gerstle 28 Jul '15

28 Jul '15

Sorry for awkwardly entering/reviving the thread, guess I wasn't on this list until now! Jason, thanks for jumping in! Great to "see" you again :-). Tong, he's correct that our app is open source and you're free to use anything there that's useful. Our current networking stack is built on top of AFNetworking, and you can find the API calls we're making inside the various "Fetcher" classes (in the Networking folder <https://github.com/wikimedia/wikipedia-ios/tree/master/Wikipedia/Networking>). We hope to eventually release a standalone MediaWiki client in Objective-C, or Swift, or both! However, the dynamic nature of the MediaWiki API's requests and responses will probably require us to keep the framework limited to a set of components that allow iOS developers to build requests and serialize responses into model objects of their choice. We can provide high-level abstractions for the most common queries (i.e. the ones we're already using in the app). We're in the midst of a more UI-focused update at the moment, but hopefully our next big infrastructure push can result in the release of such a library, probably on CocoaPods or Carthage. In the future, you can email mobile-l with any questions related to the iOS client, and be sure to subscribe there for future updates on the app. Cheers! Brian -- EN Wikipedia user page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Brian.gerstle IRC: bgerstle

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[Mediawiki-api-announce] Wikidata - Deprecation & Removal of the ungroupedlist API parameter
by Addshore 28 Jul '15

28 Jul '15

The ungroupedlist api parameter will be deprecated from the wbgetentities and wbgetclaims modules on Wikidata as of the next deployment on Wednesday 29th July. The parameter has very low usage and removing it removes code complexity in the API. Phabricatior - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T106863 Deprecation change - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/225903 Removal change - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/226643 To adjust for this change users of the API simply have to use the default format, which is grouped by property ID. Cross posted from https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-tech/2015-July/000804.html per request. (Sorry to people getting this twice) Addshore _______________________________________________ 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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Is there any Objective-C wrapper for Wikipedia API
by Tong Kuo 27 Jul '15

27 Jul '15

Hello there, This page<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Client_code> lists some popular language wrappers of Wikipedia API, however there is no mention of Objective-C, I wonder if there is any Objective-C wrapper authenticated by Wikipedia Official. Thanks. Best Regards, Tong Kuo

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Wikidata API: feedcontributions size>50?
by csarasua 09 Jul '15

09 Jul '15

Hi, I am using the API to get the list of Wikidata contributions of particular users. I am using "https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=xxx&toponl…" for that. But I have seen that I can only get a maximum number of edits (50) this way, so the response is leaving many of the edits out. Is there a way to get all the edits of a contributor in a period of time (e.g. one particular day), even if they are more than 50? Thanks. Cristina -- Cristina Sarasua Institute for Web Science and Technologies (WeST) Universität Koblenz-Landau Universitätsstraße 1 56070 Koblenz Germany e: csarasua(a)uni-koblenz.de p: +49 261 287 2772 f: +49 261 287 100 2772 w: http://west.uni-koblenz.de

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PageID on PARSE Api
by Luigi Assom 02 Jul '15

02 Jul '15

Wiki API team, I am working on a project to give structure to the knowledge base of wikipedia. I am using both action=query and action=parse, the latter to fetch content article. With action=query I can get the pageId of the article, but both actions cannot be combined. Is there a parameter to fetch pageID of a page with a parse request? e.g. action=parse&title=DNA&*prop=curid??* Thank you, Luigi

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[Mediawiki-api-announce] BREAKING CHANGE: Removal for wddx and dump output formats (and reminder of future removal of yaml, txt, and dbg formats)
by Brad Jorsch (Anomie) 01 Jul '15

01 Jul '15

Per the RfC a while back,[1] we've now removed the wddx and dump output formats from the API. This is expected to be a very low-impact change, as logs don't show anyone actually using these anymore. This change should be deployed to WMF wikis with 1.26wmf13, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/Roadmap for the schedule. Note that the yaml, txt, and dbg output formats are scheduled for removal in November 2015. Users using yaml should be able to easily change to json as it's entirely identical. [1]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Ditch_crappy_API_formats -- 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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