Mediawiki-api August 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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query pageID with mobilefrontend
by Luigi Assom 09 Nov '15

09 Nov '15

Hi, i'd like to extract paragraph of articles already formatted, so to apply an accordion on the content. Is it possible to query the ID of the page like with action=mobileview? in the same way of action=query&*pageids*=7955 ?? thank you, Luigi

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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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Office Hour about mediawiki.org API pages Tuesday Sept 1
by S Page 28 Aug '15

28 Aug '15

Tuesday 2015-09-01T18:00 UTC [1] (11am San Francisco time) we will be having an IRC office hour [2] about the mw.org API: namespace. * As Wikimedia adds other APIs such as Wikidata Query Service and RESTBase, the structure and navigation needs to evolve. * Also, as you may know we are writing pages to encourage third-party developers to use Wikimedia data and APIs, and eventually want this "Web APIs hub" [3] to become the "front door" rather than API:Main_page. ** and presented with a different appearance to new developers [4] If you have thoughts, opinions, or needs from the API pages, I hope you can attend. The last bullet point is challenging and controversial, so it helps to share ideas and approaches. The Phab task https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110108 links to related tasks. It's also a Phab event https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E50 and on the internal WMF Engineering calendar. See you in irc:freenode.net#wikimedia-office [1] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=18&min=00&sec=0&d… [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Web_APIs_hub [4] http://devhub.wmflabs.org/wiki/API:Web_APIs_hub -- =S Page WMF Tech writer, and Quim Gil Engineering Community manager

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get wiki content from api
by ArtGiray . 28 Aug '15

28 Aug '15

What is the difference of this two queries? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car?action=raw https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Car&action=raw (i used first one before, then use second, but sometimes it's not response...) are any of these queries doing extra processing on server side ? which one i should use for more speed on my wikibot? (or any different query suggestion?)

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[Mediawiki-api-announce] Wikidata API breaking changes
by Addshore 27 Aug '15

27 Aug '15

Hi all! We have some breaking API changes that will soon be deployed to wikidata.org. The deployment date should be: 9th September 2015 (just under 2 weeks) The change making the breaks an be found at: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/227686/ The breaking changes are: - XML output aliases are now grouped by language - XML output may no longer give elements when they are empty - XML any claim, qualifier, reference or snak elements that had an '_idx' element will no longer have it - ALL output may now give empty elements, ie. labels when an entity has none If you want to see a wikipage explaining these changes take a look at: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Addshore/API_Break_September_2015 If you have any questions regarding these breaking changes please ask! 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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Extension:Proofreadpage edit
by Zenon Panoussis 24 Aug '15

24 Aug '15

Hello all I am using the Proofreadpage extension to create a wiki of old Greek legislation. I can upload the images and unproofed texts and create all the Page: pages with mwclient, but I can for the life of me not figure how to create the Index: pages with properly filled-in form fields with the API. Example here: http://textarchives.gr/wiki/index.php?title=Index:Fek-1997-a-0260.pdf&actio… (please don't save the page, or else the sample form will vanish). Creating and saving the page is not a problem. The problem is how to fill in the form fields before saving. Does anyone know how to do this or have a pointer to something that might get me on the right track? Z

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