Mediawiki-api September 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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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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[Mediawiki-api-announce] Wikimedia wikis version format changing in 1.27 releases
by Legoktm 30 Sep '15

30 Sep '15

Hi, The format of the version of MediaWiki releases to Wikimedia sites is changing with the 1.27 release cycle. Old format: 1.26wmf24 New format: 1.27.0-wmf.1 This affects the "generator" property of action=query&meta=siteinfo. This is being done to bring the version numbers in compliance with the semantic versioning standard[1]. See the Phabricator ticket for more details[2]. This switch will happen with the 1.27.0-wmf.1 deployment, which started today, and will reach all sites on Thursday, October 1. Frameworks (like Pywikibot) that check the version number for compatibility checking may need to be updated for the new format. Apologies for the late notice. [1] http://semver.org/ [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T67306 -- Legoktm _______________________________________________ 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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[Mediawiki-api-announce] Tips for using bots and user scripts with Flow
by Brad Jorsch (Anomie) 29 Sep '15

29 Sep '15

Apologies to those seeing this twice, but it's important enough to announce widely. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Matthew Flaschen <mflaschen(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 4:05 PM Subject: [Mediawiki-api] Tips for using bots and user scripts with Flow To: mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org, EE List <ee(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Flow will start appearing more widely soon when we release a feature to allow users on certain wikis to opt into Flow on their user talk pages. The most common thing you'll probably want to do on a Flow page is post a new topic. For Pywikibot, that is pretty easy, since they have Flow support now. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/Flow . For on-wiki scripts, you can use MessagePoster (you don't need to know if it's a Flow board ahead of time!): --- var title = new mw.Title( 'titleString' ); var posterPromise = mw.messagePoster.factory.create( title ); posterPromise.done( function ( poster ) { poster.post( 'This is the topic title', 'This is the body of a message posted with MessagePoster' ); } ); --- Depend on 'mediawiki.messagePoster' and 'mediawiki.Title'. In some cases, you might want to check if a link is already there (e.g. to see if a warning template already included links to a particular policy). You can use prop=links for this. Flow is based on an infinitely-scrollable list of topics, each of which is its own page. So to use prop=links, you may need to loop through a set of recent enough topics (e.g. 25) then combine them into a prop=links request, e.g. https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Topic:Sojpiv245cuiw… . pywikibot has support for looping through topics. Some bots need to check the header of a page for wikitext (e.g. a bot exclusion template). This can be done with view-header, but I don't think pywikibot has support for that yet (but it can be done directly). See https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=flow&format=jsonfm&page=Talk%3AF… . A better way to do this would be templatelinks, but I'm not sure if there is an API to show templates PageX transcludes. For other questions, contact us at #wikimedia-collaboration . Or, if a certain tool needs Flow support and you're not sure where to start, you can file a bug (you can also reply here, but a ping in IRC would be appreciated). Matt Flaschen _______________________________________________ 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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Tips for using bots and user scripts with Flow
by Matthew Flaschen 29 Sep '15

29 Sep '15

Flow will start appearing more widely soon when we release a feature to allow users on certain wikis to opt into Flow on their user talk pages. The most common thing you'll probably want to do on a Flow page is post a new topic. For Pywikibot, that is pretty easy, since they have Flow support now. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/Flow . For on-wiki scripts, you can use MessagePoster (you don't need to know if it's a Flow board ahead of time!): --- var title = new mw.Title( 'titleString' ); var posterPromise = mw.messagePoster.factory.create( title ); posterPromise.done( function ( poster ) { poster.post( 'This is the topic title', 'This is the body of a message posted with MessagePoster' ); } ); --- Depend on 'mediawiki.messagePoster' and 'mediawiki.Title'. In some cases, you might want to check if a link is already there (e.g. to see if a warning template already included links to a particular policy). You can use prop=links for this. Flow is based on an infinitely-scrollable list of topics, each of which is its own page. So to use prop=links, you may need to loop through a set of recent enough topics (e.g. 25) then combine them into a prop=links request, e.g. https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Topic:Sojpiv245cuiw… . pywikibot has support for looping through topics. Some bots need to check the header of a page for wikitext (e.g. a bot exclusion template). This can be done with view-header, but I don't think pywikibot has support for that yet (but it can be done directly). See https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=flow&format=jsonfm&page=Talk%3AF… . A better way to do this would be templatelinks, but I'm not sure if there is an API to show templates PageX transcludes. For other questions, contact us at #wikimedia-collaboration . Or, if a certain tool needs Flow support and you're not sure where to start, you can file a bug (you can also reply here, but a ping in IRC would be appreciated). Matt Flaschen

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How to expand only {{subst:}} and {{safesubst:}}
by Nicolas Vervelle 20 Sep '15

20 Sep '15

Hi, Is it possible through the API to give it some wikitext and get in return the same wikitext where {{subst:}} and {{safesubst:}} have been replaced, as they would be when saving an edit ? In WPCleaner <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WPCleaner>, I want to be able to insert things like current date, so I'm currently inserting things like {{safesubst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} but as they don't work inside <ref> tags, I'd prefer to expand then myself rather than relying on the action=edit to do it. Nico

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Re: [Mediawiki-api] How to expand only {{subst:}} and {{safesubst:}}
by billinghurst 19 Sep '15

19 Sep '15

Why not just make <ref> a tag ... {{subst:#tag:ref|{{safesubst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}}}} OR {{#tag:ref|{{safesubst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}}}} Regards, Billinghurst 1. How to expand only {{subst:}} and {{safesubst:}} > (Nicolas Vervelle) > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Nicolas Vervelle <nvervelle(a)gmail.com> > To: List - MediawikiAPI <mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Cc: > Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 13:09:51 +0200 > Subject: [Mediawiki-api] How to expand only {{subst:}} and {{safesubst:}} > Hi, > > Is it possible through the API to give it some wikitext and get in return > the same wikitext where {{subst:}} and {{safesubst:}} have been replaced, > as they would be when saving an edit ? > > In WPCleaner <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WPCleaner>, I want > to be able to insert things like current date, so I'm currently inserting > things like {{safesubst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} but as they don't work inside > <ref> tags, I'd prefer to expand then myself rather than relying on the > action=edit to do it. > > Nico > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-api mailing list > Mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api >

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