Mediawiki-api November 2016

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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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[Mediawiki-api-announce] DEPRECATION: Use of action=purge via GET is deprecated
by Brad Jorsch (Anomie) 29 Dec '16

29 Dec '16

To operate correctly, action=purge needs to write to the database, which means it should be done using a POST rather than a GET request. As of Gerrit change 310560,[1] action=purge will begin emitting a warning when used via GET. This should be deployed to WMF wikis with 1.28.0-wmf.20, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.28/Roadmap for the schedule. Clients that use action=paraminfo to determine whether to use GET or POST for an action should automatically switch to POST; any others should manually switch to using POST for this action as soon as possible. To check if your client's user agent is detected making such submissions, you can also use ApiFeatureUsage[2] and look for 'purge-via-GET' once 1.28.0-wmf.20 is rolled out to wikis your client is using. It is planned that this warning will be changed to an error during 1.29. Let's avoid having a repeat of T142155,[3] update your code ASAP instead of waiting until it breaks. Thanks. [1]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/310560/ [2]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiFeatureUsage [3]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142155 -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Senior 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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[Mediawiki-api-announce] BREAKING CHANGE: action=clearhasmsg will require POST
by Brad Jorsch (Anomie) 29 Nov '16

29 Nov '16

With the merge of Gerrit change 324224,[1] action=clearhasmsg will return an error if used via GET rather than POST. The change should be deployed to WMF wikis with 1.29.0-wmf.5, see https://www.mediawiki.org/ wiki/MediaWiki_1.29/Roadmap for the schedule. This should have very low impact: analysis of logs indicates that only Huggle[2] is using it, and Huggle has already been updated. [1]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/324224/ [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Huggle -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Senior 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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Internationalization of action API errors and warnings
by Brad Jorsch (Anomie) 16 Nov '16

16 Nov '16

In Gerrit change 321406[1] and related patches,[2] I've proposed code to allow the MediaWiki action API to return errors and warnings in languages other than English. Feedback and code review would be appreciated. A detailed description of the proposed changes is posted at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API/Architecture_work/i18n#Warnings_and_erro…. Summary: - For clients of the API, some error codes will change, particularly from query submodules. If you're trying to parse the human-readable error and warning text, these also are likely to change. A few modules that returned error or warning text in a non-standard manner have been changed. For the most part, though, client code should not need updating since the default is backwards-compatible. - For extension authors, several ApiBase methods are deprecated and should be replaced. The existing patches[2] may serve as examples. [1]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/321406/ [2]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/topic:api-error-i18n/T47843 -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Senior Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation

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Unable to upload using Python requests
by David Jensen 16 Nov '16

16 Nov '16

Hi all! May I request that some python sample code be posted uploading a local file, ideally using the requests module (which seems to be relatively canonical)? I don't think I'm the first to be stymied by mw:API:Upload (cf. Boxsnake's 18-month old unanswered question at mw:API_talk:Upload ; also http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33839706/simplest-way-to-upload-a-file-t… where the answer was essentially "give up and use a bot framework"). Essentially, I cannot seem to avoid getting a "badupload_file"/"File upload param file is not a file upload; be sure to use multipart/form-data for your POST and include a filename in the Content-Disposition header." I am under the impression I am doing both of those things, my headers are: {'Content-Type': 'multipart/form-data', 'Content-Disposition': 'form-data; name="file"; filename="storkk_test_upload1.jpg"', 'User-Agent': 'Drudgebane Storkksbot (contact [[C:User:Storkk]]) Based on python requests/2.11.1', 'Connection': 'keep-alive', 'Content-Length': '93990', 'Cookie': 'forceHTTPS=true; commonswiki_BPsession=...(elided)...', 'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate', 'Accept': '*/*'} The full code (with a slightly different filename test), trying a few different things, is at http://pastebin.com/PxLk85mR I would greatly appreciate some pointers on where I am going wrong. Thanks for your time, storkk

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Access to MediaWiki API with 900 RPS
by Eric Kuo 15 Nov '16

15 Nov '16

Hi, This is Eric from Yahoo. My team develops mobile apps for Taiwan and Hong Kong users. We want to provide wiki description on keywords in our contents, and we consider using MediaWiki API:OpenSearch and/or API:Query to achieve this. Our estimated RPS is 900, and we will cache the query result on our side. We would like to know if there is any concern with respect to our RPS, and if so, what is the best practice. Any comments and suggestions are welcome. Thank you for your time. Best regards,Eric

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Re: [Mediawiki-api] Retrieve a wiki article with URL query parameters?
by Daniel Barrett 05 Nov '16

05 Nov '16

I asked: >Can the MediaWiki API retrieve the HTML of a wiki page, if that page changes its rendering based on the URL query string? Never mind, I got it working. Just add those URL query parameters to the WebRequest object that's being used: RequestContext::getMain()->getRequest()->setVal('bar', 1'); Then pass the WebRequest object to the DerivativeRequest (first parameter). Works great! DanB

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