Mediawiki-api March 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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Deprecating rest.wikimedia.org in favor of /api/rest_v1/
by Gabriel Wicke 18 Apr '16

18 Apr '16

We have decided to officially retire the rest.wikimedia.org domain in favor of /api/rest_v1/ at each individual project domain. For example, https://rest.wikimedia.org/en.wikipedia.org/v1/?doc becomes https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/?doc Most clients already use the new path, and benefit from better performance from geo-distributed caching, no additional DNS lookups, and sharing of TLS / HTTP2 connections. We intend to shut down the rest.wikimedia.org entry point around March, so please adjust your clients to use /api/rest_v1/ soon. Thank you for your cooperation, Gabriel -- Gabriel Wicke Principal Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation

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How to get the data in JSON format for particular city
by Deven Bhooshan 31 Mar '16

31 Mar '16

Hello Guys, Can you please tell me how can I get the particular City data in json format? I am using this url https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Bengaluru&prop=revis… <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Bengaluru&prop=revis…> to get the Bengaluru city about but it is showing something else. Thanks in advance Deven Bhooshan

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[Mediawiki-api-announce] REST API soon redirecting to canonical URLs
by Gabriel Wicke 15 Mar '16

15 Mar '16

Hi, this is to let you know that we will start redirecting GET requests with non-canonical titles to their canonical equivalent next week. This is done to improve caching, and to ensure reliable purging of cached responses. The vast majority of clients handle redirects transparently, so at most this will lead to a small slow-down from the redirect. To avoid being redirected, make sure to use underscores instead of spaces, as in "Main_Page". Thanks, Gabriel Wicke _______________________________________________ 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] Minor REST API cleanup: Remove experimental listings, make timeuuid parameter mandatory for data-parsoid
by Gabriel Wicke 07 Mar '16

07 Mar '16

tl;dr: You are *very* likely not affected. We are planning two changes in the REST API: 1) Remove the experimental /page/html/ and /page/data-parsoid/ listings [1][2]. Our metrics show that these are essentially unused. The same title listing remains available at /page/title/ [3]. 2) Make the `tid` path parameter in the unstable /page/data-parsoid/{title}/{revision}/{tid} [4] end point mandatory. Data-parsoid is tied to a specific HTML render, and only requests with an explicit timeuuid from the corresponding HTML response are guaranteed to get the correct data-parsoid version. If things go to plan, we will deploy these changes sometime next week. Thank you for your understanding, Gabriel Wicke for the Services team [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/?doc#!/Page_content/get_page_html [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/?doc#!/Page_content/get_page_data_pars… [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/?doc#!/Page_content/get_page_title [4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/?doc#!/Page_content/get_page_data_pars… _______________________________________________ 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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get a definition
by Myers, Nick 07 Mar '16

07 Mar '16

Hi! I'm trying to create a simple dictionary function for a Web App. Basically, I want to be able to click on a word in my app, and it pops up the definition. I can't seem to find a simple way of doing this. Please help! The information contained in this message may be confidential and/or constitute a privileged attorney-client document. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify McGraw-Hill Education immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you.

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