Mediawiki-api April 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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Request 'RandomInCategory' via API
by Anonymous 27 Apr '16

27 Apr '16

Hello! Sorry for my bad English. Through the implementation of the current API impossible to get a random article in category. This greatly reduces the potential of education like API, and Wikipedia as a whole. This is usually not a problem withcategories in which less than 500 catmembers, but to select a random article in categories, wich have more than hundreds of thousands of catmembers becomes impossible! Special: RandomInKategory is not a convenient solution for the developer, since it does not allow to receive pageid and makes writing a lot of redundant code to get things that are otherwise easily accessible via the api. Can we expect that this feature will be available through the API?

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how get via a geosearch the list of the Wikipedia articles missing an illustration, i.e. without a photo
by Oleksiy Muzalyev 26 Apr '16

26 Apr '16

Greetings, Wikimeida API Colleagues, I am working on the application for finding geo-locations of articles of different language versions of Wikipedia, including articles which need an illustration: http://ausleuchtung.ch/geo_wiki/ , either by the coordinates in the articles themselves, or by the wikipedia tag of the OSM map. While searching by the coordinates contained in Wikipedia articles the application basically uses the query: https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=geosearch&gsradius=700… Is it possible to modify this query so that it shows only the Wikipedia articles which do not have any image illustration without looping via all "pageid"s? But even with looping, even by checking by each "pageid", I encounter a problem. For example, these articles have got no illustration: https://fr.wikipedia.org/?curid=9754525 or https://fr.wikipedia.org/?curid=8578447 (in this article there is even "image missing" banner). Still, the following queries show the results with numerous auxiliary JPG, SVG, and PNG images: https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&pageid=9754525&prop=images https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&pageid=8578447&prop=images The application displays geo-locations of articles around the click on the map, but then I have to open each article by clicking on the link in the corresponding geo-marker in order to find an article without an illustration. It is quite time consuming and fault-prone as often there are dozens of geo-markers, dozens of articles to open. With best regards, Oleksiy

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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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[Mediawiki-api-announce] REST API to follow page redirects from April 25th
by Gabriel Wicke 14 Apr '16

14 Apr '16

We are planning to enable automatic redirect following in all REST API [1] HTML entry points on April 25th. When responding to a request for a redirected title [2], the response headers will contain: Status: 302 Location: <path-to-redirect-target> For most clients, this means that their HTTP client will automatically follow redirects, simplifying common use cases. The few clients with a need to retrieve the redirect page content itself have two options: 1) Disable following redirects in the client. For HTML and data-parsoid entry points, the response still includes the HTML body & regular response headers like the ETag. 2) Send a `?redirect=false` query string parameter. This option is recommended for browsers, which lack control over redirect behavior for historical security reasons. If you do have a need to avoid following redirects, you can make these changes before the feature is enabled. Internally, we have already done so for VisualEditor and the Mobile Content Service. See also https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T118548 for background & related discussion. Let us know if you have any concerns or questions about this. Thanks, Gabriel Wicke for the Wikimedia Services Team [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/?doc (using en.wikipedia.org as an example) [2]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Redirects _______________________________________________ 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 HTML of a wiki page (like wget)?
by Daniel Barrett 06 Apr '16

06 Apr '16

Is it possible to obtain the full HTML of a wiki page via the Mediawiki API? I’m looking for the API equivalent of: wget https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Example Reason: Our wiki requires a login in order to read articles. So "wget" produces only a "Login required" page. I can log in via API, but can't figure out how to obtain the HTML, just the wikitext (action=query, prop=revisions, rvprop = content). Other solutions are welcome too.... Thanks, DanB

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