Mediawiki-api June 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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Where are information about copyright, assessments, license, attribution, url?
by Luca Libonati 28 Jun '16

28 Jun '16

Hi all, looking at https://dumps.wikimedia.org/commonswiki/latest/, I'm not able to find where information about copyright, assessments, license, attribution, url are. Inside image table in img_metadata field there are other image information but not the one said before. If I call the url https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=xml&prop=imageinfo&t… I can see all theese information Which is the dump that stores copyright, assessments, license, attribution, url...? Thank you. Best, Luca

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[Mediawiki-api-announce] [BREAKING CHANGE] meta=notifications outputs array instead of object since 1.27.0-wmf.22
by Roan Kattouw 28 Jun '16

28 Jun '16

As of 1.27.0-wmf.22 (deployed to WMF wikis April 26-28) and MediaWiki release 1.27 (specifically, this change <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/rECHOb10bd700333d2eef10c7df0a9946b87fd451…> in Echo), meta=notifications will return its result as an array rather than an object. Previously, the meta=notifications output looked like: { "query": { "notifications": { "list": { "12345": { "id": "12345", "type": "edit-user-talk", ... }, ... } Now, it looks like: { "query": { "notifications": { "list": [ { "id": "12345", "type": "edit-user-talk", ... }, ... ] My apologies for the late announcement, and thanks to APerson and Cienca Al Poder for noticing <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138690> and encouraging me to write this announcement. _______________________________________________ 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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please unsubscribe me I can't
by François Colonna 27 Jun '16

27 Jun '16

Hello could you please unsubscribe me. I have got an issue with mailman : I could not received my password and thus login. Thanks François Colonna

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please unsubscribe me I can't
by François Colonna 27 Jun '16

27 Jun '16

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Retrieving the maximum allowed size for an article ?
by Nicolas Vervelle 25 Jun '16

25 Jun '16

Hi, Is it possible to know through the API what is the maximum allowed size for an article on a given wiki ? One of the task of my bot is to update maintenance pages with a list of pages containing some types of errors, and sometimes the produced list is bigger than the maximum allowed size for an article (2MB), so the API returns a "contenttoobig" error. Is it possible to know what the limit is before hitting it ? Currently, I'm trimming the result progressively until the API stops complaining about the size... Nico https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CHECKWIKI/WPC_002_dump

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Check for banning
by Luca Libonati 25 Jun '16

25 Jun '16

Hi all, I'm trying to call wikimedia api whithout success. Everything works fine until today. I could call api and get results. >From today, when I call the api, it keep loading without return any result. I checked here https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=spamblacklist&url=http://freetous… to see if the url is banned but everything seems ok. Is there another way to check if my ip is banned? Best, Luca

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