Mediawiki-api January 2017

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Extract interwiki links from paragraph
by Luca Libonati 22 Jan '17

22 Jan '17

Hi All, in a wikimedia commons page like this one https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maradona_at_2012_GCC_Champions_Leag… is there a way to extract links from paragraph "File usage on other wikis" through API? I'm trying a lot of combination with the api sandbox but whitout success. I need to know in which wikipedia pages that image is used. Thank you, Luca

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Developer Wishlist Survey: propose your ideas
by Srishti Sethi 20 Jan '17

20 Jan '17

That's right! At the Wikimedia Developer Summit, we decided to organize a Developer Wishlist Survey, and here we go: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Wishlist The Wikimedia technical community seeks input from developers for developers, to create a high-profile list of desired improvements. The scope of the survey includes the MediaWiki platform (core software, APIs, developer environment, enablers for extensions, gadgets, templates, bots, dumps), the Wikimedia server infrastructure, the contribution process, and documentation. The best part: we want to have the results published by Wednesday, February 15. Yes, in a month, to have a higher chance to influence the Wikimedia Foundation annual plan FY 2017-18. There's no time to lose. *Propose your ideas before the end of January, * either by pushing existing tasks in Phabricator or by creating new ones. You can find instructions on the wiki page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Wishlist>. Questions and feedback are welcome especially on the related Talk page. The voting phase is expected to start on February 6 (tentative). Watch this space (or even better, the wiki page). Cheers, Srishti Sethi Developer Advocate, Technical Collaboration team Wikimedia Foundation https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:SSethi_(WMF)

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Client-login attemps unsuccesful
by geoffreydebelie 19 Jan '17

19 Jan '17

Hi, I'm not able to login using clientlogin. Any help is appreciated. Below things I've already tried: POST https://nl.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=tokens&type=lo… Output: { "batchcomplete": "", "query": { "tokens": { "logintoken": "85af2296d03f8ce504123b7733b0a7ad5880c782+\\" } } } POST https://nl.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=clientlogin&loginreturnurl=ht… Input (text/plain): logintoken=85af2296d03f8ce504123b7733b0a7ad5880c782+\\&username=Smile4ever&password=*******&rememberMe=1 Output: { "error": { "code": "badtoken", "info": "Invalid CSRF token.", "*": "See https://nl.wikipedia.org/w/api.php for API usage." }, "servedby": "mw1288" } Input (application/json): { "logintoken": "85af2296d03f8ce504123b7733b0a7ad5880c782+\\", "username": "Smile4ever", "password": "*******" } Output: { "error": { "code": "notoken", "info": "The \"token\" parameter must be set.", "*": "See https://nl.wikipedia.org/w/api.php for API usage." }, "servedby": "mw1278" } window.onbeforeunload = function() {} Kind regards, Geoffrey De Belie

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Re: [Mediawiki-api] Disabling the API without disabling search suggestions?
by Daniel Barrett 10 Jan '17

10 Jan '17

Thanks to everyone who contributed advice about disabling the API, and the security implications of trying to hide certain MediaWiki features (special pages, RSS, page history, etc.). For anyone interested, the site is up at https://how-emotions-are-made.com. DanB

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Disabling the API without disabling search suggestions?
by Daniel Barrett 09 Jan '17

09 Jan '17

I notice that when the MediaWiki API is disabled (with $wgEnableAPI = false), this also disables auto-suggestions in the search box. Assuming this is intentional... what's the friendliest way to forbid general web access to the API but still allow search suggestions to appear? I considered using the hook 'ApiBeforeMain' to return false unless action=opensearch. Is that the most reliable/friendly solution? This is MediaWiki 1.28.0 with the default search engine, on an Ubuntu 16.04LTS host. Thank you very much, DanB

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How to use MediaWiki API to search for pages with a specific title and get their URL addresses
by Akinwale Habib 09 Jan '17

09 Jan '17

Hello team, Hope this meets you well? Please I am finding it impossible to generate a query to search MediaWiki API using a title and get in return url's of all matching pages. Kindly help. Thank you.

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How to get full list of references for a Wiki revision through the API?
by Bertel Teilfeldt Hansen 09 Jan '17

09 Jan '17

Hi Mediawiki-api mailing listers! I'm trying to extract the full list of references for different revisions of Wikipedia pages. This seemed like it would be easy enough with "prop=references", but I keep getting the following error: "error": { "code": "citestoragedisabled", "info": "Cite extension reference storage is not enabled.", "*": "See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php for API usage." } Even the example on the API's documentation page returns this error (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Breferences). Why does this occur? And is there no way of getting references through the API? Thanks! Best wishes, Bertel

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