Mediawiki-api October 2017

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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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Re: [Mediawiki-api] [Services] REST API - Assistance Required - Content Classification and Filtering
by Michael Holloway 30 Oct '17

30 Oct '17

(+mediawiki-api) Hi Chris, I think many of us may be having trouble answering this because it's not quite clear what you're trying to do. Can you be more concrete about what categories (or what category scheme) you have in mind? Wikipedia doesn't have a single, overarching hierarchy of categories. A page may be associated with any number of categories (including zero). Some of these categories may be subcategories of other categories. Editors may freely create and remove categories, and add and remove page associations with these categories. The REST API currently doesn't expose any category information, but you can obtain category information through follow up requests to the Action API ( https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php). For example: To get all categories associated with the page "Marfa, Texas" on English Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=categories&titles=Marf… To get all pages associated with the category "Category:Cities in Presidio County, Texas": https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=categorymembers&cmtitl… Best, Michael On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 5:13 PM, Christopher Smyth <chris(a)inflighto.com> wrote: > Hello, > > We’re a small app development company that has integrated Wikipedia > content into a geo-locating iOS app. The app is working well and the Wiki > content is displaying correctly. However, we’d like to categorise the > Wikipedia content into three categories rather than just one. > > Is there a way to filter and categorise Wikipedia content that is accessed > through the REST API? We only use content that is geo-coded (ie has > latitude and longitude) information associated with each article. > > How should we go about configuring our API integration so that we can > split Wikipedia content according to its top-level categories? Is there a > way to do this? > > > > Many thanks for your assistance with this request. > > > > Regards, > > Chris Smyth > > > > > > Christopher Smyth > > Director > > Inflighto > > chris(a)inflighto.com > > +61 (0)417 298 598 <+61%20417%20298%20598> > > > > [image: Inflighto_Source_file_tm_Original Horizontal - EMAIL SIGNATURE > SMALL] <https://www.inflighto.com/> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Services mailing list > Services(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/services > >

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Need help in MediaWiki AutoLogin Implementation
by Sudhir Kumar Gupta 29 Oct '17

29 Oct '17

Hi Team, I am stuck while Implementing the AutoLogin. Any help would be great. I am using MediaWiki for my purpose. I have a website and would like to give the MediaWiki URL When a user clicks the links of MediaWiki It should redirect with MediaWiki URL with AutoLogin. Currently, I have setup in my localhost.I am using login API for this and able to create a new user in MediaWiki. So when I am using the API for login I am able to get login success response from API. but when it redirects to MediaWiki localhost links I can't see the logged in user. Below Environment I am using for development: Media wiki version: 1.26System: Ubuntu14.04Server: Apache2Language: PHP/MySQL. Looking forward to hearing back from you! Thank you,Sudhir Gupta.

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[Mediawiki-api-announce] Minor BREAKING CHANGE in handling of pltitles, tltemplates, clcategories, and imimages parameters with invalid titles
by Brad Jorsch (Anomie) 12 Oct '17

12 Oct '17

Previously, if none of the values supplied for the pltitles, tltemplates, clcategories, or imimages parameters to prop=links, prop=templates, prop=categories, or prop=images were valid titles, the parameter would be ignored and all links, templates, categories, or images would be returned. With the merge of Gerrit change 347879,[1] this situation will result in no links, templates, categories, or images being returned, as none match the invalid titles supplied. Note that submitting an empty value for one of these parameters will continue to ignore the parameter and return all links, templates, categories, or images, since this seems to be relatively common practice. [1]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/347879/ -- 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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