Mediawiki-api February 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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[ANNOUNCEMENT] REST API /page/mobile-text endpoint deprecation
by Marko Obrovac 03 May '17

03 May '17

Hello, The mobile-text endpoint~[1] was introduced in the REST API as an experiment in the early days of the Mobile-Content-Service~[2] to provide page content optimised for use in very lightweight mobile clients. The route was an experiment towards a new-generation lite app, initially targeted for low-powered, older Android devices. The idea was to use native Android UI components to show the page contents instead of in a WebView; alas, it was quickly surpassed by a new set of mobile-sections endpoints~[3]. The route is not maintained, there are no plans to use it within the WMF and according to our metrics the endpoint is not used by the community. Therefore, as part of the effort to consolidate the useful endpoints and focus on new features, we have decided to deprecate the route and remove it on May, 1st 2017. If you’re using the endpoint, please use the alternative mobile-sections endpoints~[3,4,5] instead. Should you have any questions or concerns, please reply to this e-mail or contact the Wikimedia Services Team~[6]. Cheers, Marko Obrovac, PhD Senior Services Engineer Wikimedia Foundation [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/#!/Mobile/get_page_mobile_text_title [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/RESTBase_services_for_ap… [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/#!/Mobile/get_page_mobile_sections_tit… [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/#!/Mobile/get_page_mobile_sections_lea… [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/#!/Mobile/get_page_mobile_sections_rem… [6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Services

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Question re getting citation for a particular page
by Fred Zimmerman 28 Feb '17

28 Feb '17

Hi, I would like to get the citation info for a page -- i.e. the bibliographic information about the page itself -- in a JSON, YAML, or BibTex format. How do I accomplish that? I see there is a CiteThisPage extension but I can't get the syntax right. Fred --- Install PageKicker's Algorithmic Publishing Toolkit: git clone http://github.com/fredzannarbor/pagekicker-community.git cd pagekicker-community ./simple-install.sh # build your first book: cd pagekicker-community/scripts bin/builder.sh --seedsviacli "Algorithms; Thomas Cormen; Introduction to Algorithms" --booktitle "Algorithm Demo"

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Re: [Mediawiki-api] [discovery] Some Issues on API:Opensearch
by byeh＠yahoo-inc.com 24 Feb '17

24 Feb '17

Thank you so much for your kind help and clear explanation. The use case is indeed a Chinese-language project, and the examples provided posed a nice illustration of how three kinds of possible outcomes will show in different versions. Here I would like to add another scenario in hope for a further understanding to Wikimedia's language conversion. If you search for "川普" ( Donald Trump in Traditional Chinese ) at OpenSearch API layer with redirects=resolve, [1] the first description should be "唐納·約翰·川普（英語：Donald John Trump，1946年6月14日－），第45任美國總統、著名企業家、作家和節目主持人。他生於紐約市皇后區，為川普集團前任董事長兼總裁及川普娛樂公司的創辦人，他在全世界經營房地產、賭場和酒店，但在就任美國總統後把集團交給他兩名兒子小唐納·川普及艾瑞克·川普管理。", which is Traditional Chinese; however, if the profile parameter is set to restrict,[2] the first description should become "唐纳德·约翰·特朗普（英语：Donald John Trump，1946年6月14日－），第45任美國總統、著名企業家、作家和節目主持人。他生于紐約市皇后区，为特朗普集團前任董事长兼總裁及特朗普娱乐公司的創辦人，他在全世界经营房地产、赌场和酒店，但在就任美國總統後把集團交給他兩名兒子小唐納·川普及艾瑞克·川普管理。, which is Simplified Chinese. This scenario indicates that language conversion happens not just in display time, but also at API layer. To add another interesting point, the API use cases mentioned above [1][2] can even have various outcomes in different machines. The ultimate issue now should be how such language conversions can happen at API layers and how can it be controlled? -- Ben Yeh [1] https://zh.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=opensearch&search=%E5%B7%9D%E6%99… [2] https://zh.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=opensearch&search=%E5%B7%9D%E6%99… 在 2017年1月26日星期四上午4:24:05 [台北]， Trey Jones<tjones(a)wikimedia.org> 寫道：Let's see if I can help, either directly, or indirectly via Cunningham's Law.[1] I'm reading this as you are searching a Chinese-language project (like zh.wikipedia.org), and getting results that are mixed Traditional and Simplified Chinese. If that's not the case, please elaborate! My understanding, which is admittedly incomplete, is that the text for Chinese-language projects is stored however it was entered (Traditional or Simplified), and is converted at display time. If you look at the main page of zh.wikipedia.org[2] today without being logged in (or in a private browsing window), the featured article link has this text: "2007年欧洲冠军联赛決賽", which uses both 赛 and 賽, with 赛 being the Simplified version of Traditional 賽.[3] If you request the zh-cn version of the page,[4] the text is "2007年欧洲冠军联赛决赛", and both are Simplified "赛". If you request the zh-tw version of the page[5], the text is "2007年歐洲冠軍聯賽決賽", and both are Traditional "賽". So, I believe that explains why you are seeing mixed Traditional and Simplified results. What to do about it? I can't get the Opensearch API to do the conversion in place, but there is a separate API that does the conversion: Parsing wikitext.[6] Unfortunately, I can only get the API to do the conversion (which is based on the uselang parameter) when I submit the text as wikitext,[7][8] which adds some additional tags and a long comment to the results. \u-formatted input doesn't work, and I can't get the conversion to work for json input (i.e., the result of the Opensearch call). That doesn't mean it isn't possible, just that I haven't figured it out. I hope that points you in the right direction, and maybe inspires someone who knows this stuff better than me to help out. —Trey [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham's_Law[2] https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%E9%A6%96%E9%A1%B5[3] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%B5%9B[4] https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-cn/Wikipedia:%E9%A6%96%E9%A1%B5[5] https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/Wikipedia:%E9%A6%96%E9%A1%B5[6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Parsing_wikitext[7] https://zh.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&format=json&prop=text&usela… [8] https://zh.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&format=json&prop=text&usela… Trey Jones Software Engineer, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 11:22 AM, Adam Baso <abaso(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: +discovery list On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 10:15 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <bjorsch(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 2:09 AM, <byeh(a)yahoo-inc.com> wrote: While I was developing some services based on API:Opensearch, I found that the response of the same url request can be either Simplified Chinese or Traditional Chinese. To be more specific, I would love to know how can I determine the response language form from API layer ( Or other factors that may have impact ) ? Since the document of API:Opensearch doesn't seem to take language into consideration, The OpenSearch Suggestions extension specification[1] does not allow for returning additional metadata such as language with the response. You may want to look at the prefixsearch query module[2] instead which allows for returning the same results in a different format, although I don't know the details of how language variants are handled in the search output. [1]: http://www.opensearch.org/Spec ifications/OpenSearch/Extensio ns/Suggestions/1.1 [2]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki /API:Prefixsearch -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Senior Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ______________________________ _________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia. org https://lists.wikimedia.org/ma ilman/listinfo/mediawiki-api ______________________________ _________________ discovery mailing list discovery(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/ mailman/listinfo/discovery

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Invalid Token
by Michael 20 Feb '17

20 Feb '17

Sorry, if it turns out as a stupid mistake, but I am at the end of my own knowledge to solve this issue on my MediaWiki 1.28 installation: I am using a python3 script to 1) get the token, and 2) login via 'clientlogin', but I always receive the "error": { "code": "badtoken", "info": "Invalid token", The taken is coming from 'action': 'query', 'meta': 'tokens', 'type': 'login', and I strip the last '\'. This is my submission for Login: Type: <class 'urllib.request.Request'> Contents: {'_full_url': 'https://wiki.xxxxat.com/api.php', 'unredirected_hdrs': {}, '_tunnel_host': None, 'fragment': None, '_data': b'password=Lxxxxxxxx7&action=clientlogin&rememberMe=1&username=Admin&returnu rl=https%3A%2F%2Fwiki.xxxxat.com%2F&logintoken=8f2d58f9cc8336543c7f67cf8a592 6d058a95ede%2B%5C&requestid=byMichael', 'origin_req_host': 'wiki.xxxxat.com', 'selector': '/api.php', 'headers': {'Content-type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'}, 'type': 'https', 'unverifiable': False, 'host': 'wiki.xxxxat.com'} Following the same procedure via ApiSandbox is working fine. Thank you for your help!

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[Mediawiki-api-announce] BREAKING CHANGE: Passwords and other sensitive fields for authentication must be in the POST body
by Brad Jorsch (Anomie) 15 Feb '17

15 Feb '17

As was previously announced, passing the lgpassword or lgtoken parameters to action=login in the query string rather than the POST body will begin to return an error starting with 1.29.0-wmf.13. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.29/Roadmap for the deployment schedule. On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 2:44 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <bjorsch(a)wikimedia.org > wrote: > Over the past 30 days, there has been exactly one hit to > action=clientlogin with sensitive data in the query string, and none to > action=createaccount, action=linkaccount, and action=changeauthenticationdata. > Beginning in 1.29.0-wmf.1 (to be deployed this week) these actions will now > begin throwing errors if sensitive fields are included in the query string. > > Over the past 30 days, logins have been attempted via action=login for 28 > different user names[1] with sensitive data (lgpassword or lgtoken) in the > query string. This will continue to work for now; my current plan is to > turn that warning into an error on February 15, 2017. > > > [1]: I can't post the list publicly at this time. If you want to know if > you're one of the 28, put your user agent into https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Special:ApiFeatureUsage and look for "login-params-in-query-string". > > > On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 3:24 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) < > bjorsch(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> For improved safety, passwords and other sensitive fields for >> authentication should not be included in the request URI during a POST. >> Instead, they should be in the POST body where they are less likely to be >> included in log files. With the merge of Gerrit change 305545,[1] the API >> will now produce a warning if such fields are detected in the URI. This >> should be deployed to WMF wikis with 1.28.0-wmf.16, see >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.28/Roadmap for the schedule. >> >> This affects the following modules and fields: >> * action=login: 'lgpassword' >> * action=clientlogin, action=createaccount, action=linkaccount, and >> action=changeauthenticationdata: Any fields reported as "sensitive" by >> action=query&meta=authmanagerinfo or by UI or REDIRECT responses. >> Currently, this affects the 'password' and 'retype' fields. >> >> The 'lgtoken' field for action=login will now also issue a warning if >> placed in the request URI. The error code for other tokens being in the >> request URI has changed from 'mustposttoken' to 'mustpostparams'. >> >> To check if your client's user agent is detected making such submissions, >> you can also use ApiFeatureUsage[2] and look for >> '<action>-params-in-query-string' once 1.28.0-wmf.16 is rolled out to >> wikis your client is logging in to. >> >> It is planned that these warnings will be changed to errors during 1.29. >> Let's avoid having a repeat of T142155,[3] update your code ASAP instead of >> waiting until it breaks. Thanks. >> >> [1]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/305545/ >> [2]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiFeatureUsage >> [3]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142155 >> >> -- >> Brad Jorsch (Anomie) >> Senior Software Engineer >> Wikimedia Foundation >> > > > > -- > Brad Jorsch (Anomie) > Senior Software Engineer > Wikimedia Foundation > -- 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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Developer Wishlist Survey: Vote for Proposals
by Srishti Sethi 14 Feb '17

14 Feb '17

Hello, Almost two weeks ago, the Technical Collaboration team invited proposals for the first edition of the Developer Wishlist survey! We collected around 77 proposals that were marked as suitable for the developer wishlist and met the defined scope and criteria <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Wishlist#Scope>. These proposals fall into the following nine categories: Frontend, Backend, Code Contribution (Process, Guidelines), Extensions, Technical Debt, Developer Environment, Documentation, Tools (Phabricator, Gerrit) and Community Engagement. Voting phase starts now and will run until *February 14th, 23:59 UTC*. Click here on a category and show support for the proposals you care for most <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Wishlist>. Use the 'Vote' and 'Endorse' buttons next to a proposal to do so. *What happens next?*Proposals that will gather most votes will be included in the final results which will be published on *Wednesday, February 15th*. These proposals will also be considered in the Wikimedia Foundation’s annual plan FY 2017-18. Cheers, Srishti -- Srishti Sethi Developer Advocate Technical Collaboration team Wikimedia Foundation https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:SSethi_(WMF)

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