Mediawiki-api March 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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Pageview data is now included in the Wikimedia action APIs
by Gergo Tisza 24 Mar '17

24 Mar '17

Pageview information about Wikimedia sites, which has been available for a while through the standalone Pageviews REST API [1], is now available in the action API as well, through the prop=pageviews [2], list=mostviewed [3] and meta=siteviews [4] API modules. An example: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format= jsonfm&errorformat=plaintext&prop=pageviews&list=mostviewed&meta=siteviews& titles=Main+Page&formatversion=2&pvipdays=3&pvimlimit=3&pvisdays=3 The new API modules basically act as a proxy to the REST API, and are meant as a less flexible but more convenient alternative for people who already use the action API. [1] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/PageviewAPI [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Bpageviews [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules= query%2Bmostviewed [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Bsiteviews

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[Mediawiki-api-announce] Change in behavior for list=allpages&apfilterredir=(redirects|nonredirects)
by Brad Jorsch (Anomie) 20 Mar '17

20 Mar '17

For performance reasons,[1] when "miser mode" is enabled, as it is on WMF wikis, queries to list=allpages using apfilterredir=redirects and apfilterredir=nonredirects may begin returning fewer than the requested aplimit results before continuation. In extreme cases, zero results may be returned. This change[2] has just been made and will be deployed in the next few hours so Special:AllPages may be re-enabled. This is not classified as a breaking change since the API has reserved the right (since 2009[3] if not earlier) to do this sort of thing as it may become necessary. [1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160916 [2]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/343681/ [3]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/rSVN46845 -- 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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MediaWiki APi doubts Liquid Galaxy Project
by Guillem Barbosa 08 Mar '17

08 Mar '17

Hello, my name is Guillem and I'm a student that I'm working in Liquid Galaxy project, and now I have some questions and doubts that I would like to resolve to continue with the project. I have been working with WIkimedia API, I found some information about it and I tried diferent actions to get responses and compare. For example, in my case I want to obtain the most populated cities in the world. First of all, my query will be: " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=xml &titles=List_of_cities_proper_by_population&prop=revisions&rvprop=content " (in this page there are a list of most populated cities in the world) The response is all the Wikipedia page, and the information text is inside <rev> tag. Then, my task is to parse the text response and obtain the cities name in the list. I would like to know if ther are some posibility to obtain only the cities list, and it will be more easy to get it. Once I have the names of the cities, the next step is to obtain the coordinates for each one. Here I have two possibilities: a new query with API (" https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=xm l&titles=Shanghai&prop=revisions&rvprop=content ") I put the city name in the parameter "title", and then the response is so extended, but I get only the Infobox part to obtein the mainly information about the city. And the second option is to use bdpedia, I find this option searching and it also can be a posibility, but my doubt is: when I search " dbpedia.org/data/Tokyo <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Tokyo> " the properties and values are the same in the wikimedia page for the city? I have discoverd that I can obtain the response in json or xml format. In this way, I could get some information about the city, and search for each tag or property that is well identified. I haven't found the way to obtain more detailed some information about in this case a city (I would like to have the mainly information organizated in tags and then it will be more easy to obtain the results). So, the other option is to do the proces that I have explained, this requires more work but also will be valid. Thanks for you time your sincerely, Guillem.

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