Mediawiki-api July 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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Updating a section of a page
by santosh satapathy 02 Aug '17

02 Aug '17

Hi there, I am new to the media wiki. Any help on this below query is highly appreciated. Query: I have created a media wiki server and update a section of one particular page (a table of values) dynamically. I am planning to do this using rest APIs referring to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Tutorial What is the flow I should follow to edit a page? Should I use APIs to login first and then get the csrf token using another rest API and then finally update the page. What is the exact sequence?? Thanks in advance

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Question about page contributors API
by Bowen Yu 31 Jul '17

31 Jul '17

Hi, I am not sure if anyone met this problem before. I am calling the contributors API (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format= json&prop=contributors& ... ) with a list of titles as the input (less than 50), and then I continue until nothing more is available. However, in the responses I gather for that single request, I am not getting the same number of distinguished pages that I input. I cannot really figure out why. Could somebody provide some suggestion? Thanks! Sincerely, Bowen

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Wikipedia api - parsing wiki text by disabling preview mode
by Kenan Erdogan 26 Jul '17

26 Jul '17

Hi, I am using Wikipedia api <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Parsing_wikitext#parse> to convert wiki text into html. Everything works fine except that in the output there are also warning messages which are normally seen in preview mode. To exclude them, I set 'preview' parameter to False in the query but warning messages are still in the html output. Here is an exmaple query: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&format=json&preview=False&t… Is there any idea how to get html output without preview warning messages. Thanks a lot, Kenan -- GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Computational Social Science (CSS) Team Social Analytics and Services M.Sc. Kenan Erdogan Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8, 50667 Cologne, Germany Tel: + 49 (0) 221-47694-211

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Issuing 2 API requests in same session?
by Daniel Barrett 14 Jul '17

14 Jul '17

I'm trying to log into a MediaWiki 1.28 site using the API and a standalone PHP script, but it keeps failing with the error "invalid token." I can successfully retrieve a login token: $tokenRequest = array( 'action' => 'query', 'format' => 'json', 'meta' => 'tokens', 'type' => 'login', ); But when I issue my "action=clientlogin" request, I always get the error "code=badtoken, info = invalid token": $loginRequest = array( 'action' => 'clientlogin', 'format' => 'json', 'logintoken' => $token, 'loginreturnurl' => 'https://example.com/', 'username' => $username, 'password' => $password, 'domain' => 'mydomain', 'rememberMe' => 1, ); I suspect the problem is that the two requests are not explicitly being made in the same session. That is, I'm not adding the header "Cookie: <session cookie>" to my second HTTP POST. How do I retrieve the session cookie after issuing my meta=tokens request so I can hand it to the client login request? In earlier versions of MediaWiki, I could get the cookie information from an API call, "action=login". This has been deprecated but I haven't seen any examples of the new way to do it, just generic instructions like "Clients should handle cookies to properly manage session state." I'm not operating inside the MediaWiki codebase with its WebRequest, SessionManager, etc. classes -- this is a standalone script. Thank you, DanB

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