Mediawiki-api March 2018

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MediaWiki API in specific usage
by Support Technique 18 Feb '26

18 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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Limit The Results Number of Each Page In The API Response
by Tal Barda 23 Mar '18

23 Mar '18

Hi! I know that I'm able to get the "linkshere" prop for multiple pages like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=query&prop=linkshere&… My problem is with the "lhlimit" parameter. I'd like to get 10 results for each page, but it's currently gives my 10 results for ALL of the pages, which means I have to call "lhcontinue" each time. Is it possible to get 10 results for each page when asking for multiple pages? Or should I make a different call for each article in order to achieve this? Thanks, Tal

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Random Articles Generator - Articles Order
by Tal Barda 19 Mar '18

19 Mar '18

Hi! I have a question regarding the random articles generation in the API. Let's say I'm using this URL to retrieve two random articles: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=xml&action=query&generator=random… I got an API response which contains articles A and B in this order: 1. A 2. B Is there a chance (I know it's very small, but it's just for my understanding), that I'll get the exact articles but in the opposite order? Like this: 1. B 2. A I'd like to know whether there is certain order for the random articles in the API response, or it's also random. Thanks!

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Getting the date of the first and last user contribution when all contributions are deleted revisions
by geoffreydebelie 02 Mar '18

02 Mar '18

Hi, I'm having trouble getting the first and last user contribution when all contributions are deleted revisions. Returns the last user contribution for Smile4ever: https://nl.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=usercontribs&u… How can I do the same for Jclcoosemans which only has deleted contributions? I just get an empty array back. Is there something easy I'm overlooking? https://nl.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=usercontribs&u… https://nl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?limit=50&title=Speciaal%3ABijdrage… https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciaal:VerwijderdeBijdragen/Jclcoosemans Kind regards, Geoffrey De Belie

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