Mediawiki-api April 2018

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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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R: Mediawiki-api Digest, Vol 129, Issue 2
by viviana paga 30 Apr '18

30 Apr '18

Thanks so much Brian for your detailed answer, thanks to you I'm starting to understand something ! Viviana ________________________________ Da: Mediawiki-api <mediawiki-api-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org> per conto di mediawiki-api-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org <mediawiki-api-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Inviato: domenica 29 aprile 2018 14:00 A: mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org Oggetto: Mediawiki-api Digest, Vol 129, Issue 2 Send Mediawiki-api mailing list submissions to mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to mediawiki-api-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org You can reach the person managing the list at mediawiki-api-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Mediawiki-api digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Wikimedia API redirect 301 (viviana paga) 2. Re: Wikimedia API redirect 301 (bawolff) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2018 14:33:29 +0000 From: viviana paga <viviana.paga(a)hotmail.it> To: "mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org" <mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: [Mediawiki-api] Wikimedia API redirect 301 Message-ID: <DB6PR06MB3128D1B493601C07A5FF46C5E48C0(a)DB6PR06MB3128.eurprd06.prod.outlook.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Hi everyone, I'm developing an Ajax webservice that query Wikimedia Api Service, but I get a very strange behavior; in fact my query sometimes works perfectly and sometimes doesn't work at all (301 internal redirect) . This is the response by the server: X-Cors-Redirect-1: 301 https://commons.wikimedia.…metadata&sroffset=0&callback=? Could you help me to understand why or what I miss in my code? This is my code : $.ajaxPrefilter(function (options) { if (options.crossDomain && jQuery.support.cors) { const https = (window.location.protocol === 'http:' ? 'http:' : 'https:'); options.url = https + '//cors-anywhere.herokuapp.com/' + options.url; } if ( !options.beforeSend) { options.beforeSend = function (xhr) { xhr.setRequestHeader('Api-User-Agent', 'OpenArtImages/Beta (http://localhost:8080; viviana.paga(a)hotmail.it; Wikipedia User: Vivsss)'); xhr.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json; charset=UTF-8'); xhr.setRequestHeader('Origin', 'http://localhost:8080'); xhr.setRequestHeader('Strict-Transport-Security', 'max-age=106384710; includeSubDomains; preload'); xhr.withCredentials = true; } } }); firstRequest = $.get( 'https://commons.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?origin=*&action=query&list=search&f…:'+inputWord+incategory+'+fileh:>600& &prop=imageinfo|pageids|titles&srnamespace=6&rawcontinue=&srinfo=totalhits|suggestion&srlimit='+limit+'&iiprop=timestamp|user|url|size|sha1|mime|metadata'+offset+'&callback=?', function (response) { ///// ........ I get Data ......... ///// } Thank you so much, Viviana Paga

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Wikimedia API redirect 301
by viviana paga 28 Apr '18

28 Apr '18

Hi everyone, I'm developing an Ajax webservice that query Wikimedia Api Service, but I get a very strange behavior; in fact my query sometimes works perfectly and sometimes doesn't work at all (301 internal redirect) . This is the response by the server: X-Cors-Redirect-1: 301 https://commons.wikimedia.…metadata&sroffset=0&callback=? Could you help me to understand why or what I miss in my code? This is my code : $.ajaxPrefilter(function (options) { if (options.crossDomain && jQuery.support.cors) { const https = (window.location.protocol === 'http:' ? 'http:' : 'https:'); options.url = https + '//cors-anywhere.herokuapp.com/' + options.url; } if ( !options.beforeSend) { options.beforeSend = function (xhr) { xhr.setRequestHeader('Api-User-Agent', 'OpenArtImages/Beta (http://localhost:8080; viviana.paga(a)hotmail.it; Wikipedia User: Vivsss)'); xhr.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json; charset=UTF-8'); xhr.setRequestHeader('Origin', 'http://localhost:8080'); xhr.setRequestHeader('Strict-Transport-Security', 'max-age=106384710; includeSubDomains; preload'); xhr.withCredentials = true; } } }); firstRequest = $.get( 'https://commons.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?origin=*&action=query&list=search&f…:'+inputWord+incategory+'+fileh:>600& &prop=imageinfo|pageids|titles&srnamespace=6&rawcontinue=&srinfo=totalhits|suggestion&srlimit='+limit+'&iiprop=timestamp|user|url|size|sha1|mime|metadata'+offset+'&callback=?', function (response) { ///// ........ I get Data ......... ///// } Thank you so much, Viviana Paga

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Fwd: Wikimedia contributors survey is here: share your feedback
by Adam Baso 05 Apr '18

05 Apr '18

Cross-post. Please see below. Thanks! -Adam P.S. MWStake will be contacted under separate cover from Cindy. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Edward Galvez <egalvez(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 5:37 PM Subject: Wikimedia contributors survey is here: share your feedback Hi everyone, The Wikimedia Foundation is asking for your feedback in a survey. We want to know how well we are supporting your work on and off wiki, and how we can change or improve things in the future. The opinions you share will affect the current and future work of the Wikimedia Foundation. If you are volunteer developer, and have contributed code to any pieces of MediaWiki, gadgets, or tools, please complete the survey. It is available in various languages and will take between 20 and 40 minutes to complete. *Follow this link to the Survey:* https://wikimedia.qualtrics. com/jfe/form/SV_5ABs6WwrDHzAeLr?aud=DEV If you have already seen a similar message on Phabricator, Mediawiki.org, Discourse, or other platforms for volunteer developers, please don't take the survey twice. You can find more information about this survey on the project page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement_Insights/About_CE_> and see how your feedback helps the Wikimedia Foundation support contributors like you. This survey is hosted by a third-party service and governed by this privacy statement <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Community_Engagement_Insights_2018_Sur…>. Please visit our frequently asked questions page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement_Insights/Frequently_as…> to find more information about this survey. Feel free to email me directly with any questions you may have. Thank you! Edward Galvez -- Edward Galvez Evaluation Strategist, Surveys Learning & Evaluation Community Engagement Wikimedia Foundation

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