Mediawiki-api May 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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[Mediawiki-api-announce] BREAKING CHANGE: Passing too many values for a multi-valued parameter waring is becoming an error
by Brad Jorsch (Anomie) 23 May '18

23 May '18

The API has traditionally ignored values beyond the allowed limit, returning a warning for this situation since 2008(!). It's long past time for this error situation to actually raise an error, as requested in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T41936. This is happening in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/433742. It should be deployed to Wikimedia wikis with 1.32.0-wmf.6 or later, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.32/Roadmap for the schedule. Logs indicate that few clients on Wikimedia wikis are hitting the warning. You can check your client by seeing if you're receiving a "Too many values supplied for parameter" warning, or by using Special:ApiFeatureUsage for your client's user agent and looking for a "too-many-X" code. If your client is affected, the solution is to divide the values into batches of the appropriate size. Generally the limit is 50 values for clients without the apihighlimits right and 500 for clients with that right. The limits for any particular parameter are documented in the auto-generated help and are available in machine-readable format via action=paraminfo. -- 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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Fwd: notoken error
by Sahil 13 May '18

13 May '18

Hello maintainers I was trying to use curl to POST something to an api.php when I get the following error: {"error":{"code":"notoken","info":"The "token" parameter must be set.","*":"See https://wiki.octave.org/wiki/api.php for API usage. Subscribe to the mediawiki-api-announce mailing list at < https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api-announce> for notice of API deprecations and breaking changes."}} My api.php is as follows: *https://wiki.octave.org/wiki/api.php <https://wiki.octave.org/wiki/api.php>* My POSTFIELDs are as follows: username=myusrname& password=mypswd&rememberMe=1&logintoken=b86c77706c772328b4ece0e5dfde31 b25af83fcf%2B%5C&loginreturnurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwiki.octave.org%2Fwiki%2Fapi. php Note that I'm using libcurl (curl_easy_perform() and alike) for my work. Please help me where I'm going wrong. I'll be really thankful to you. Looking forward in anticipation. Thanks and Regards Sahil

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Re: [Mediawiki-api] MediaWiki API v1.19.7; edit token, request; empty response
by tom schulze 03 May '18

03 May '18

> Date: Tue, 1 May 2018 15:46:20 -0400 > From: "Brad Jorsch (Anomie)" <bjorsch(a)wikimedia.org> > To: "MediaWiki API announcements & discussion" > <mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-api] MediaWiki API v1.19.7; edit token > request; empty response > > > On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 3:38 PM, tom schulze <tom.schulze(a)posteo.de> wrote: > > >> however all I get is an empty response. >> >> I created a gist >> <https://gist.github.com/tomschulze/16fcdf8b88f285ab29365e4e558cb5f5> >> with my python code. >> > You're missing parameters in params_edit_token. Try adding 'titles' with at > least one title (doesn't have to exist) and 'intoken' with value 'edit'. > > That did it! Thanks so much!

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MediaWiki API v1.19.7; edit token request; empty response
by tom schulze 01 May '18

01 May '18

Hi everybody, I am trying to receive an edit token for the MediaWiki 1.19 API, however all I get is an empty response. I created a gist <https://gist.github.com/tomschulze/16fcdf8b88f285ab29365e4e558cb5f5> with my python code. The script is successfully logging into the wiki using my admin credentials prior to sending the request for the edit token. The WRITE_API is enabled. I read through the API docs <MediaWiki%20API%20edit%20token%20request%20empty%20response> and searched on stackoverflow. However, I could not find any answers. This is really bugging me... What am I doing wrong, why is the server not responding with the edit token? Kind regards, Tom

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