Mediawiki-api September 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] Deprecation of the disabletidy parameter to action=parse
by Brad Jorsch (Anomie) 25 Sep '18

25 Sep '18

Now that MediaWiki has a pure-PHP tidying implementation, we are deprecating non-tidy output.[1] Further, the future rewrite of Parsoid in PHP[2] and its merge to core will have "tidying" as an integral feature. Thus, the disabletidy parameter to action=parse is being deprecated and will be removed at some point in the future. Clients should stop using the parameter and begin using tidied HTML output. This change should be deployed to Wikimedia wikis with 1.32.0-wmf.24 or later, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.32/Roadmap for a schedule. [1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198214 [2]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/parsoid-php/ -- 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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python library to pull from (non-Wikipedia) Mediawikis
by Fred Zimmerman 12 Sep '18

12 Sep '18

Hi, I am trying to adapt a program that searches and fetches pages from the main US Wikipedia to do the same against a private MediaWiki installation. The program is written using the wikipedia python library https://github.com/goldsmith/Wikipedia. Unfortunately, I cannot figure out how to get the library to "point" at other Mediawikis than the Wikipedia ones. Can anyone either a) show me how to change the target endpoint with this library or b) point me to another Python library where I can do the same and c) provide me with an URL to a publicly accessible non-Wikipedia Mediawiki site with API that I can use to test the results of a/b? Any help will be much appreciated. Fred -- Fred Zimmerman

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Page's Intro Is Empty In the API Response
by Tal Barda 07 Sep '18

07 Sep '18

Hi there! I'm trying to generate 10 random articles in Hebrew using this request: https://he.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=xml&action=query&generator=random… As you can see, I'd like to get their intro, but some of the articles' intro is empty in the API response, even though it's not empty in Wikipedia itself. I have tried to make the same request in English, and I the problem didn't happen. This is the first time I encounter this weird problem after making this request in my App for over a year... Am I missing something? Is there any new information that I should add to the request or it's just a bug? Thanks!

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Mediawiki-api September 2018