Mediawiki-api January 2019

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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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Stats of mediawiki API
by viviana paga 31 Mar '19

31 Mar '19

Hi all, I'm working on a webservice that use the Mediawiki API and I'd like to have some stats about the traffic of my api calls to the commons.wikipedia.org domain. In particular, I'd like to have the number of GET Requests by Api-User-Agent, the number of views/edit by Api-User-Agent and the stats of the Wikipedia traffic from inbound links by a specif domain or url. Is this possible somehow? Thank you in advance, Kind regards, Viviana

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Problem with different versions
by Czuma, Marek 23 Jan '19

23 Jan '19

Hi, I work on project using API of portal based on Media Wiki. Unfortunately they changed media wiki version from 1.16 to 1.30. Earlier in endpoint list: logevents I got response with field move. Unfortunately, we don't have 'move' field in response now. I don't know what is it (one thing I know: move field had 2 fields: new_ns and new_title). I now also that now in response we can find 'params' field, which has also 2 fields: target_ns and target_title. So I have a few questions: 1) What was 'move' 2) What is 'params' - is it the same thing as 'move'? 3) Can I get documentation for another version of Media Wiki than current? Thanks,

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Do pageview metrics from commons aggregate all image views?
by J. Nathan Matias 21 Jan '19

21 Jan '19

Hi MediaWiki API mailing list! I have a question about how the pageview metrics for Wikimedia commons images accumulate– are they the total view count of that image anywhere, or just when embedded in commons? More detail: I'm working with WikiLovesAfrica on a project to calculate how many times each image has been viewed over a period of time, and I've been prototyping data collection using the following endpoint (with the mwviews.api <https://github.com/mediawiki-utilities/python-mwviews/> PageviewsClient): https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/pageviews/per-article/commons.wik… *IMAGE_FILENAME*/monthly/2014010100/2019011800 My assumption is that since commons images are hosted from the commons, the returned value will be the total view count of that image, wherever it is being embedded, including all wikis. Is that correct? If it's not the across-wiki count, is there a way to get that across-wiki count? All the best, -- J. Nathan Matias <http://natematias.com/> : Princeton University : CivilServant <http://civilservant.io> : MIT Media Lab : @natematias <http://twitter.com/natematias> : blog <http://civic.mit.edu/blog/natematias/>

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[Survey] Final Day - Help Improve MediaWiki Action API Technical Documentation
by Sarah R 14 Jan '19

14 Jan '19

Hello Everyone, Just a reminder: the MediaWiki Action API Technical Documentation Survey will close at 12:00 AM PST / 8:00 AM UTC. If you have a few moments today to share your knowledge and opinions to help improve technical documentation for the MediaWiki Action API, we would appreciate it! https://goo.gl/forms/Y5PGILb6b3awC3OJ2 *Notes about the Mediawiki Action API Survey:* *Survey Period: *December 6, 2018 - January 14, 2019 *Privacy Policy:* This survey will be conducted via a third-party service, which may subject it to additional terms. For more information on privacy and data-handling, see the survey privacy statement https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Action_API_Survey_Privacy_S… . Thanks for your participation! Kindly, Sarah R. Rodlund Technical Writer, Developer Advocacy <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy> srodlund(a)wikimedia.org

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by Alex Kho 08 Jan '19

08 Jan '19

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by Alex Kho 08 Jan '19

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