Mediawiki-api August 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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empty extract field with exintro=True
by Bertel Teilfeldt Hansen 10 Sep '19

10 Sep '19

Hi Mediawiki-api mailing listers! I'm trying to get the intro to a list of Wikipedia pages using the "extracts" property with "exintro=True". This works fine for most sites, but for a few of them the API returns an empty extract field. See for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=extracts&titles=Anthem… When looking at the page "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthem" there definitely seems to be text before the first section, so I think I should be getting something. Indeed without the "exintro" parameter, I get the expected return. Any idea why this occurs? Best, Bertel

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[Mediawiki-api-announce] Change to handling of POSTs without Content-Type on Wikimedia wikis due to PHP 7 migration
by Brad Jorsch (Anomie) 19 Aug '19

19 Aug '19

According to RFC 7231 § 3.1.1.5,[1] a POST request that does not include a Content-Type header may be interpreted by the server in one of two ways: 1. It may assume application/octet-stream. In this case, PHP and the Action API will not see the request as having any parameters, and so will probably serve the auto-generated help page.[2] 2. It may "sniff" the content type. It's likely enough to correctly guess application/x-www-form-urlencoded in this case, and therefore PHP and the Action API will see the request as having the intended parameters. It turns out that HHVM and PHP 7 (at least as used at Wikimedia) differ in their behaviors: PHP 7 seems to choose option 1, while HHVM chooses option 2. Thus, clients that have been generating POST requests to Wikimedia wikis' Action APIs without a Content-Type header will have been receiving expected results from HHVM but will now start receiving unexpected results as Wikimedia's migration to PHP 7 proceeds.[3] Affected clients should be updated to include the Content-Type header in their requests. See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230526 for some details on this issue. [1]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-3.1.1.5 [2]: As seen for example at https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php. [3]: See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176370 for progress on the migration. -- 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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Mediawiki-api August 2019