Mediawiki-api January 2020

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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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So <ns>0</ns> is only regular page right?
by Furkan Gözükara 03 Feb '20

03 Feb '20

If <ns> is other than 0, it means it is some other special page like category talk etc right? Are there any documentation for this?

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what is the difference between these 2 database dumps?
by Furkan Gözükara 01 Feb '20

01 Feb '20

1 : enwiktionary-20200120-pages-articles-multistream.xml.bz2 854.6 MB 2 : enwiktionary-20200120-pages-meta-current.xml.bz2 890.8 MB so number 2 covers 1 and additional files?

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How to get parsed results of templates and modules
by Furkan Gözükara 31 Jan '20

31 Jan '20

Hello. I would like to learn if this possible For example lets say the article gelmek here the link https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gelmek On that page it has conjugations When we click edit, we see that it has the following template/module {{tr-conj|gel|e|gelir|i|d}} So can i parse this? Like i provide the page id and this template to get the parsed results via api? Or any other way? e.g. https://en.wiktionary.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=gelmek&parseTemplat…

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edition performance
by wp1080397-lsrs wp1080397-lsrs 29 Jan '20

29 Jan '20

Dear friends, We have been working for some months in a wikidata project, and we have found an issue with edition performance, I began to work with wikidata java api, and when I tried to increase the edition speed the java system held editions, and inserted delays, which reduced edition output as well. I chose the option to edit with pywikibot, but my experience was that this reduced more the edition. At the end we use the procedure indicated here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Edit#Example With multithreading, and we reach a maximum of 10,6 edition per second. my questions is if there is some experience when has been possible to have a higher speed?. Currently we need to write 1.500.000 items, and we would require 5 working days for such a task. Best regards Luis Ramos Senior Java Developer (Semantic Web Developer) PST.AG Jena, Germany.

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Request to block ActionApi-Client
by Frank Wunderlich 29 Jan '20

29 Jan '20

Hello, in 2016 I wrote a small Android app, that is making use of the Wikipedia ActionApi to search for articles at the current location of a user. Due to legal considerations I am currently trying to take down the app. It’s not available any more in the Google PlayStore, but there are still installations out there. That’s why I want to make these installations unusable by deactivating all backend services, that the app is using. Unfortunately the app is (partially) directly communicating with wikipedia servers and not via a proxy under my control. The app sends a special User-Agent HTTP header with every request to identify itself: tagorama/v1.0.0.283-release (http://tagorama.rocks/ <http://tagorama.rocks/>; info(a)tagorama.rocks <mailto:info@tagorama.rocks>) Is there any way for you to block requests from this app? Who would I contact? Thanks for your help, Frank Wunderlich

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by Trixie Campbell 16 Jan '20

16 Jan '20

Thankyou

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accessing api of private wiki
by thomas.topway.it＠mail.com 15 Jan '20

15 Jan '20

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