Mediawiki-api April 2020

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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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Question about using Swimranking API
by Vladimir Dabic 27 Apr '20

27 Apr '20

Hello, I am a web developer and I was tasked with creating new mobile app that would allow people to compare different swimmers and their times in various swimming styles. My question is: 1. Can I use your API freely or is it a paid service? 2. Can I store data that your API provides in my database? Thank you

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[Mediawiki-api-announce] Change to action=login response when login fails due to session loss
by Brad Jorsch (Anomie) 08 Apr '20

08 Apr '20

Since April 2010,[1] when no lgtoken is passed to the Action API action=login it will return a "NeedToken" response including the token to use. While this method of fetching the login token was deprecated in January 2016,[2] it is still present for the benefit of clients that have not yet been updated and is not (yet) being removed. The NeedToken response was also being returned when an lgtoken was supplied but could not be validated due to session loss. While this made sense back in 2010 when the NeedToken response was the only way to fetch the login token, these days it is mainly confusing[3] and a way for clients with broken cookie handling to wind up in a loop. With the merge of Gerrit change 586448,[4] the API will no longer return NeedToken when lgtoken was supplied. If the token cannot be validated due to session loss, a "Failed" response will be returned with a message referring to session loss as the problem. This change should be deployed to Wikimedia sites with 1.35.0-wmf.28 or later, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap for a schedule. Note that the change HAS NOT been deployed to Wikimedia sites as of the time of this email. If your client's ability to log in broke on 6 April 2020, the cause is most likely an unrelated change to Wikimedia's infrastructure that caused some HTTP headers to be output with HTTP/2 standard casing, i.e. "set-cookie" rather than the traditional "Set-Cookie". See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T249680 for details and further discussion of that situation. [1]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/64677 [2]: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-api-announce/2016-January/0… [3]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T249526 [4]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/586448 -- 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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