Mediawiki-api September 2022

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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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Wikimedia REST API
by Julius Hamilton 29 Sep '22

29 Sep '22

Hey, This seems to be the homepage for the "REST API": https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_REST_API but I don't see any documentation there for API parameters. For example, someone gave me this example API call: https://en.wikisource.org/api/rest_v1/page/html/Little_Essays_of_Love_and_V… But I don't see information in the first link above that you should append "page" and "html" to the wikisource API endpoint. Is there documentation for this API? Also, is this API an attempt to replace the old one or something? How does it differ from the MediaWiki Action API and the MediaWiki REST API? For example, do they fetch different kinds of information or something? Also, would the "parse" prop in the Action API be a good way to get plaintext from a Wikisource book? Thank you, Julius

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WikiSource extracts
by Julius Hamilton 22 Sep '22

22 Sep '22

Hey, It seems the following API call works for Wikipedia pages: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=extracts&exsentences=1… But not for Wikisource pages: https://en.wikisource.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=extracts&exsentences=… Is there documentation somewhere about the API not working for Wikisource or perhaps only certain actions / props working for certain sites? How can I get the full plaintext from an entire book on Wikisource with the API? Thanks, Julius

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Import dictionaries to Wiktionary
by Julius Hamilton 22 Sep '22

22 Sep '22

Hey, Does anyone think it would be possible, or has it been done before, to take some kind of downloaded dictionary data from a corpus and try to automatically upload it to Wiktionary? For example, if you had a very large dictionary over words in a language and their part of speech, could you check if the word was already present in Wiktionary and if so skip it, and otherwise create entries for all remaining words, with their part of speech? Thank you, Julius

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Cannot export preface
by Julius Hamilton 22 Sep '22

22 Sep '22

Hey, It seems relatively easy to export any section of a Wikisource book with the "download" button, but there is no way to export just the preface / title page. If you press "download" on the title page, the section name is just the book name, so you download the entire book instead of just the preface. For example: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Little_Essays_of_Love_and_Virtue Is this intentional? Is there any good way to export the plaintext of just the preface, via some command / functionality / API? Thank you, Julius

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