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HTML versions of page contents?
by Phil Gyford 01 Nov '07

01 Nov '07

Hi, I want to get the contents of some specific Wikipedia pages to display on different, non-wiki, site[1]. I can see how to retrieve the body of a page marked up in wiki format, but is there any way to get it already rendered as HTML? I've found two wiki markup -> HTML renderers[2][3], but both have significant problems with some aspects of Wikipedia's tags. Many thanks, Phil [1] http://www.pepysdiary.com/ [2] http://pear.php.net/package/Text_Wiki_Mediawiki [3] http://code.blitzaffe.com/pages/phpclasses/files/wiki_parser_52-13 -- http://www.gyford.com/

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Checking out a branch of API
by Eddie Roger 30 Oct '07

30 Oct '07

I've been lurking on the mailing list for a while, and I'd like to contribute to API development. I'm not new to PHP programming or MediaWiki, but I am new to SVN, and I'm having trouble checking out the source to start playing with it. I apologize greatly for such a question on the list, but is there a doc about accessing MediaWiki's svn server I can scan somewhere? Or, just the address to access the server? I've used ViewVC to look at the branches and trunk, but when I copy and paste that address to TortoiseSVN, I get the following error. Thanks for the help, and I look forward to contributing! Error: PROPFIND of '/mediawiki/branches/ApiEdit_Vodafone': 405 Method Not Allowed (http://svn.wikimedia.org) Eddie

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what's in a category
by Timothy Hunt 30 Oct '07

30 Oct '07

I know that I can find what categories a page is in using api.php? action=query&titles=Pagename&prop=categories but how do I get all the pages that have are members of a particular category? I'm guessing the format would be something like api.php?action=query&titles=Category:Foo&property=SOMEPROPERTY, assuming it's implemented. Thanks, Timothy

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PyMW-API - Python interface to MediaWiki API?
by Brianna Laugher 28 Oct '07

28 Oct '07

Hi, I am thinking about starting to write a standard Python wrapper-interface thingy to the MediaWiki API. I thought I would write here first and see what people think and if anyone knows of any similar work done already (perhaps in pywikipediabot?). The only relevant thing I found so far is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Yurik/Query_API/User_Manual#Python The reason I am thinking of doing it because whenever I do serious API queries (like checking a day's worth of logs) I always use Python to manipulate whatever I get back, and also because the API generally only lets you get 500 items and I haven't found a good way to loop through the log items by timestamp, if you know what I mean. And so each time I do a query I just rewrite basically the same thing and I'm sick of it, and if I'm doing this maybe other people are too. So, thoughts? cheers, Brianna -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/

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Re: [Mediawiki-api] Login parms in query URL doesn't seem to work
by Roan Kattouw 28 Oct '07

28 Oct '07

WebSnail wrote: > > I'm trying to use the API in line with phpBB2 in the login process so that > when the phpBB2 user logs in they automatically get logged into the wiki > as well. Overall it seems to be working ok except for one small snag... > > It doesn't remember the login and whilst the echo output indicates that > login was successful, as soon as I go to the wiki I find the old > "Login/create account" link all over again. > The PHPBB extension can do this. See also http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PHPBB/Users_Integration Roan Kattouw -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Login-parms-in-query-URL-doesn%27t-seem-to-work-tf467… Sent from the WikiMedia API mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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categorymembers as both generator and list
by Magnus Manske 24 Oct '07

24 Oct '07

Hi, I want use the api to list all pages that are in any of the categories which are in Category:Category_redirects on commons. So I tried http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&generator=categorymembe… but apparently it's not that easy... IMHO "list=categorymembers" should not insist on "cmcategory", but rather try to fall back to the generator list. Additionally, the 500 limit could be imposed on the actual output; as the generator is internal, it could have 5000 or unlimited (depending on context). Cheers, Magnus

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Re: [Mediawiki-api] Login parms in query URL doesn't seem to work
by sggraham＠nc.rr.com 22 Oct '07

22 Oct '07

Ok thanks Roan. I thought so. Perhaps a note should be made on the Wiki documenting the API that the login parms on the query don't work. I tried messing with the cookies using the php_http extension, and I eventually gave up when this error appeared: HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:02:05 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Unix) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.3 OpenSSL/0.9.8d PHP/5.2.0 mod_apreq2-20051231/2.5.7 mod_perl/2.0.2 Perl/v5.8.7 X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.0 Content-Length: 79 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html register_globals security paranoia: trying to overwrite superglobals, aborting. How the heck did this happen? Can someone write a simple sample PHP app that logs in issues query and echos the results? I thought this would be simple but evidently not. Is there some additional setting/config I need to make on the wiki itself in order to allow a php program to issue a query just like a human using a browser? sgg ---- Roan Kattouw <roan.kattouw(a)home.nl> wrote: > sggraham(a)nc.rr.com schreef: > > So, am I misusing the login parms somehow on the query url? Are the login parms not working? Should I use cookie manipulation instead? > > > Yes, you should use cookies. You'll get a cookie sent to you on > action=login, which you should send back at every next request. In PHP, > Snoopy [1] makes handling cookies easier. Login parameters the way you > tried to use them currently don't work. Maybe they will in the future, > who knows. > > Catrope > > [1] http://snoopy.sourceforge.net/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-api mailing list > Mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org > http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api

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Missing API function : Random page(s)
by Magnus Manske 17 Oct '07

17 Oct '07

'nuff said :-) Magnus

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Breaking change (recentchanges)
by Daniel Cannon 15 Oct '07

15 Oct '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Somehow I forgot to notify the list of this; however, there has recently been a breaking change in the recentchanges query. As of revision 26615[1], instead of specifying, for instance, type="0" for each entry in the list, it will specify type="edit". Other variants include "move," "log," "new," and "move over redirect." This change was implemented in response to bug 11632[2]. This change is not yet live on Wikimedia wikis, but will be soon. Please update any code using this query accordingly, and if there are any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me or the list. Thanks. [1]http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki?view=rev&revision=26615 [2]http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11632 - -- Daniel Cannon (AmiDaniel) http://amidaniel.com cannon.danielc(a)gmail.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHE8trFRAT5u/mSaMRAn7CAJ0X/D+qwoMUcDwlG1UdcayQ3ohwMQCdFRHp lXw/V8xtrbU2/ndZ/zx0Ud4= =mgJ8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Small bug in categorymembers?
by Ian Cabell 11 Oct '07

11 Oct '07

Does "categorymembers" work different from the others? When I try http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=xmlfm&action=query&list=embeddedin… it returns exactly the same results as http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=xmlfm&action=query&list=embeddedin… "categorymembers" doesn't seem to be the same - http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=xmlfm&action=query&list=categoryme… returns nothing, while http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=xmlfm&action=query&list=categoryme… returns the list of articles. --SatyrTN

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