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Get wikitext of all matching pages
by Dan Jacobson 03 Feb '23

03 Feb '23

What is the best way to get wikitext of all matching pages, like I have posted here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75305175/api-call-to-get-wikimedia-comm… Thanks. P.S., this month's archives have three spam messages.

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Old Rendering or new approach
by Max Vlasov 03 Feb '23

03 Feb '23

Hi, Wikipedia now renders with new design, so my previous tool relied on obtaining the text just by downloading it and applying an XPath, have to adjust to it. I have mixed results so the questions are: - Is there a plan to support the old design with some additional parameters? Even if not forever, just for comparison purposes it would be useful for me - Is there another better way to get the text. Basically I make a guessing work by converting some of the classical tags like H1/H2 etc into pseudo headings and so on, Bullet tags into bullet chars etc. The issue with the new design for me is that floating content now at the same level as all the items of the //main[@id='content'] tag, so I will have to do some filtering to get the main content without supplemental information. Thanks Max

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Why does API return HTML in Wget?
by Julius Hamilton 02 Oct '22

02 Oct '22

Hey, This API call works when I do it in Python using requests: requests.get("https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php", params={"action":"parse","page":"Aphrodisiac","prop":"wikitext","format":"json"}) but when I do it with wget or curl like this: wget https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&page=Aphrodisiac&prop=wikit… it doesn’t return pure JSON, it returns some kind of HTML and I don’t think I even see the desired data inside. But that URL works in the browser. Why would it have this behavior? How do curl/wget differ from a browser calling this string? Thank you, Julius

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Wikimedia REST API
by Julius Hamilton 30 Sep '22

30 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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