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[Mediawiki-api-announce] DEPRECATION: Removal of lgtoken, cookieprefix, and sessionid response values from action=login
by Brad Jorsch (Anomie) 15 Dec '15

15 Dec '15

Long ago, the only mechanism for session management in MediaWiki was certain cookies set by the User class. When ApiLogin was written, in addition to setting these cookies as usual it also returned some of the values needed to construct these cookies on the client. Presumably this was to make things easier for clients that somehow couldn't handle the standard cookie headers. Then CentralAuth came along. Now, constructing the cookies manually would log you in to the local wiki only, without taking advantage of the SUL mechanism. Then T55032[1] happened, and clients that were using the manual-construction mechanism had to update their code because one of the cookie names changed and that wasn't part of the data being returned. And soon, we'll have SessionManager and AuthManager, which will make it possible for login to easily happen in ways that don't involve cookies at all. So it's time to eliminate the pretense that clients can manually construct the cookies instead of handing the standard HTTP cookie headers. Tentative plan is to deprecate them now and then remove them sometime during 1.28; if anyone objects to this schedule, please raise your concerns in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121527. [1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T55032 -- 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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credit and attribution re displaying Wikipedia articles and summaries in a frame
by Jim Andrews 09 Dec '15

09 Dec '15

Dear Mediawiki-api, My web+hybrid mobile app uses the Mediawiki-api to search for Wikipedia articles associated with a particular latitude/longitude. The searched coordinates are determined at run-time. In a session, the user may view several lists of article summaries and several Wikipedia articles. Article summaries of nearby articles are displayed in a list and, when one of the summaries is clicked, the associated Wikipedia article is displayed as-is in a frame that is in my app. I am not sure if this is acceptable to Wikipedia. Is it? Also, assuming it is, what sort of credit/attribution is appropriate. Thanks, Jim Andrews

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Remote login
by Rodrigo Padula 19 Nov '15

19 Nov '15

Hello guys, I'm trying to use the mediawiki API on pt.wikipedia to create a Firefox Add-on to login and read/write to wikipedia I tried many times and in many wayes to login but I'm not able to do it using my account. There are any way to login / edit / read data from wikipedia using a normal user/password from a html page + JS from a firefox add-on? Best regards Rodrigo Padula Coordenador de Projetos Grupo Wikimedia Brasileiro de Educação e Pesquisa http://www.wikimedia.org.br 21 99326-0558

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WMF Survey: Please help us understand third-party use of Wikipedia's content
by Sylvia Ventura 16 Nov '15

16 Nov '15

Dear Wikipedia data/API user, The WMF’s Engineering, Product and Partnerships teams are conducting a short survey to help us understand how organizations are pulling and using data from our projects. This information will inform future features and improvements to our data tools and APIs. We would appreciate a few minutes of your time. The link to the Survey below will take you to a Google Form - there is no need to sign up to fill out the survey. The survey should take no more than 10 minutes. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1yUrHzyLABN419RCDbzepjoRWCbaWYV4wbtbKPa95C4… Thank you for your input and feedback! Warm wishes, Sylvia PS-- Apologies for the cross posting, you might see this note on a couple of other lists. -- *Sylvia Ventura **Strategic Partnerships **Wikimedia Foundation **+1 (415) 839 6885 x6788 *

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[Mediawiki-api-announce] BREAKING CHANGE: Removal of deprecated formats dbg, txt, and yaml
by Brad Jorsch (Anomie) 12 Nov '15

12 Nov '15

Per the RfC a while back[1] and the previous announcement,[2] we're about to remove the deprecated dbg, txt, and yaml output formats from the API. This is planned for 1.27.0-wmf.8, which is currently scheduled to be deployed to WMF wikis starting December 1, 2015.[3] Users using the yaml format should be able to easily change to json, as the format is entirely identical. This removal may impact some tools. If you know of any tool using these deprecated formats, please encourage them to upgrade before December 1. [1]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Ditch_crappy_API_formats [2]: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-api-announce/2015-July/0000… [3]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/Roadmap -- 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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query pageID with mobilefrontend
by Luigi Assom 09 Nov '15

09 Nov '15

Hi, i'd like to extract paragraph of articles already formatted, so to apply an accordion on the content. Is it possible to query the ID of the page like with action=mobileview? in the same way of action=query&*pageids*=7955 ?? thank you, Luigi

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How can I get the deleted revisions of a user?
by shiyue zhang 02 Nov '15

02 Nov '15

I'm doing a research work on Wikipedia, thanks to the API, I have got most of the data I need. But now I'm trying to assess user's reputation, and thus I need to get the deleted revisions of a user. However, API says I don't have permission to view deleted revision information. I really need this data, please help me. Thanks a lot! -- Zhang Shiyue *Tel*: +86 18801167900 *E-mail*: byryuer(a)gmail.com, yuer3677(a)163.com State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology No.10 Xitucheng Road, Haidian District Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications Beijing, China.

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What means exactly the index parameter in this API search query? It's not what I guess or there is a bug.
by soulchainer＠tuta.io 08 Oct '15

08 Oct '15

Hi to all. I'm trying to do an exercise from FreeCodeCamp (http://freecodecamp.com/challenges/zipline-build-a-wikipedia-viewer) and I'm using, for now, this query (link to the API Sandbox): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=query&list=search&f… I get something like this: ... "query": { "pages": { "53307": { "pageid": 53307, "ns": 0, "title": "Lepidoptera", "index": 1 }, "31500598": { "pageid": 31500598, "ns": 0, "title": "List of Lepidoptera of Metropolitan France", "index": 2 }, "8279262": { "pageid": 8279262, "ns": 0, "title": "List of Lepidoptera that feed on Ipomoea", "index": 10 }, ... }, ..., "search": [ { "ns": 0, "title": "Lepidoptera", "snippet": "The Lepidoptera (/\u02ccl\u025bp\u0268\u02c8d\u0252pt\u0259r\u0259/ lep-i-DOP-t\u0259r-\u0259) is an order of insects that includes moths and butterflies (both called lepidopterans). 180,000 species", "titlesnippet": "Lepidoptera" }, { "ns": 0, "title": "List of Lepidoptera of Metropolitan France", "snippet": "Lepidoptera of France consist of both the butterflies and moths recorded from Metropolitan France. According to a recent estimate, there are a total of", "titlesnippet": "List of Lepidoptera of Metropolitan France" }, { "ns": 0, "title": "Macroglossinae (Lepidoptera)", "snippet": "The Macroglossinae are a sub-family of Sphingidae moths in the order Lepidoptera. The subfamily is divided into three tribes: Dilophonotini, Macroglossini", "titlesnippet": "Macroglossinae (Lepidoptera)" }, ... ] ... Well... My doubt is: what thing exactly refers to the «index» parameter in «pages» objects? At first instance, I believed it was the index of the same page in the «search» array of objects. That seems logic. But, when using that, sometimes certain indexes simply don't match (they pair «pageid» from one page with «titlesnippet», «snippet», etc from another page). So, I don't know if that «index» parameter is, in fact, about some other thing or if, instead, there is a bug/problem with the API in this matter. And, of course, I know that array index order starts at 0. And already searched about this in the wiki, and found nothing. If anybody can enlighten me about this, I will be very grateful :). Thanks in advance for reading me :). And also my apologies in advance, just in case I commited some mistake here: this is my first time writing to a mailing list.

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how to get a user's info by his id?
by shiyue zhang 04 Oct '15

04 Oct '15

Hello, I want to get a user's contributions by his id, but API can only query it by user name. I need help. Thanks.

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REST v1 API: Replacing bodyOnly flag in wikitext to HTML transform end point with body_only
by Gabriel Wicke 02 Oct '15

02 Oct '15

Hello, in an effort to standardize all post parameters in the REST v1 API to use snake_case names, we have deprecated the bodyOnly flag in the wikitext to HTML transform end point [1]. Instead, clients should use body_only, as mentioned in the documentation. We plan to remove support for the old form by the end of November. Thanks, Gabriel [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/?doc#!/Transforms/post_transform_wikit…

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