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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 05 Oct '15

05 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 03 Oct '15

03 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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[Mediawiki-api-announce] Wikimedia wikis version format changing in 1.27 releases
by Legoktm 30 Sep '15

30 Sep '15

Hi, The format of the version of MediaWiki releases to Wikimedia sites is changing with the 1.27 release cycle. Old format: 1.26wmf24 New format: 1.27.0-wmf.1 This affects the "generator" property of action=query&meta=siteinfo. This is being done to bring the version numbers in compliance with the semantic versioning standard[1]. See the Phabricator ticket for more details[2]. This switch will happen with the 1.27.0-wmf.1 deployment, which started today, and will reach all sites on Thursday, October 1. Frameworks (like Pywikibot) that check the version number for compatibility checking may need to be updated for the new format. Apologies for the late notice. [1] http://semver.org/ [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T67306 -- Legoktm _______________________________________________ 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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[Mediawiki-api-announce] Tips for using bots and user scripts with Flow
by Brad Jorsch (Anomie) 29 Sep '15

29 Sep '15

Apologies to those seeing this twice, but it's important enough to announce widely. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Matthew Flaschen <mflaschen(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 4:05 PM Subject: [Mediawiki-api] Tips for using bots and user scripts with Flow To: mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org, EE List <ee(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Flow will start appearing more widely soon when we release a feature to allow users on certain wikis to opt into Flow on their user talk pages. The most common thing you'll probably want to do on a Flow page is post a new topic. For Pywikibot, that is pretty easy, since they have Flow support now. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/Flow . For on-wiki scripts, you can use MessagePoster (you don't need to know if it's a Flow board ahead of time!): --- var title = new mw.Title( 'titleString' ); var posterPromise = mw.messagePoster.factory.create( title ); posterPromise.done( function ( poster ) { poster.post( 'This is the topic title', 'This is the body of a message posted with MessagePoster' ); } ); --- Depend on 'mediawiki.messagePoster' and 'mediawiki.Title'. In some cases, you might want to check if a link is already there (e.g. to see if a warning template already included links to a particular policy). You can use prop=links for this. Flow is based on an infinitely-scrollable list of topics, each of which is its own page. So to use prop=links, you may need to loop through a set of recent enough topics (e.g. 25) then combine them into a prop=links request, e.g. https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Topic:Sojpiv245cuiw… . pywikibot has support for looping through topics. Some bots need to check the header of a page for wikitext (e.g. a bot exclusion template). This can be done with view-header, but I don't think pywikibot has support for that yet (but it can be done directly). See https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=flow&format=jsonfm&page=Talk%3AF… . A better way to do this would be templatelinks, but I'm not sure if there is an API to show templates PageX transcludes. For other questions, contact us at #wikimedia-collaboration . Or, if a certain tool needs Flow support and you're not sure where to start, you can file a bug (you can also reply here, but a ping in IRC would be appreciated). Matt Flaschen _______________________________________________ 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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