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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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Tips for using bots and user scripts with Flow
by Matthew Flaschen 29 Sep '15

29 Sep '15

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

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How to expand only {{subst:}} and {{safesubst:}}
by Nicolas Vervelle 20 Sep '15

20 Sep '15

Hi, Is it possible through the API to give it some wikitext and get in return the same wikitext where {{subst:}} and {{safesubst:}} have been replaced, as they would be when saving an edit ? In WPCleaner <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WPCleaner>, I want to be able to insert things like current date, so I'm currently inserting things like {{safesubst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} but as they don't work inside <ref> tags, I'd prefer to expand then myself rather than relying on the action=edit to do it. Nico

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Re: [Mediawiki-api] How to expand only {{subst:}} and {{safesubst:}}
by billinghurst 19 Sep '15

19 Sep '15

Why not just make <ref> a tag ... {{subst:#tag:ref|{{safesubst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}}}} OR {{#tag:ref|{{safesubst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}}}} Regards, Billinghurst 1. How to expand only {{subst:}} and {{safesubst:}} > (Nicolas Vervelle) > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Nicolas Vervelle <nvervelle(a)gmail.com> > To: List - MediawikiAPI <mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Cc: > Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 13:09:51 +0200 > Subject: [Mediawiki-api] How to expand only {{subst:}} and {{safesubst:}} > Hi, > > Is it possible through the API to give it some wikitext and get in return > the same wikitext where {{subst:}} and {{safesubst:}} have been replaced, > as they would be when saving an edit ? > > In WPCleaner <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WPCleaner>, I want > to be able to insert things like current date, so I'm currently inserting > things like {{safesubst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} but as they don't work inside > <ref> tags, I'd prefer to expand then myself rather than relying on the > action=edit to do it. > > Nico > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-api mailing list > Mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api >

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Query: Search API
by Chen Sung 02 Sep '15

02 Sep '15

Hi, I need to get a list of title, timestamp and wikipedia link of the items after doing a search. I tried using the “Search” API but it returns only title and timestamp not the wikipedia link. Can you please me in figuring out if a single API call will be enough for it or do I need to make calls to different API’s ? Please pardon me if I am missing something. Regards, Chen

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Office Hour about mediawiki.org API pages Tuesday Sept 1
by S Page 29 Aug '15

29 Aug '15

Tuesday 2015-09-01T18:00 UTC [1] (11am San Francisco time) we will be having an IRC office hour [2] about the mw.org API: namespace. * As Wikimedia adds other APIs such as Wikidata Query Service and RESTBase, the structure and navigation needs to evolve. * Also, as you may know we are writing pages to encourage third-party developers to use Wikimedia data and APIs, and eventually want this "Web APIs hub" [3] to become the "front door" rather than API:Main_page. ** and presented with a different appearance to new developers [4] If you have thoughts, opinions, or needs from the API pages, I hope you can attend. The last bullet point is challenging and controversial, so it helps to share ideas and approaches. The Phab task https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110108 links to related tasks. It's also a Phab event https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E50 and on the internal WMF Engineering calendar. See you in irc:freenode.net#wikimedia-office [1] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=18&min=00&sec=0&d… [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Web_APIs_hub [4] http://devhub.wmflabs.org/wiki/API:Web_APIs_hub -- =S Page WMF Tech writer, and Quim Gil Engineering Community manager

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get wiki content from api
by ArtGiray . 28 Aug '15

28 Aug '15

What is the difference of this two queries? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car?action=raw https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Car&action=raw (i used first one before, then use second, but sometimes it's not response...) are any of these queries doing extra processing on server side ? which one i should use for more speed on my wikibot? (or any different query suggestion?)

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[Mediawiki-api-announce] Wikidata API breaking changes
by Addshore 27 Aug '15

27 Aug '15

Hi all! We have some breaking API changes that will soon be deployed to wikidata.org. The deployment date should be: 9th September 2015 (just under 2 weeks) The change making the breaks an be found at: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/227686/ The breaking changes are: - XML output aliases are now grouped by language - XML output may no longer give elements when they are empty - XML any claim, qualifier, reference or snak elements that had an '_idx' element will no longer have it - ALL output may now give empty elements, ie. labels when an entity has none If you want to see a wikipage explaining these changes take a look at: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Addshore/API_Break_September_2015 If you have any questions regarding these breaking changes please ask! Addshore _______________________________________________ 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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