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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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[Mediawiki-api-announce] Removal of MobileFrontend MobileView API
by Jon Robson 04 Jun '22

04 Jun '22

Yesterday, the MobileView Action API was removed from all Wikimedia production servers [1]. The API was originally built to service our apps but over time that has been replaced with the Page Content Service [2]. The original service was not being maintained, and usage was very low. If you were using the MobileView API we urge you to check this API out as it is a more powerful, better cached alternative. We marked the API as hard deprecated in December 2019 [3], after which it was marked in ApiSandbox and in the response as deprecated, and support has been dwindling since then, for example, the noimages parameter was dropped in September 2020 [4]. In March 2022 we removed the remaining production blocker for removing the code: language variant support [5]. The Page content service was prreviously using the mobile view API for language variant views but has now been rewired to use the better supported core action=parse API. If you need to support language variant views and previously couldn't because of the lack of support in the page content service this should no longer be an obstacle.. Since April 2022 users of the API would have been seeing an inline banning warning them of the upcoming breakage [6]. We got no feedback from these banners so were comfortable with pushing forward. Impact on user scripts was judged as low [7] with only 14 scripts impacted so this has not been announced on tech news. If you are impacted by this change, I apologise that previous communications have failed you and I'd love to hear from you about how we could have done this deprecation better. If I can support you in any way in making sure your apps/gadgets/scripts are working again please feel free to reply to this email either privately or publicly or to raise a topic on the MobileFrontend talk page [8]. Finally, thanks to the engineers who helped make this deprecation possible. Jon [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T186627 [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Content_Service [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210808 [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T262580, [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T236733 [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T286836 [7] https://global-search.toolforge.org/?q=%5B%27%22%5C%3D%5Dmobileview&regex=1… [8] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:MobileFrontend?tableofcontent… _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api-announce mailing list -- mediawiki-api-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to mediawiki-api-announce-leave(a)lists.wikimedia.org

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Ssi
by bankingservice2020＠gmail.com 15 Nov '21

15 Nov '21

Federated identifier

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[Mediawiki-api-announce] Action API: Removal of deprecated CSRF token parameters
by Petr Pchelko 03 Jun '21

03 Jun '21

TLDR: We will soon remove some parameters that were used to obtain CSRF tokens in the MediaWiki API. This will break bots, gadgets and user scripts that are still using these parameters. A significant and long delayed change to Action API is coming. API clients (user scripts, tools, etc) need to obtain a token before making write requests to MediaWiki over Action API. Up to MediaWiki 1.24 the action=tokens[1] and ‘token’ parameter in the following API endpoints were used to obtain a token: ‘rctoken’ in action=query&list=recentchanges [2] ‘rvtoken’ in action=query&prop=revisions [3] ‘intoken’ in action=query&prop=info [4] ‘ustoken’ in action=query&list=users[5] Since MediaWiki 1.24 these module and parameters were deprecated and were emitting deprecation warnings to API clients. These parameters and endpoint will now be removed from MediaWiki 1.37 and from Wikimedia installation. To obtain CSRF tokens clients now need to use a consolidated ‘action=query&meta=tokens’ endpoint. [6] Please respond to this email if you have any concerns or questions about this change. Petr Pchelko Staff Software Engineer Platform Engineering Team at WMF [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=tokens <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=tokens> [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Brecentchanges <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Brecentchanges> [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Brevisions <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Brevisions> [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Binfo <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Binfo> [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Busers <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Busers> [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Btokens <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Btokens> _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api-announce mailing list -- mediawiki-api-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to mediawiki-api-announce-leave(a)lists.wikimedia.org

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Duplicate images in Wikimedia Commons
by Sreejith K. 21 May '21

21 May '21

Hi, I am trying to compile a list of duplicate images in Wikimedia Commons. I am iterating through the list of images using the generator=allimages API and using the continue option to get the next set. But the api gets stuck at 𪎥-seal.svg and it does not return the next set or the continue option. Here is the url I am using: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&generator=allimages&pr… Can anyone help me with this? If there is an alternative, that would be great. Thanks, Sreejith Kulamgarath.

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Correct documentation about api.php usage
by Henrik Rasmussen 15 Apr '21

15 Apr '21

My current version of mediawiki installation is 1.32.0. I am trying to use Ansible to interface update Mediawiki. There seems to be some contradictions in the API documentation. * The Help:Creating a bot - Wikipedia<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Creating_a_bot#Logging_in> says that lgname, lgpassword and lgtoken should be used in a POST, * while the MediaWiki API help<https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=login> says that user id and password should be a part of the URI: api.php?action=login&lgname=user&lgpassword=password<https://t-dokuwiki.it.ku.dk/dokuwiki/api.php?action=login&lgname=user&lgpas…>. * Also API:Main page - MediaWiki<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page> says that "tokens<https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=tokens> is Deprecated. Get tokens for data-modifying actions". >From the ansible.builtin.uri - Interacts with webservices - Ansible Documentation<https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/builtin/uri_mod…>, the way to POST, is to insert body_format: form-urlencoded body: name: your_username password: your_password enter: Sign in which I think must be - name: Logging in to wiki.server uri: url: https://wiki.server/wiki/api.php?action=query&meta=tokens&type=login&format… method: POST force_basic_auth: yes body_format: form-urlencoded body: lgname: your_username lgpassword: your_password lgtoken: Sign in but this gives me "warnings": { "main": { "*": "Unrecognized parameters: lgname, lgtoken, lgpassword." } What is the correct documentation? Your sincerily Henrik Rasmussen System administrator

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How to use API to find recent updates
by Suhas Sumukh 25 Mar '21

25 Mar '21

Hello, How can I use the Mediawiki API to find pages in the last 7 days that have been - 1. Created 2. Edited 3. Deleted Cheers, Suhas

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API:Edit How does "recreate" parameter works ?
by Nicolas Vervelle 20 Dec '20

20 Dec '20

Hi, I've posted this also on the API:Edit talk page https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API_talk:Edit#How_does_%22recreate%22_parame… Apparently, without this "recreate" parameter, an article can be recreated even if it was deleted since the retrieval of the basetimestamp. Is this an expected behavior? From the current description (*Override any errors about the page having been deleted in the meantime*) I understand that you have to set it to true if you want to be able to recreate the page, so no giving this parameter should raise an error. Can you clarify the document and behavior? Discussion on enwiki : https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:GoingBatty&diff=995218… Thanks Nico

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Wikipedia page name = dbpedia = wikimedia commons ?
by Luca Libonati 21 Nov '20

21 Nov '20

Hi all, is it true that the english wikipedia page name is always the same of dbpedia and wikimedia commons name? As an example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/*Paris = * http://dbpedia.org/page/*Paris = *https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/*Paris* Thank you. Best, Luca

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