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How can I get API results within alphabetical parameters?
by Andrew Chapman 26 Feb '15

26 Feb '15

I'm using the Wikipedia API to retrieve links within pages, and backlinks to those pages. Is there any way to filter results of prop=links, prop=linkshere or list=backlinks to retrieve only results that e.g. begin with a certain letter? Something like from=La&to=Lz would be nice - but it doesn't appear to be available. At the moment the solution I have is to get ALL the links, using the continuation parameters, then just pull out those that match my criteria. But this can sometimes require numerous API calls, and seems a bit inelegant. Have I missed any other options? Thanks; Andrew

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[Mediawiki-api-announce] BREAKING CHANGE: Title-part parameters will no longer silently break on the '#' character
by Brad Jorsch (Anomie) 20 Feb '15

20 Feb '15

Bug T38358[1] points out that using a '#' character in input passed to ApiQueryBase::titlePartToKey() will silently truncate at the character before the '#', often generating incorrect results. With the merge of Gerrit change 191889,[2] passing a '#' into this method will now return an invalidtitle error, just as already happens when a title-part containing invalid characters such as '<' or '>' is passed in. The affected parameters include: * list=allpages apto, apfrom, and apprefix * list=alldeletedrevisions adrto, adrfrom, and adrprefix * list=deletedrevs drto, drfrom, and drprefix * list=filearchive fato, fafrom, and faprefix * list=allimages aito, aifrom, and aiprefix * list=alllinks alto, alfrom, and alprefix * list=alltransclusions atto, atfrom, and atprefix * list=allfileusages afto, affrom, and afprefix * list=allredirects arto, arfrom, and arprefix * list=allcategories acto, acfrom, and acprefix This should be deployed to WMF wikis with 1.25wmf19, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/Roadmap for the schedule. [1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T38358 [2]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/191889/ -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) 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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MediaWiki API in specific usage
by Support Technique 15 Feb '15

15 Feb '15

Hello, I'm developing a Joomla 3! plugin based on mediawiki API. The goal is importing all datas (titles and description or definitions) from Wiki database to a Joomla website database. Cause the Joomla! website will be finally used as a dictionnary. Now can you tell me how to proceed, please? Unfortunately, the available tutorials on MediaWiki are not so clear on this usage situation. Thanks for answer me as soon as you can! -- Logo Internis Group <http://www.internis-group.com/> *Modeste EKAMBI* Senior Software Engineer - Internis Group Agence experte des projets web et IT - Développement sur mesure - Développement web et mobile, d'applications et sites internet Skype: internis.group Téléphone: 699-789-772 / 679-998-516 Mail: support(a)internis-group.com Blog: http://blog.internis-group.com Site: http://www.internis-group.com <http://internis-group.com>

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Changing redirect resolution behavior of OpenSearch?
by Brion Vibber 13 Feb '15

13 Feb '15

I've got a changeset in code review to make the default redirect resolution behavior of action=opensearch consistent between JSON and XML-mode requests. Bug: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T19142 Patch: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/190290 Originally the JSON version did not resolve redirects as it was easier to implement that way, while the XML implementation was separately written and did resolution in order to improve display of content snippets. Content snippets are now included in JSON as well as XML since the implementations were merged, and in general it seems to be better behavior to be consistent across data formats for the same requests. The original behavior can be obtained by supplying an explicit 'redirects=return' parameter to the API request. Are there any compatibility worries here? -- brion

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get number of revisions
by Stefan Kasberger 05 Feb '15

05 Feb '15

Hello, I try to get the number of revisions back for some articles, but I don't find any query where this will be offered over the API. only found this answer at stackoverflow. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7136343/wikipedia-api-how-to-get-the-num… is this still unsolved? would save me lot of time and I think this is one of the most important metadata about an article. I will use it to download just articles between 500 and 5000 revisions, cause lower is useless for our research and more is too expensive to compute. thanks for your answer. cheers, Stefan -- *Stefan Kasberger* *E* mail(a)stefankasberger.at *W* www.openscienceASAP.org

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[Mediawiki-api-announce] BREAKING CHANGE: list=search redirecttitle is no longer an object as of 1.25wmf16
by Brad Jorsch (Anomie) 03 Feb '15

03 Feb '15

It was pointed out in T88397[1] that a list=search query was populating the 'redirecttitle' output property as an object containing the internal members of a MediaWiki Title object, where a string containing the prefixed title is more likely what was intended. Any clients relying on this output property should be updated to deal with the corrected value. This will be deployed to WMF wikis with 1.25wmf16, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/Roadmap for the schedule. [1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88397 -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) 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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How to filter values?
by Geoffrey De Belie 02 Feb '15

02 Feb '15

Hi This URL contains the data I need http://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=namesp… However, I don't want first-letter or case to be outputted. Can I select the properties I want? I tried nsprop, no luck, while prop also does not work. Kind regards, Geoffrey De Belie

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[x-posting] Raising attention for the API bug
by Amir Ladsgroup 01 Feb '15

01 Feb '15

Hello, This bug <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87645> is more serious than it seems and it's blocked a huge part of our actions (e.g. creating pages outside of main namespace via API) Please someone take a look at this -- Amir

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Description of wiki page (everything before the References section of wiki page)
by practikalmind 26 Jan '15

26 Jan '15

Hi, Is there a way to get the description of the wiki page with everything "BEFORE" the "References" section? For example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs I would need in the wiki page "BEFORE" the below "References" section. References 1. "The Walt Disney Company and Affiliated Companies - Board of Directors". The Walt Disney Company. Retrieved October 2, 2009. 2. "Steve Jobs: Died Buddhist, Raised Lutheran". Archived from the original on July 28, 2012. 3. Misa, T. J. (2011). "Steven P. Jobs (1955-2011)". Science 334 (6058): 919-919. doi:10.1126/science.1216019. PMID 22096183. edit 4. O'Reilly, T. (2011). "Steve Jobs (1955-2011)". Nature 479 (7371): 42. doi:10.1038/479042a. PMID 22051667. edit 5. Caulfield, Brian. "Steve Jobs' Death Certificate Reveals His Final Resting Place". Forbes Magazine. Archived from the original on September 16, 2012. Retrieved September 2, 2012. His occupation was listed as 'entrepreneur.' 6. | 7. | 8. | 9. | Thanks

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Description (1st sentence of wiki page)
by practikalmind 23 Jan '15

23 Jan '15

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