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New Pages
by Amir Ladsgroup 19 Dec '13

19 Dec '13

Hello, It's strange for me why new pages hasn't been implemented in API yet. We can retrieve recent changes and filter new pages (as we did in pywikibot to retrieve new pages) but if we want new pages of English Wikipedia in a certain day (or certain number) we need to retrieve ALL of edits made during that period of time, which is bad for global warming. Is there any reason not to implement new pages API functionality. If it's okay, I'll start working on it Best -- Amir

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[Mediawiki-api-announce] Handling of redirects and prop=imageinfo in flux
by Brad Jorsch (Anomie) 11 Dec '13

11 Dec '13

The behavior of prop=imageinfo with redirects, particularly redirects in foreign repos such as Commons, has always been a bit strange and confusing. Depending on the source of the file, sometimes &redirects=1 is needed in the query to get the imageinfo for a redirect and sometimes this is done regardless. Recent changes to the file repository backend code will cause prop=imageinfo to now always return the info for the target file, even when querying a redirect without specifying "&redirects=1" in the query. A new iiprop is also available, iiprop=canonicaltitle, to indicate the title associated with the file info itself. These changes will be deployed to WMF sites with 1.23wmf7, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/Roadmap for the schedule. A change is also being planned by Brian Wolff to change prop=imageinfo back in the other direction: file redirects would never be followed unless &redirects=1 is included. Feedback is welcome, particularly on edge cases that will need to be handled. -- 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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The format of log events dumps is incorrect.
by Liu Chenheng 11 Dec '13

11 Dec '13

Hi, All, I found all the xml files for log event are incorrect, i.e. missing the last </mediawiki> tag. For example: http://dumps.wikimedia.org/szlwiki/20131210/szlwiki-20131210-pages-logging.… Thanks. Chenheng Liu

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Filtering multiple anonymous users
by Manika Kar 10 Dec '13

10 Dec '13

Hello everyone, I am quite new using MediaWiki API. I want to get the revisions filtering out the revisions made by all the 'anonymous users' and 'minor edit' for an article. The parameter 'rvexcludeuser' is for filtering single user only. Do you have any clue. Best Regards, Manika Kar

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Wikipeda Page Counts for A word
by Muhidin Mohamed 10 Dec '13

10 Dec '13

Dear All, I am working on an application which requires the total wikipedia page counts that contain specific word or a pair of words. I have tried to to use advanced search to get these page counts and retrieve the the HTML page to extract that. Please see the attached snapshot is information pointed by the red arrow the actual total pages containing the name David Beckham ?. Any advice is highly appreciated. Cheers, ................................................................... Muhidin A. Mohamed, School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Birmingham, Pritchatts Road, Edgbaston, B15 2SA

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[Mediawiki-api-announce] [BREAKING CHANGE] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Update to Echo api
by Roan Kattouw 10 Dec '13

10 Dec '13

Fowarding on behalf of Benny and legoktm. This change in the Echo API was announced on wikitech-l earlier, but failed to make it to the API list. "it will be removed once ..." from the message below has now happened: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/84870/ will be merged today, and will be deployed to Wikimedia wikis in phases between December 12th and December 19th. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Benny Situ <bsitu(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 6:19 PM Subject: [Wikitech-l] Update to Echo api To: mobile-tech <mobile-tech(a)wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org, Kunal Mehta <legoktm(a)wikimedia.org> Hello, We made some change to Echo api recently. The api ApiEchoNotifications mixed both read and write actions, we have migrated the 'markasread' action to its own api module - ApiEchoMarkRead. The 'markasread' function still works in ApiEchoNotifications but it will be removed once all external api calls have been migrated to the new API. Example about how to use the new API is in here: https://git.wikimedia.org/blob/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FEcho.git/40ea204cdc… Thanks, _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ 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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Breaking API change: ApiQueryAllCampaigns prefix changed to 'uwc'
by Bene* 02 Dec '13

02 Dec '13

Hi everyone, per https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57128 I have submitted a patch that changes the api module prefix of ApiQueryAllCampaigns from 'uc' to 'uwc', as 'uc' is already used by user contributions. Please note that this change is a breaking API change and it does not implement backwards compability. Best regards, Bene

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Re: [Mediawiki-api] EXCERPT API : a fix?
by Luigi Assom 29 Nov '13

29 Nov '13

Hello, is there any minimum number of votes for fixing a bug? I am wondering which is - if there is - an average time for having a normal bug fixed, and see if I may help. How would if possible to help without installing mediawiki software? (I am a bit skilled in python, not other languages) tks!

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EXCERPT API : a fix?
by Luigi Assom 27 Nov '13

27 Nov '13

Hello everybody, I noticed a possible glitch at wikipedia api prop=excerpts In some cases, parameter *exsentences* does not return the number of sentences, but the coordinates of an article. Instead parameter *exchars* return a number of chars, and also the coordinates. E.g. please have a look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_World_College_of_the_Adriatic http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=jsonfm&action=query&pageids=126666… http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=jsonfm&action=query&pageids=126666… I would like to have just the intro with the sentences. Another example, though I think this is not an error, is with names, e.g. H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=jsonfm&action=query&pageids=175459… Here I obtained a truncated sentence, cause the dots in the name force the sentence to be truncated. Is it a fix to do? coordinates should appear only with their module, right? -- Luigi Assom Skype contact: oggigigi

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MediaWiki API to list new articles as Special:Newpages
by Kenrick 26 Nov '13

26 Nov '13

Hi, My name is Kenrick, I'm an Indonesian Wikipedia administrator trying to experiment things with MediaWiki API. I am currently doing a project to list down the new articles using MediaWiki API with these parameters: action = query list = recentchanges rctype = new rcshow = !redirect But then this method also includes those articles which current revision is a redirect page. Is there any way to perfectly list down new articles like Special:Newpages did? Thank you.

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