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About "move/move" and "move/move_redir"
by Liu Chenheng 24 Nov '13

24 Nov '13

Hi, All, There are 2 move operations in recent change: "move/move" and "move/move_redir". And in "move/move" changes, there may be tag suppressedredirect="" which means move the page without creating the redirect ( http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Moving_a_page). Here comes my question: does "move/move" change without the suppressedredirect="" equal to "move/move_redir", i.e. it's a move redirect operation? Thanks.

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how to resolve image url
by Thomas 17 Nov '13

17 Nov '13

Hi, I am writing a mobile client that can show wikipedia content. My approach is to download the raw media-wiki markup instead of the generated html. This allows me more control and I avoid using a html parser/viewer. The approach is quite successful except for when I encounter images. In the markup I can see something like; File:1945-P-Jefferson-War-Nickel-Reverse.JPG I use the API to fetch some metadata; en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=imageinfo \ &iilimit=1&format=xml&iiprop=dimensions%7Cmime&titles=[foo] The piece of the puzzle I am still missing is how to find out the actual download URL for any given image. I've seen images start with; http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6d/ and with; http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/ But I don't really understand how to decide what url to prefix to my image-name. Anyone can shed some light on this? Thanks! -- Thomas Zander

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geodata and geohack
by Luigi Assom 14 Nov '13

14 Nov '13

Hi All, we've been developing a product to access the knowledge in the wikipedia in other ways... and of course we make use of the mediawiki api. We are using geodata extension to construct a nearby similar to the wiki, but I'd like the possibility to retrieve articles beyond the 10000 limit radius: this is the case when I drag the map. As example, you can zoom out your map at "nations" scale, drag it around the globe, and you'll see other articles which will be pinned on the map. I've seen something similar within google maps and other mobile app, so I read again the doc http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GeoData I figured out this feature should be available from geohack, which is already included, by the use of parameter "scale". However, I didn't understand how to use it; also geohack is not mentioned in the main doc http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php Should I pipe it with a generator? Any example for doing it ? Once again, thank you so much for your help to all devs! Luigi

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How to get around server latency for parsed html revisions & parallel requests
by jeph 12 Nov '13

12 Nov '13

Hi, As part of the visualisation tool I'm building I'm fetching the parsed revisions of an article. When the article is of a considerable size , eg latest revisions of Barack Obama it takes 10+ seconds. As the tool is interactive and it shows the edits made to an article as an animation the time taken by the server does not bode well. (The requests are only read ) I'm currently not making parallel requests. What would a reasonable degree of parallel requests. Are there other ways to get around this latency issue ? https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Replay_Edits talks about the tool and the project. Thanks Jeph

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Wikipedia Page Count for a word/words
by Muhidin Mohamed 12 Nov '13

12 Nov '13

Dear All, I need to integrate the number of Wikipedia pages containing specific word in my application. for example if I write car, I want to receive all page count that are in Wikipedia and containing that word in any position of the article content. I have tried to use special search and retrieve and raw wikitext article but it is not efficient. I will appreciate if you can forward any links or information leading to that. Cheers, Muhidin A.

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Re: [Mediawiki-api] Working in a MediaWiki activity analyzer
by Alvaro del Castillo 08 Nov '13

08 Nov '13

Hi guys, Hmmm, I am in digest mode in the mailing list and I am not sure on how to respond efficiently to the digest email. Let's try. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 18:52:06 +0100 > From: Alvaro del Castillo <acs(a)bitergia.com> > To: mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: [Mediawiki-api] Working in a MediaWiki activity analyzer > Message-ID: <1383846726.14529.135.camel@lenovix> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Hi guys, > > We are working in an analyzer to gather the activity from MediaWiki > sites using the cool MediaWiki API. > > Right now the idea is to get a list of wiki pages using: > > "action=query&list=allpages&aplimit=500" > > and then for each page get all revisions with: > > action=query&prop=revisions&titles=Main%20Page&rvlimit=500 > > so we have all revisions activity (pretty similar to having all commits > to source code) for a MediaWiki site. > > We are doing it as Open Source in: > > https://github.com/MetricsGrimoire/MediaWikiAnalysis > > Any comments are welcomed! > > After having all the data we plan to use: > > https://github.com/VizGrimoire/VizGrimoireR > > for data analysis (SQL+R) combination > > and for doing the viz: > > https://github.com/VizGrimoire/VizGrimoireJS > > Kudos to Sumana Harihareswara for pointing me to this list! > > Cheers > -- > |\_____/| Alvaro del Castillo San Félix > [o] [o] acs(a)bitergia.com - Chief Technical Officer (CTO) > | V | http://www.bitergia.com > | | "Bridging the gap between developers and stakeholders" > -ooo-ooo- > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 13:29:56 -0500 > From: "Brad Jorsch (Anomie)" <bjorsch(a)wikimedia.org> > To: "MediaWiki API announcements & discussion" > <mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-api] Working in a MediaWiki activity analyzer > Message-ID: > <CAEepRSswUtAT7UXP7A8QAv6rXD34F6A0gG2O2d_OmAWeVbJN1Q(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > If you're using WMF sites, you'll want to download database dumps > instead. See http://dumps.wikimedia.org/. No, we are not using WMF sites. It is for getting metrics for website using MediaWiki as its engine. > > On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Alvaro del Castillo <acs(a)bitergia.com> wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > > We are working in an analyzer to gather the activity from MediaWiki > > sites using the cool MediaWiki API. > > > > Right now the idea is to get a list of wiki pages using: > > > > "action=query&list=allpages&aplimit=500" > > > > and then for each page get all revisions with: > > > > action=query&prop=revisions&titles=Main%20Page&rvlimit=500 > > > > so we have all revisions activity (pretty similar to having all commits > > to source code) for a MediaWiki site. > > > > We are doing it as Open Source in: > > > > https://github.com/MetricsGrimoire/MediaWikiAnalysis > > > > Any comments are welcomed! > > > > After having all the data we plan to use: > > > > https://github.com/VizGrimoire/VizGrimoireR > > > > for data analysis (SQL+R) combination > > > > and for doing the viz: > > > > https://github.com/VizGrimoire/VizGrimoireJS > > > > Kudos to Sumana Harihareswara for pointing me to this list! > > > > Cheers > > -- > > |\_____/| Alvaro del Castillo San Félix > > [o] [o] acs(a)bitergia.com - Chief Technical Officer (CTO) > > | V | http://www.bitergia.com > > | | "Bridging the gap between developers and stakeholders" > > -ooo-ooo- > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mediawiki-api mailing list > > Mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api > > > > -- > Brad Jorsch (Anomie) > Software Engineer > Wikimedia Foundation > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 22:40:14 +0100 > From: Platonides <platonides(a)gmail.com> > To: MediaWiki API announcements & discussion > <mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-api] Working in a MediaWiki activity analyzer > Message-ID: <527C08BE.5010607(a)gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > On 07/11/13 19:29, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote: > > If you're using WMF sites, you'll want to download database dumps > > instead. See http://dumps.wikimedia.org/. > > Indeed. Moreover, for your usecase stub dumps may be enough for you. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 23:02:28 -0500 > From: Nathan Larson <nathanlarson3141(a)gmail.com> > To: "MediaWiki API announcements & discussion" > <mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-api] Working in a MediaWiki activity analyzer > Message-ID: > <CAF-JeUwx-VA1Hs3wcNjo-GP7JsVECrdki-Bs5o91uVZYT+D1xQ(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Alvaro del Castillo <acs(a)bitergia.com>wrote: > > > Hi guys, > > > > We are working in an analyzer to gather the activity from MediaWiki > > sites using the cool MediaWiki API. > > > > > Sounds like an interesting project. I am working on something similar that > will start with the most recent dump and do API queries to stay up to date. > Perhaps we can collaborate? I created > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWikiAnalysis as a starting point for > further on-wiki discussion, if you're interested. Thanks. We have no dumps at all so we must use the API. I have finished a first version of the tool and you can see it in action in this sample: http://bitergia.com/projects/redhat-rdo-dashboard/browser/mediawiki.html It is showing the evolution in time of reviews (better editions?) and authors (better editors?). Also the panel is showing some global data about the WikiMedia site and the Top Authors (Editors). Our idea is to continue with the development in order to viz the MediaWiki website and its community evolution. I am taking a look to: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWikiAnalysis Cool! I plan to continue working and I'll try to share the work in this wiki page. Next goals: show pages evolution, continue with a new query when the limit is reached and do the work incremental so we can minimize the effort for updating the info. Guys, I plan to create such a viz also for mediawiki.org under the project: http://korma.wmflabs.org/browser/ Cheers! -- |\_____/| Alvaro del Castillo San Félix [o] [o] acs(a)bitergia.com - Chief Technical Officer (CTO) | V | http://www.bitergia.com | | "Bridging the gap between developers and stakeholders" -ooo-ooo-

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Working in a MediaWiki activity analyzer
by Alvaro del Castillo 08 Nov '13

08 Nov '13

Hi guys, We are working in an analyzer to gather the activity from MediaWiki sites using the cool MediaWiki API. Right now the idea is to get a list of wiki pages using: "action=query&list=allpages&aplimit=500" and then for each page get all revisions with: action=query&prop=revisions&titles=Main%20Page&rvlimit=500 so we have all revisions activity (pretty similar to having all commits to source code) for a MediaWiki site. We are doing it as Open Source in: https://github.com/MetricsGrimoire/MediaWikiAnalysis Any comments are welcomed! After having all the data we plan to use: https://github.com/VizGrimoire/VizGrimoireR for data analysis (SQL+R) combination and for doing the viz: https://github.com/VizGrimoire/VizGrimoireJS Kudos to Sumana Harihareswara for pointing me to this list! Cheers -- |\_____/| Alvaro del Castillo San Félix [o] [o] acs(a)bitergia.com - Chief Technical Officer (CTO) | V | http://www.bitergia.com | | "Bridging the gap between developers and stakeholders" -ooo-ooo-

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About the "external" update in the recent change list
by Liu Chenheng 24 Oct '13

24 Oct '13

Hi, All, I have known that when the language link of an article changes(i.e. change from wikidata.org) we will get an "external" update. Here I have a question: Does the "external" update include more cases except for the change of language link. i.e. How about the changes from commons.wikimedia.org, the template changes and the image file changes? Thanks, Ethan Liu

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김종범 부재중 자동응답: RE: About the "external" update in the recent change list
by "김종범" 24 Oct '13

24 Oct '13

NAVER - http://www.naver.com/ -------------------------------------------- 김종범(jongbeom.kim(a)nhn.com) 님은 현재 부재중입니다. 보내신 메일 <[Mediawiki-api] About the "external" update in the recent change list> 은 저장되어 있으므로 다시 보내실 필요는 없습니다. 김종범(jongbeom.kim(a)nhn.com) 님이 남기신 메시지 입니다. -------------------------------------------- 오늘 개인사유로 자리를 비웁니다. 긴급한 내용은 김웅섭 팀장님께 말씀 부탁드립니다 감사합니다. --------------------------------------------

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Querying categories at the bottom of wiki pages
by Chux 27 Sep '13

27 Sep '13

Hi guys, When I do a query for categories using the API I would only like to get the categories that are listed in the wiki page. For example when I query the Brocoli page, I get this: <categories> <cl ns="14" title="Category:All articles with unsourced statements"/> <cl ns="14" title="Category:Articles containing Italian-language text"/> <cl ns="14" title="Category:Articles with 'species' microformats"/> <cl ns="14" title="Category:Articles with unsourced statements from January 2013"/> <cl ns="14" title="Category:Brassica oleracea"/> <cl ns="14" title="Category:Commons category with local link same as on Wikidata"/> <cl ns="14" title="Category:Cultivars"/> <cl ns="14" title="Category:Edible plants"/> <cl ns="14" title="Category:Inflorescence vegetables"/> <cl ns="14" title="Category:Pages with citations having bare URLs"/> </categories> But I am only interested in these (You'll see it at the bottom of this page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brocoli): <cl ns="14" title="Category:Brassica oleracea"/> <cl ns="14" title="Category:Cultivars"/> <cl ns="14" title="Category:Edible plants"/> <cl ns="14" title="Category:Inflorescence vegetables"/> I was wondering if there is any workaround this? Thanks Chux

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