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edit a page without leading pipe characters
by Andreas Mrvka 27 Sep '13

27 Sep '13

Hello list, after I can successfully edit pages via API function I want to send text content with pipe characters. It works as long this characters is not at the beginning of a line. (but most formulars work in that way) Leading pipe " | " sign is ignored. My script looks like: content="content|pipe|content |newline |newline" wget ..... --post-data "action=edit&title=pagename&text=$content&token= The result looks like: content|pile|content newline newline Can anybody help me how to quote it? Thanks Andreas

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SOLVED:edit a page without leading pipe characters
by Andreas Mrvka 27 Sep '13

27 Sep '13

Hello list, I have roll back my message. I forgot to close my form field correctly. It works now as expected. Kind regards Andreas

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edit a page per api.php but have token problems
by Andreas Mrvka 27 Sep '13

27 Sep '13

Hello list, I've read many posts around this error but I cannot figure out why I did not get it. I hope you can shine a light to it, please. My system: MW 1.21.1 I use AUTH_REMOTEUSER modul and its working fine. It seems that it works with the api.php too. (fetching info with my user rights) Well, referring to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php I want to do the action=edit to create or edit pages. So I start to fetch my login token. wget --http-user=myuser --http-password=mypwd " https://localhost/wiki/api.php?action=query&prop=info|revisions&intoken=edi… then I get the xml back ... <page ns="0" title="mynewpage" missing="" starttimestamp="2013-09-26T21:38:59Z" edittoken="396fb7fbd9a308620d460e92e611d100+\" /></pages> ... So I extract this edittoken-element and simply create a new page. ($newtoken=edittoken) wget --http-user=myuser --http-password=mypwd --header="Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" "https://localhost/wiki/api.php" --post-data "action=edit&title=mynewpage&text=test&token=$newtoken" I get back: error code="badtoken" info="Invalid token" After investigation I found a webpage https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Edit which describes the token characters (The token that you received is terminated with +\, this needs to be urlencoded (so it will end with %2B%5C) before it is passed back) I tried it with this hint and without it.... but with no success.... I also tried to do a normal login (action=login) but it does not help. For information... my user does not have any password because of active directory authentication by the webserver. So I can not add the parameter lgname=myuser&lgpassword .... Please can you help me? Thank you very much! Andreas

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Getting the total edits on an article from the API
by jeph 17 Sep '13

17 Sep '13

Hi, I'm building an edit visualisation tool , demo<https://googledrive.com/host/0B1hJO1N6piYFTTVZdW1mU2c0S28/visualise.html>. I'm trying to get the total number of edits to show the user & for a few other things. I haven't been able to retrieve it from the API, though I can see it in the info page of an article eg, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=JSON&action=info#mw-pageinfo-edi… Any pointers to a solution will be really helpful :-) Thanks Jeph

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Getting Location Data
by McIver, David 16 Sep '13

16 Sep '13

Hello all, I've gathered a lot of data regarding article views for a select number of articles of interest on the English language Wikipedia. I am interesting in finding out if there is a way to collect this data only for articles that were viewed in a specific country (i.e. the United States). Is this possible to do? I would also be interested in doing the same thing for article edits as well. Thanks very much, David McIver Boston Children's Hospital Harvard Medical School

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getting plain text from mediaWiki API
by Anubha Banerjee 16 Sep '13

16 Sep '13

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18822657/why-are-templates-not-in-proper…

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[Mediawiki-api-announce] BREAKING CHANGE: Wikidata API changing to upper-case IDs
by Brad Jorsch (Anomie) 10 Sep '13

10 Sep '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 12:11:56 +0200 From: Daniel Kinzler <daniel.kinzler(a)wikimedia.de> Hi all. With today's deployment, the Wikibase API modules used on wikidata.org will change from using lower-case IDs (q12345) to upper-case IDs (Q12345). This is done for consistency with the way IDs are shown in the UI and used in URLs. The API will continue to accept entity IDs in lower-case as well as upper-case. Any bot or other client that has no property or item IDs hardcoded or configured in lower case should be fine. If however your code looks for some specific item or property in the output returned from the API, and it's using a lower-case ID to do so, it may now fail to match the respective ID. There is potential for similar problems with Lua code, depending on how the data structure is processed by Lua. We are working to minimize the impact there. Sorry for the short notice. Please test your code against test.wikidata.org and let us know if you find any issues. Thanks, Daniel PS: issue report on bugzilla: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53894 _______________________________________________ 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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change API url and host API in 3rd-party service
by John Chung 09 Sep '13

09 Sep '13

Hi all, Currently I create a mediawiki website. For the API request, I want to add some limit such as 1000 per day per developer,etc. I find 3scale provides this service, but I have some problems to deploy it. Do I really need 3rd-party service to add limit to mediawiki? If so, how can I change the API url, for me, I want to change it from example.com/w/api.php to api.example.com Thanks Best, John

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[Mediawiki-api-announce] BREAKING CHANGE: "gettoken" parameter for action=block and action=unblock removed
by Brad Jorsch (Anomie) 04 Sep '13

04 Sep '13

Due to a security issue,[1] the deprecated "gettoken" parameter to action=block and action=unblock has been removed. Clients should use action=tokens to fetch tokens of types "block" or "unblock" instead. This also applies to the security release 1.21.2. [1]: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49090 -- 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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FW: [Ticket#2013090310000891] Questions about Wiki robots rule Policy
by 김종범 03 Sep '13

03 Sep '13

Hello. I'm Jong Beom Kim, web search product manager of Naver Corporation(www.naver.com) Please, check the robots rule issues ===================================================== We offer search results by collecting the data of Wikipedia. However, transmitting data by dumping is not satisfy freshness, so we want to collect the data by API( https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API) ) for freshness. Your sites robots rules are restricting our API access(/w/api.php) Therefore, YETI(Naver Corporation Web Robot Crawler) would collect the data by API ignoring "robots.txt' If the above method is not allowed, can you tell us the correct process and policy of access? I will wait for your guidance about policy and process of collecting data. ========================================== Best regards. Thanks -----Original Message----- From: "Wikipedia information team"<info-en(a)wikimedia.org> To: <jongbeom.kim(a)nhn.com>om>; Cc: <answers(a)wikimedia.org>rg>; Sent: 2013-09-03 (화) 11:33:13 Subject: Re: [Ticket#2013090310000891] Questions about Wiki robots rule Policy Dear 김종범, For the best chance of a quick resolution to the issue you are having, you should email the mailing list that has a team of volunteers that look over technical matters relating to MediaWiki software and interface. This team can be reached at mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org. I should note at this point that while this correspondence is private, emails to most Wikimedia mailing lists (including mediawiki-l) are public. Yours sincerely, Kosten Frosch -- Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/ --- Disclaimer: all mail to this address is answered by volunteers, and responses are not to be considered an official statement of the Wikimedia Foundation. For official correspondence, please contact the Wikimedia Foundation by certified mail at the address listed on https://www.wikimediafoundation.org/ 09/03/2013 02:04 - 김종범 wrote: > Hello. > > I'm Jong Beom Kim, web search product manager of Naver Corporation(www.naver.com) > > We offer search results by collecting the data of Wikipedia. > However, transmitting data by dumping is not satisfy freshness, > so we want to collect the data by API( https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API) ) for > freshness. > > Your sites robots rules are restricting our API access(/w/api.php) > Therefore, YETI(Naver Corporation Web Robot Crawler) would collect the data by API > ignoring "robots.txt' > If the above method is not allowed, can you tell us the correct process and policy > of access? > > I will wait for your guidance about policy and process of collecting data. > > Thank you. > > > > Kim Jong Beom > User DB Search Team / Assistant Manager > > 4th FL., NAVER Green Factory, 178-1 Jeongja-dong, Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, > Gyeonggi-do, KOREA > Tel 031-784-2718 > Email jongbeom.kim(a)nhn.com > > > > >

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