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Checking whether Real Name is enabled or not in a MediaWiki site
by Adrián Chaves Fernández 10 May '13

10 May '13

Is it possible to check through the MediaWiki API (or another non-interactive way) whether real names are enabled or not (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgHiddenPrefs) in a MediaWiki site?

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Fwd: [Wikitech-l] APIStrat conference, San Francisco, October 23, 24, 25
by Sumana Harihareswara 09 May '13

09 May '13

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Wikitech-l] APIStrat conference, San Francisco, October 23, 24, 25 Date: Tue, 07 May 2013 14:33:40 -0700 From: Juliusz Gonera <jgonera(a)wikimedia.org> Reply-To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> A friend of mine is co-organizing a conference about APIs. She asked me if there is someone from Wikimedia or the community who would be interested in participating. It will take place in Parc 55 Hotel in San Francisco on October 23, 24, 25. A bit of information about the conference: > APIStrat is a vendor neutral conference, and we are committed to > promote API usage/knowledge, and specifically with the event, to build > a great program with interesting content and actually create something > that is useful for the community. People behind it are Kin Lane > (@apievangelist) and 3Scale. Here you can see speakers from the > previous event: http://apistrategyconference.com/2013NYC/speakers.php, > where they brought together over 350 people. Videos of the previous > event can be found here: http://www.infoq.com/api-strategy-practice/ > > This time we are expecting between 500-600 attendees, and it will be > both service providers and API consumers (developers). The previous > edition was mostly addressed to providers, but we will have an > exclusive track addressed to developers in this edition. They'd like us to: - talk about how much traffic we deal with, how do we do it, who uses our API (or something similar that we think would be of general interest), - participate in the "APIs in Government - Towards a Data Commons" panel giving the perspective of a non-profit (they aim to have federal, state, education, international, and non-profit representation in this panel). Seems interesting. Is there anyone who'd be interested in giving a talk or participating in a panel there? -- Juliusz _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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Total number of pages in a namespace?
by Chux 08 May '13

08 May '13

Hi, I was wondering if there is a way to know how many pages are inside a namespace, for example how many pages are "Categories", or how many pages are "Articles"? Thanks, Chux

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Re: [Mediawiki-api] Fwd: first image of articles, sequential request
by Luigi Assom 07 May '13

07 May '13

Hello, I have another question on pageimages: I can't get it work with list=search: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=search&srsearch=francis… could you please help in understanding if i am doing wrong smtg? also, is there any planned release of api 2.0 ? What about the legacy and normalization of continue parameters? thank you! On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Max Semenik <maxsem.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On 29.04.2013, 22:26 Luigi wrote: > > > Thank you Max! > > quick, neat and clear. > > > Just a note: I'd see useful the possibility to re-size an image not > > only by largest dimension, but also by width (or height) > > so that one could have all img with same width/height, very yuseful > > for formatting on mobile handsets. > > > Do you think it could be useful and would you consider to modify the > code for this feature? > > It will produce weird results for images with unusual dimensions: very > wide or very narrow. We use pithumbsize with good results for mobile. > > > > -- > Best regards, > Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) > > -- Luigi Assom Skype contact: oggigigi

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Filtering protected templates when listing templates associated to a page
by Chux 03 May '13

03 May '13

Hi guys, I am trying to retrieve the templates associated to a page: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=templates&format=json&t… So in this scenario, I am able to get a list, but I noticed some of the listed templates here are marked as protected. I am not able to see any attribute in the results that shows this flag. Any ideas on how can I filter those out? Thanks, Chux

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[Mediawiki-api-announce] Echo breaks meta=userinfo&uiprop=hasmsg
by Brad Jorsch 03 May '13

03 May '13

If your bot checks meta=userinfo&uiprop=hasmsg to determine if a talk page message has been posted in order to stop running, it is currently broken since Echo disables that along with the orange bar. This issue is being tracked at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47962 -- Brad Jorsch 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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Re: [Mediawiki-api] [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki API 2.0 (was GSoC Application)
by Sumana Harihareswara 02 May '13

02 May '13

On 04/29/2013 05:27 PM, Quim Gil wrote: > On 04/29/2013 02:18 PM, Aayush Sharma wrote: >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Aayush251/gsoc >> Please review my GSoC application. > > Hi Aayush, please write more specific emails in a mailing list. It will > help getting more people looking at your proposal. > > You could also have pasted the summary here, so people can have a look > and decide whether they want to check more or not. > > For instance, in your proposal you say > > GSoC Project Idea: MediaWiki API 2.0 > > I will be working and modifying MediaWiki API to solve the following > problems: > > * Avoiding client to update every time API changes > * Developers will develop extensions from the single default API > (recommended). > * Reduce the cost of making a change in MediaWiki. > * Organize feature changes - if the client asks for ver X, API > guarantees the capabilities of X and result in format X. > * Avoid cluttering of parameters. > * All API capabilities should return only the data requested to > minimize bandwidth and improve speed. > > Good luck! Hi, Aayush. I'm cc'ing the mediawiki-api mailing list. Some questions: * Do you plan on working in a branch for a few weeks or months and then merging it into master on September 10th? It seems to me that it would be better to write improvements one by one and have a lot of smaller merges. * What kind of documentation will you be writing? A walkthrough of the code so future developers can understand it? Some kind of user-facing manual? Other things? * Have you already reviewed https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API/REST_proposal , read the last few months of the mediawiki-api mailing list https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api , and looked at the recent changes to the API code https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/message:api+status:merged,n,z to see what the current trends are? * Can you tell us how long it has taken you to do similar projects in the past? * Who are your mentors? -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation

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styling and css or "neater" json? api?
by Luigi Assom 29 Apr '13

29 Apr '13

Hi all! I've been studing the api and had a look to the extensions, I have some questions about the proper way to style the html obtained of an article. I am looking at the parse api. I wonder if contentformat or contentmodel do the trick to obtain an article with a "cleaner" html or the matched css, so that it can be "re-styled". Unfortunately, I have not been able to use this parameters: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&page=New%20Jersey&contentfor… Could you please give me an example so that i understand what do they do? Alternatively, i could use mobileformat parameters, which seems to get an adapted and cleaner html. But still, I would need to find out the scheme of Id and classes used in the html to re-style it. Where could I find such scheme? I also would like to get rid of the [edit] or [update] elements: I want the article in "read mode" only. Is there maybe a parameters providing this output? If someone of you ever saw the "Dictionary" application in a macbook (pointing at wikipedia) that is the style I am aiming to. Am I going in the proper direction ? Do you have any remark or suggestion ? I was thinking to apply a css on obtained html, if there was a json output with just "bare" elements (such as table, images, paragraphs, links ext, links int, ) it would awesome... As always, thank you very much for sharing ideas. -- Luigi Assom Skype contact: oggigigi

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Article Lat Long
by Chris Thomas 29 Apr '13

29 Apr '13

Ah ha, I think I have found it prop=coordinates Hoorah! Cheers CT

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first image of articles, sequential request
by Luigi Assom 29 Apr '13

29 Apr '13

Hello, I read there is no api to obtain main article of wikipedia articles, but I also noticed many topics on stackoverflow are old of one year. Is there any progress on this? Also, is it possible to obtain thumbnails of images (or specified size) for multiple pages? If there is no way to obtain the first image appearing in the article, which way would you suggest in order to pick up the image from a set of images in the page, avoiding to parse the whole page and get the thumbnail? this would be important because I am trying to make a sequential call and i don't want to query in parallel. Thank you for sharing ideas and state of the art! Luigi -- Luigi Assom Skype contact: oggigigi

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