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API: Fileupload with base64 encoded data
by Robert Vogel 02 Feb '12

02 Feb '12

Hi! Does anybody know if it is possible to upload a base64 encoded file via the API? I've already examined SVGEdit extension by Brion Vibber (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SVGEdit) to get behind the api file upload magic. But as SVG is just text it doesn't quite fit to my use case. When I try to upload a base64 encoded file via the API (i.e. a JPEG) I just get a file with the base64 string (i.e. plaintext with base64 code) written to the MediaWiki file repo. Any hints? Greetings, Robert Vogel Social Web Technologien Softwareentwicklung Hallo Welt! - Medienwerkstatt GmbH [cid:image001.png@01CCE104.F5BC2A10]<http://www.cebit.de/aussteller/hallo-welt-medienwerkstatt/V417252> ______________________________ Untere Bachgasse 15 93047 Regensburg Tel. +49 (0) 941 - 66 0 80 - 198 Fax +49 (0) 941 - 66 0 80 - 189 www.hallowelt.biz vogel(a)hallowelt.biz Sitz: Regensburg Amtsgericht: Regensburg Handelsregister: HRB 10467 E.USt.Nr.: DE 253050833 Geschäftsführer: Anja Ebersbach, Markus Glaser, Dr. Richard Heigl, Radovan Kubani

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Private/protected methods in API module(s)
by Daniel Renfro 27 Jan '12

27 Jan '12

I am working on an extension and would like to add some functionality to the 'usercontribs' api module (api/ApiQueryUserContributions.) I cannot subclass the ApiQueryUserContributions class and get the functionality I want because there are a number of methods that have a 'private' scope. Is there a reason that these are private and not protected? Daniel Renfro Senior Software Engineer T: 781-652-6465 Vistaprint Make an impression. Business Cards are FREE at www.vistaprint.com!

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Style Sheets when using the API with action=parse
by Shahar Prish 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

Thanks for the answer.. One follow-up.. Not sure what the acceptable way to answer these... >> 1.?????? Is this the preferred way to ask questions? Is there a >> web-based forum I can use to ask questions/search for answers? >> >Yes. Can you provide it? I can't find it. s

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Re: [Mediawiki-api] Style Sheets when using the API with action=parse
by Shahar Prish 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

Hi, 1. Is this the preferred way to ask questions? Is there a web-based forum I can use to ask questions/search for answers? 2. My questions: I am using the api's action=parse operation and am getting HTML that corresponds to said article. a. Is there a way to avoid redirect in pages (automatically get all-resolved URLs) b. Which CSS should I include in my HTML so that the formatting of the HTML will work properly? Not all styles are inlined. I could not find any info about this (really hard to search for Wikipedia-related programming elements - you keep hitting, well, Wikipedia. :)) Thanks, s

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API usage etiquette
by Fred Zimmerman 23 Jan '12

23 Jan '12

Is there any limit on frequency of requests to API?

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Get metadata for old revisions
by Abhishek 23 Jan '12

23 Jan '12

Hello all, I'm looking to get imageinfo type information for two different revisions of the same page. I'm thought the following would work: (revids are both for the page on Yogi Berra) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=xml&prop=images&revid… http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=xml&prop=images&revid… However both these queries give me the same response. Something I'm doing wrong? How should I go about doing this? Abhishek ------------ http://abhishek.mit.edu

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Querypage trouble
by Russell Blau 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

I am having a perplexing problem trying to retrieve a list of querypage results. The problem is that when I access the API from a script, I can only retrieve 1000 results from the API, while if I use exactly the same query manually in a browser, I can retrieve up to 5000 results. Here is an example of the query: http://simple.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=querypage&qppage=Di… When I put this query into Firefox manually, it returns the expected 100 results, plus a "query-continue" key. However, when I run exactly the same query from a Python script, it returns the same 100 results, but no "query-continue". (When qpoffset is less than 900, the script *does* return the "query-continue" key, the problem only occurs when trying to go past offset 1000.) The _only_ difference I can identify between the two queries is that the browser is doing an HTTP GET, while the Python script is doing an HTTP POST. Everything else is identical, which I have verified by logging the queries sent and responses received by the script and comparing them to my manual queries. Should GET vs. POST make a difference in the results returned by list=querypage? I've never seen this happen on any other type of API query. If that's not it, is there any other possible explanation?

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Improving web service API documentation and tutorials
by Sumana Harihareswara 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

This week and next week, I'm aiming to work on improving the documentation and tutorials for MediaWiki's web service API. I've already gotten a volunteer to redo https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page and am aiming on getting volunteers to improve the rest of the API: pages on mediawiki.org in the next few weeks. Now would be a great time for you to put feedback and "I wish this covered...." notes on Talk pages. Also, Max Semenik wrote a new GUI tool to help newbies explore the MediaWiki API. It's called the API Query Sandbox. You can try it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox and an improved version (not yet deployed) here: http://mobile-feeds.wmflabs.org/w/index.php/Special:ApiSandbox Please file bugs and enhancement requests in bugzilla.wikimedia.org (Product: MediaWiki extensions, Component: ApiSandbox). We want to make this better. Thanks! -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

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Editing en.wp via API to be disabled on 18 January
by Sumana Harihareswara 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/01/16/wikipedias-community-calls-for-anti-s… Editing pages on English Wikipedia via the web service API will be disabled for 24 hours beginning at 05:00 UTC on Wednesday, January 18, as part of the anti-SOPA/PIPA blackout. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

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can't figure out Xpath to query text and url nodes for SearchSuggestion using xmlstarlet
by Fred Zimmerman 10 Jan '12

10 Jan '12

I am having trouble figuring out how to give XMLStarlet the right Xpath to query nodes in a Wikipedia XML document. This is an xpath problem, really, not a starlet problem. I don't understand how to formulate the xpath portion of the xmlstarlet call. Help! curl " > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=opensearch&search=Bullwinkle&names…" > -o bullwinkle.xml > returns: > ?xml version="1.0"?> > <SearchSuggestion version="2.0" xmlns=" > http://opensearch.org/searchsuggest2"> > <Query xml:space="preserve">Bullwinkle</Query> > <Section> > <Item> > <Text xml:space="preserve">Bullwinkle</Text> > <Description xml:space="preserve">Bullwinkle may refer to:</Description> > <Url xml:space="preserve">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullwinkle</Url> > </Item> > <Item> > <Text xml:space="preserve">Bullwinkle J. Moose</Text> > <Description xml:space="preserve">Bullwinkle J. </Description> > <Url xml:space="preserve">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullwinkle_J._Moose</Url> > ... I try: > xmlstarlet sel -N x=http://opensearch.org/searchsuggest2 -t -v > "count(/SearchSuggestion/Section/@Item)" bullwinkle.xml which I want to count the items, but it won't. WHat I am working to do is to extract the text and url values and put them into a csv file. How to do this is explained at http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/doc/UG/ch04s01.html (about 2/3 way down) but you have to know how to formulate the xpath for the source xml doc--which I don't! Any help would be much appreciated. ----------------------------------------------------- Subscribe to the Nimble Books Mailing List http://eepurl.com/czS- for monthly updates

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