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Api access restriction
by Андрій Гончар 22 Apr '11

22 Apr '11

Hello! Can I restrict access to mediawiki api? I need deny all permission for every users, except one, which login and password I give to client

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[Mediawiki-api-announce] BREAKING CHANGE: Sortkeys in list=categorymembers and prop=categories are now hexadecimal
by Roan Kattouw 17 Apr '11

17 Apr '11

As of r86257 [1], which will be deployed to Wikimedia wikis soon and will be included in the 1.17 release, sortkeys output by list=categorymembers and prop=categories are now encoded as hexadecimal strings, so "FOO" becomes "464f4f". As previously announced, sortkeys are no longer guaranteed to be human-readable, and may in fact contain binary data (this will happen when Wikimedia switches to the UCA/ICU collation). However, outputting binary data, notably in XML, was problematic [2], so I decided to use hexadecimal encoding. This means the sortkey as returned by the API is now guaranteed to not be human-readable, even if the underlying collation uses a human-readable format (such as the uppercase collation currently in use on Wikimedia wikis). However, it will still sort correctly: if A sorts before B in the binary format, that will also be the case in the hexadecimal format. The following things changed: * The 'sortkey' property in list=categorymembers and prop=categories is now a hexadecimal string * In prop=categories , clprop=sortkey will now also output the 'sortkeyprefix' property (human-readable part of the sortkey). list=categorymembers already provided this through cmprop=sortkeyprefix * The format of cmcontinue has changed from type|pageid|rawsortkey to type|hexsortkey|pageid . If you did not make any assumptions about the format of cmcontinue and just passed back whatever you got in query-continue, this won't affect you Roan Kattouw (Catrope) [1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWik… [2] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28541 _______________________________________________ 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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CentralAuth SUL Login
by Sreejith K. 15 Apr '11

15 Apr '11

The documentation for API:Login <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Login> is not elaborate enough and I find it confusing. I don't know whether I am the only one. This is the statement in particular that I am finding difficult to comprehend. CentralAuth SUL Login ... Now you have to parse the cookie by looking for the centralauth_ cookies and adding additional entries for all other wikis that centralauth covers in your setup. The cookies I get when I log in (after I get a success message) is like this. First, I do not understand why the domains for centralauth cookies is not having the language code (in this case 'en'). I tried manually changing it to en.wikipedia.org but that did not help. Second, I am not sure whether I create new cookies myself and give the names as enwiki_User, enwiki_Token and enwiki_Session and then copy the domain and values. "Domain:en.wikipedia.org, Name:enwiki_session, Value:a645f734457a6dc84071c76920f49d17" "Domain:en.wikipedia.org, Name:enwikiUserID, Value:1668905" "Domain:en.wikipedia.org, Name:enwikiUserName, Value:Sreejithk2000" "Domain:.wikipedia.org, Name:centralauth_User, Value:Sreejithk2000" "Domain:.wikipedia.org, Name:centralauth_Token, Value:10818a0450a622c4b3ca32e25a73df54" "Domain:.wikipedia.org, Name:centralauth_Session, Value:aa05490f4be76d3be15641e71531bcc5" Can someone elaborate on the next steps on the API portal or reply back to this email? Quite surprisingly, I pointed my api to commons and all the Domains now gives the complete domain (commons.wikipedia.org) and I can get an edit token with these cookies. Thanks, Sreejith K.

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cmstartsortkey for Categorymembers
by Andre Engels 07 Apr '11

07 Apr '11

When using cmstartsortkey for a category, I get the impression the result is incorrect. I requested: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?cmprop=title|ids|sortkey|timestamp&cmstar… The way I understand it (and the way pywikipediabot uses it) this should give the disambiguation pages starting at Da. In reality however, it gives them starting at D + <some unicode character beyond z>. Am I misunderstanding the working of this api part or is this a bug? -- André Engels, andreengels(a)gmail.com

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[Mediawiki-api-announce] BREAKING CHANGE: cltype parameter ignored when clsort=timestamp is set
by Roan Kattouw 28 Mar '11

28 Mar '11

As of r84905 [1] (going live to Wikimedia within the hour), the cltype parameter to list=categorymembers is ignored when clsort=timestamp is set. This change is needed for performance reasons: long-running queries were causing bug 28291 [2] on Wikimedia wikis. This does not break backwards compatibility with any released version of MediaWiki, because cltype is new in 1.17. Functional cltype=foo&clsort=timestamp behavior was only live on Wikimedia wikis for about 2-3 weeks. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) _______________________________________________ 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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Extracting data for transcluded Y/N for a series of pages
by Billinghurst 28 Mar '11

28 Mar '11

At Wikisource we do a lot of work proofreading in our Page: ns, with the pages being "held together" by an overarching page in the Index: namespace. Principally the text gets proofread and the validated in the Page: pages and later transcluded into the main namespace (our presentation layer). A transclusion can be a part of a page, a whole page, or a series of pages depending on the work being reproduced, and how we are choosing to present it. What I would like to do per work is to determine which pages are and which are not transcluded a yes/no answer, rather than to know to where the page is transcluded. At the moment, my only means to determine if a page is trancluded is to individually check each page via WhatLinksHere, and I am looking for an easier way to determine the Y/N answer, so I am looking for an easy way to dynamically determine this for a series of pages. Ultimately my ideal outcome is to have a link on the Index: page that could easily show which pages are and which pages are not transcluded. I know what I want, however, I no idea to get either the API to work for me, or to work out how to do it for a series of pages. Hence I am here to ask for some guidance and assistance. Examples based on the work of vol. 32 of the Dictionary of National Biography * Index:Dictionary of National Biography volume 32.djvu https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikisource/en/wiki/Index:Dictionary_of_Nationa… ==Transcluded page== * Page:Dictionary of National Biography volume 32.djvu/163 https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikisource/en/wiki/Page:Dictionary_of_National… https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikisource/en/w/api.php?action=query&generator… <?xml version="1.0"?> <api> <query> <pages> <page pageid="554940" ns="0" title="Laski, John (DNB00)" touched="2011-03-14T21:59:25Z" lastrevid="2341119" counter="" length="341" /> </pages> </query> </api> ==Non-transcluded page== * Page:Dictionary of National Biography volume 32.djvu/263 https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikisource/en/Page:Dictionary_of_National_Biog… https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikisource/en/w/api.php?action=query&generator… <?xml version="1.0"?> <api /> Thanks in advance for any guidance. Regards Andrew

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Is there an advantage to putting parameters in the URL?
by richardcavell＠mail.com 26 Mar '11

26 Mar '11

Hi, everyone. My Wikipedia bot used to access Wikipedia by putting parameters into URLs, like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=info%7Crevisions&intoke… I put some parameters into POST data, though. Firstly, anything that I think ought to be kept relatively secret (such as login password), and secondly, anything that might be long (such as edited text or even edit summaries). Today I converted my bot to use bare URLs and put all the parameters in POST. Yet, I wonder if I should have an option in my bot for the user to use URL parameters instead of POST parameters. Bear in mind that although I'm coding with Wikipedia in mind, my bot is open source and intended to be used with any Mediawiki project. I can see that there are avantages to putting parameters into POST data. Are there any advantages to a bot putting parameters into the URL? Richard

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Help with upload api
by Sreejith K. 25 Mar '11

25 Mar '11

I am trying to make a script to move files from local wikipedia to commons but is getting an invalid token error. I could not search the archives and see whether this has been addressed before. Here is what I am trying to do. 1) Get token using the following api http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=info&titles=Catego… Result: <api> <query> <pages> <page pageid="10307065" ns="14" title="Category:Commons-ml" touched=" 2011-03-14T05:01:24Z" lastrevid="49830005" counter="" length="728" starttimestamp="2011-03-25T13:16:52Z" edittoken=" 5b0b59cdc36f85c8a16b35acbb714189+\"/> </pages> </query> </api> 2) Post an image using the following api. http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=upload&filename=Kerala_New_Hi… Response <api servedby="srv214"> <error code="badtoken" info="Invalid token"/> </api> I am not sure whats wrong with my token here. Please advice. I dit he posting using a dot net program after including "multipart/form-data" in the header. Thanks, Sreejith K.

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Maximum length of various strings
by richardcavell＠mail.com 23 Mar '11

23 Mar '11

Hi everyone, I have written a Wikipedia bot. It obviously does a fair amount of work with strings. I'd like to know what are MediaWiki's or Wikipedia's limits for the size of these strings. For example, I have found documentation that states that edit summaries are limited to 200 characters. (I'm not sure if that includes a terminating zero or not). Where can I find the maximum size for: URL page title page content (wikitext and HTML versions) HTTP response from server edit token login token username etc. Richard

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Portals vs categories
by Robert Crowe 20 Mar '11

20 Mar '11

I'm able to list the categories that a page belongs to, and the categories that a category contains. I'm also able to list the portals that a category contains, but I can't seem to find a way to list the portals that a page or category belongs to. Is there a way to do that? Thanks in advance, Robert

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