Yes, they use roughly the same data source.
Quarry and api handle confidential data in a different way. There may be slight differences around that, but thats not relavent to wikiprojects.
Brian
On Sunday, February 18, 2018, Bowen Yu <bowen-yu@umn.edu> wrote:
> I see. That makes sense. Yes, I was using list=projectpages.
> Another question: is Quarry querying against the same data source as API? I am able to use Quarry to get articles of some task forces (here is the query I used), but again, no luck on wikiproject democratic republic of the congo either.. Any explanation? Thanks!
> On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 9:53 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <bjorsch@wikimedia.org> wrote:
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>> On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 4:33 PM, Brian Wolff <bawolff@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=categorymembers&cmtitle=Category:WikiProject_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo_articles&cmlimit=max seems to work fine.
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>>> If i were to guess why its not on list=projectpages, id say that wikiproject democratic republic of the congo is not a full on wikiproject itself but just a subproject of wikiproject africa.
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>> That would be the case. list=projectpages depends on something using the {{#assessment:}} parser function to "tag" the page with the project. On enwiki this is typically done by Template:WPBannerMeta (specifically, Template:WPBannerMeta/core), but that template (currently) just does it for the main project, not for task forces.
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