It looks like that is just a template on the category page: {{Cat main|Cricket}} which is
described here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cat_main
So it's just text on the page, not part of any database structure. In other words,
it's part of wikipedia's particular content/structure -- not mediawiki -- so
it's not going to be in the API. The primary data structure for mediawiki is…
unstructured text, which makes things like this a bit of a challenge. :) You could pull
the contents of the page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cricket?action=raw and
look for {{Cat
On Jun 20, 2013, at 1:38 PM, Pavan Kapanipathi <pavan(a)knoesis.org> wrote:
Is there a way (ex: API - params) to get the main
article for a category on wikipedia.
For example,
The Category page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cricket
has content "The main article for this category is Cricket."
I need to retrieve the article Cricket.
In the above example, It is just a co-incidence that the category name and the article
name are the same.
I looked through the API (
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php) but didnt find anything
relevant. Am I missing something?
Thanks and Regards,
Pavan Kapanipathi
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