I should clarify since I now realize that the wikitext on the page
(
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Sidney_Crosby.jpg&a…)
contains attribution info in the Flickr template, which is good enough.
However, I can't seem to get this info when using the prop=revisions query
I've been using and works most of the time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&generator=search&pro…
Notice the first few images have no revisions returned, while the last three
have revisions returned. If I go straight to the image file and try
prop=revisions, I get the info back. What am I doing wrong with my query
above that's causing some images to return revision wikitext, while others
to not return it?
Thanks.
shafqat wrote:
That is a good suggestion, and using the wikitext via the prop=revisions
parameter worked for the example given before. However, it does not always
work and I was wondering if there is a consistent rule or way to get this
info.
For example, for this image page
(
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Sidney_Crosby.jpg), I can see
the 'Author' field on screen. But in the wikitext here
(
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Sidney_Crosby.jpg&a…)dit),
there is no 'Author' field. Nor does it appear if I use the prop=revisions
API parameter.
Is there no consistent rule to get the author for images? Sorry if I am
missing something obvious but I'm fairly new to this.
Roan Kattouw-2 wrote:
2009/7/2 shafqat <shafqat(a)newscred.com>om>:
I have spent a lot of time in the forum and now have a working query
that
gets me all the information I need (a list of images plus other info).
However, I need to also get the image author so that I can have the
proper
attribution. Have tried everything but cannot get that piece of data. Am
I
missing something?
This is the query that I am using to get the images:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&generator=images&am…
As an example, for this file
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BarackObama2005portrait.jpg, I
would
want to get back the text "United States Senate", which is listed right
next
to the Author field.
It's right there in the wikitext:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:BarackObama2005portrait…
. Grab the wikitext of the file description page through
prop=revisions and find the attribution in it.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)
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