Jan Hecking wrote:
To follow up on this somewhat old thread: I finally got around to actually testing Paolo's suggestion of using the index.php API instead of api.php. Turns out it doesn't actually work. While the index.php API does have a variant parameter that allows to select one of the Chinese language variants (e.g. zh, zh-hk, zh-tw) it does not actually honor this parameter when combined with action=raw. When returning the raw Wiki markup it always returns the same variant (zh?) no matter what variant is specified.
$ curl -s "http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E8%A5%BF%E6%81%A9%E5%A1%94&ac..."
zh-cn
$ curl -s "http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E8%A5%BF%E6%81%A9%E5%A1%94&ac..."
zh-tw
$ diff zh-cn zh-tw
diff shows that the markup returned is identical. With action=view (the default) the output is clearly different.
So it looks like there is actually no way to get the raw markup in different language variants?
Thanks, Jan
I think it's due there's only one raw markup. The variant is chosen later for display. So you should locally perform that work (you'll need some Mediawiki: messages).