Re: [Mediawiki-api] MediaWiki API and Chinese language variants

14 Dec 2007

On 12/13/2007 11:28 PM, Paolo Liberatore wrote:
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  On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Jan Hecking wrote:

  On 12/13/2007 1:04 AM, Roan Kattouw wrote:

  Jan Hecking schreef:

  Hi,

 Is it possible to retrieve content in different Chinese language
 variants using the /w/api.php API? There doesn't seem to be a variant or
 language parameter that would allow selecting a variant like "zh-tw" or
 "zh-hk". Is there some other way to do this?

           How is this done in the regular user interface, then?

         I would like to know that as well. :)

 My suspicion is that the user interface, i.e. the frontend servers, do
 the conversion. Which would mean that all users of the MediaWiki API
 would have to replicate that work. That would severely limit the use of
 the API for Chinese language content IMHO. But then I don't know much
 about MediaWiki yet and maybe I have just missed something obvious.

 Thanks,
 Jan

 There is a "variant" parameter in
 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Parameters_to_index.php
 I believe it's only used for Chinese.

Thanks for the reminder, Paolo! I hadn't considered index.php before
because I assumed it only returns the rendered HTML markup. But now I
saw that there is an action=raw parameter which returns the raw wiki
markup that I'm looking for. However this API has one other drawback: In
contrast to api.php it doesn't have an option to resolve redirects
automatically. When calling api.php I was using the redirects parameter
to do so but this doesn't seem to be supported by index.php when using
action=raw (only for action=view). That means I would potentially have
to make multiple calls to resolve redirects manually. Or is there a way
to avoid this?

Thanks,
Jan

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Re: [Mediawiki-api] MediaWiki API and Chinese language variants