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