Thanks André, but after testing it seems that backlinks returns something else. For example this query:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Category:Voltaire&...
Returns:
<query> <pages> <page pageid="3465227" ns="14" title="Category:Voltaire"> <categories> <cl ns="14" title="Category:Categories named after French people" /> <cl ns="14" title="Category:Categories named after philosophers" /> <cl ns="14" title="Category:Categories named after writers" /> </categories> </page> </pages> </query>
But this query:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=backlinks&bltitl...
Returns:
<query> <backlinks /> </query>
If I just use "Voltaire" instead of "Category:Voltaire" then I think it's looking at a different page, right? The results are different, and don't match the first query results:
<query> <backlinks> <bl pageid="3465227" ns="14" title="Category:Voltaire" /> <bl pageid="15582893" ns="14" title="Category:Novels by Voltaire" /> </backlinks> </query>
Thanks in advance,
Robert
-----Original Message----- From: Andre Engels [mailto:andreengels@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2011 11:08 PM To: MediaWiki API announcements & discussion Cc: Robert Crowe Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-api] Portals vs categories
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 2:58 AM, Robert Crowe robert@ourwebhome.com wrote:
I think of this as a tree, even though I know it's a graph. If I send a query like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&page=Portal:Novels
The <links> element contains <pl> items in namespaces 0 (articles), 14 (categories), and 100 (portals). I interpret that as "Portal:Novels contains these items", meaning that in tree terms it is the parent of those items, or that those items "belong to Portal:Novels".
If I send a query like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?cmtitle=Category:Literature&action=que...
The <categories> element contains <cl> items that are the categories that contain Category:Literature, the parent categories. Similarly for pages.
So I'm able to list the categories that are the parents of a given category or page, but I can't seem to find a way to list the portals that are the parents of a given category or page. Is there a way to do that? Basically I'm just trying to navigate the tree.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=backlinks&bltitl...
(replace Voltaire by whichever page you're interested in)