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&bltit…
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(a)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=qu…
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.
(replace Voltaire by whichever page you're interested in)
--
André Engels, andreengels(a)gmail.com