Sentence handling algorithm appears to suck at HTML handling. I've filed a bug for it: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71671 As a workaround, try plaintext extracts: https://et.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=extracts%7Ccategori... or switch from requesting a number of sentences to a number of characters.
On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Kristian Kankainen kristian@eki.ee wrote:
Hi!
When I query the Estonian Wikipedia's Web API for the article's first sentence, I sometimes get empty response. Actually it gives back an horizontal rule and thats it.
For example: https://et.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=extracts%7Ccategori... exsentences=1&redirects=&format=jsonfm&cllimit=10&exlimit=1&indexpageids=& maxlag=10&titles=järv
gives only an horizontal rule as the extract: "extract": "<hr />",
Can anyone say what is happening here. Is the article's source organized in a wrong way or is it a problem on the APIs sentence parser side?
Best regards Kristian Kankainen
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