On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Bertel Teilfeldt Hansen <
geilfeldt(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Mediawiki-api mailing listers!
I'm trying to extract the full list of references for different revisions
of Wikipedia pages. This seemed like it would be easy enough with
"prop=references", but I keep getting the following error:
"error": {
"code": "citestoragedisabled",
"info": "Cite extension reference storage is not enabled.",
"*": "See
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php for API usage."
}
Even the example on the API's documentation page returns this error
(
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Breferenc…)ces).
Why does this occur? And is there no way of getting references through the API?
As the message says, it occurs when reference storage is not enabled (i.e.
when
$wgCiteStoreReferencesData is false).
Even if reference storage is enabled, note that prop=references always
returns the references for the current revision of the page. It does not
provide references for old revisions.
--
Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Senior Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation