Hi,

I am writing a mobile client that can show wikipedia content. My approach is to download the raw media-wiki markup instead of the generated html.  This allows me more control and I avoid using a html parser/viewer.

The approach is quite successful except for when I encounter images.
In the markup I can see something like;
  File:1945-P-Jefferson-War-Nickel-Reverse.JPG

I use  the API to fetch some metadata;
 en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=imageinfo \
  &iilimit=1&format=xml&iiprop=dimensions%7Cmime&titles=[foo]

The piece of the puzzle I am still missing is how to find out the actual download URL for any given image.

I've seen images start with;
 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6d/
and with;
 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/

But I don't really understand how to decide what url to prefix to my image-name.
Anyone can shed some light on this?

Thanks!
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Thomas Zander

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