ah, I was pretty sure I saw your name somewhere before. A GSoCer =)
Have you tried simply reading http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php ? It gives a simple overview of most of the API's possibilities. I also links to.... http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API the API documentation =)
Regarding your question, searching for "backlinks" on the first page links you to a good example: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=backlinks&bltitl...
GSoC is a lot about looking by yourself for documentation, about being independent. Come on', dig a bit more, the answer wasn't so hard to find =)
2009/1/18 Ankuj Gupta ankuj2004@gmail.com:
Hi
I am working on my wikipedia project. I require to know the number of back links for a page. For this i am planning to use the mediawiki api. But i need help regarding how can be they be used. Can api be used offline. Thans
-- Ankuj Gupta Computer Engineering NSIT India
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