On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Robert Crowe robert@ourwebhome.com wrote:
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&bltitl...
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>
You criticize my request because another request does not give the same result as a third request... I understand less and less of what you are trying to do.