Thanks, that makes sense. This looks like it actually pulls down what I'm
looking for:
I'm now curious how that list is generated. I'm specifically wondering if
it is a definitive source of truth on what it is producing, or if that is
somehow coming from somewhere else.
On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 10:06 AM Michael Holloway <mholloway(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Hi Ed,
The information I think you're looking for is available via the API's
sitematrix <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SiteMatrix#API>
action:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=sitematrix
The Wikimedia projects are typically referred to as "projects" (in the
context of their content and contributors' day-to-day work) or "sites"
(usually in the context of their technical infrastructure and operations).
A namespace is a concept used in MediaWiki to group pages by type at a high
level. Examples of namespaces include "Talk" for discussion pages about
articles, or "File" for pages about uploaded media files. See this page
for a fuller discussion:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Namespaces
-mdh
On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 6:53 PM Ed Hertzog <edhertzog(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I am looking to query the API to get back a list
of all Wikimedia
projects and, hopefully, some relevant metadata.
My first question is, is 'namespace' the term used to describe a
Wikimedia project? Also, is there a query I can use to do that? I'm having
some issues finding that information in the documentation.
Thanks in advance,
Ed
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