Re: [Mediawiki-api] Reg: Extracting the main article for a Category on Wikipedia

It looks like that is just a template on the category page: {{Cat main|Cricket}} which is described here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cat_main So it's just text on the page, not part of any database structure. In other words, it's part of wikipedia's particular content/structure -- not mediawiki -- so it's not going to be in the API. The primary data structure for mediawiki is… unstructured text, which makes things like this a bit of a challenge. :) You could pull the contents of the page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cricket?action=raw and look for {{Cat On Jun 20, 2013, at 1:38 PM, Pavan Kapanipathi &lt;pavan(a)knoesis.org&gt; wrote: Is there a way (ex: API - params) to get the main article for a category on wikipedia. For example, The Category page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cricket has content "The main article for this category<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Categories>is *Cricket <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket>*." I need to retrieve the article *Cricket. * In the above example, It is just a co-incidence that the category name and the article name are the same. I looked through the API (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php) but didnt find anything relevant. Am I missing something? Thanks and Regards, Pavan Kapanipathi _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api