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 <pavan@knoesis.org> 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 is 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

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