On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 2:58 AM, Robert Crowe robert@ourwebhome.com wrote:
I think of this as a tree, even though I know it's a graph. If I send a query like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&page=Portal:Novels
The <links> element contains <pl> items in namespaces 0 (articles), 14 (categories), and 100 (portals). I interpret that as "Portal:Novels contains these items", meaning that in tree terms it is the parent of those items, or that those items "belong to Portal:Novels".
If I send a query like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?cmtitle=Category:Literature&action=que...
The <categories> element contains <cl> items that are the categories that contain Category:Literature, the parent categories. Similarly for pages.
So I'm able to list the categories that are the parents of a given category or page, but I can't seem to find a way to list the portals that are the parents of a given category or page. Is there a way to do that? Basically I'm just trying to navigate the tree.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=backlinks&bltitl...
(replace Voltaire by whichever page you're interested in)