Why FR.wikipedia in second link?)

2010/12/7 Nicolas Vervelle nvervelle@gmail.com

Hi,

I made a few attempts but didn't success to use the API with page titles containing a & in them. I tried replacing it with %26 in the request but it seems to work only for some requests...

For example, the following request seems to work: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Rollin' %26 Coastin' (In Search of America)&prop=info&inprop=protection|talkidhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Rollin'%20%26%20Coastin'%20(In%20Search%20of%20America)&prop=info&inprop=protection%7Ctalkid I get the informations about page "Rollin' & Coastin' (In Search of America)"

But, the following request tells that the page is missing

http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?rvprop=content%7Cids%7Ctimestamp&inpro...http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?rvprop=content%7Cids%7Ctimestamp&inprop=protection&prop=revisions%7Cinfo&action=query&titles=Rollin' %26 Coastin' (In Search of America) The requests says that page "Rollin' & Coastin' (In Search of America)" is missing

Am I missing something or is there a bug in the API ?

Thanks, Nico

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2010/12/7 Nicolas Vervelle nvervelle@gmail.com:

http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?rvprop=content%7Cids%7Ctimestamp&inpro...' %26 Coastin' (In Search of America) The requests says that page "Rollin' & Coastin' (In Search of America)" is missing Am I missing something or is there a bug in the API ?

You're missing that the API is really giving you a & back there, but it gets XML-encoded to & . Do the same request with &format=jsonfm or something and you'll see a plain & .

Roan Kattouw (Catrope)