Would that be reversable? where inprop=talkid would return the talk page id if the page given is a main page, and inprop=mainid would return the main page if a talk page is given?

The other question that comes to mind is - would this work in other spaces? Like template-space or category-space?

Thanks! --Ian

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Roan Kattouw roan.kattouw@home.nl wrote:

Ian Cabell schreef:

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I don't know if others run in to this situation, but I'll throw this idea/request out there and see what folks think.

A lot of what I use the API for is for WikiProjects. As such, I'm often getting a list of pages by looking for a project template, which is on the talk page. Then I have to turn that around and get the actual articles from main-space.

So I was wondering about way to get the "switch" of a page id. The two possibilities I thought of are:

action=query&prop=info&inprop=talkid&pageids=15580374

action=query&prop=revisions&titles=Talk:Main%20Page&rvprop=mainid

Either one would take a page or set of pages and return either the talk page id or the mainspace id.

Is this something that's doable? Desired? Thoughts?

The inprop=talkid suggestion sounds doable, I'll implement that soon.

Roan Kattouw (Catrope)

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Ian Cabell wrote:

Would that be reversable? where inprop=talkid would return the talk page id if the page given is a main page, and inprop=mainid would return the main page if a talk page is given?

The other question that comes to mind is - would this work in other spaces? Like template-space or category-space?

Thanks! --Ian

Instead of mainid, it should be subjectid, for consistence with the magic words {{TALKSPACE}} and {{SUBJECTSPACE}} ({{ARTICLESPACE}} is an alias for {{SUBJECTSPACE}}, but articleid would be too ambiuous).