On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Siteshwar Vashisht siteshwar@gmail.com wrote:

Hi,

Right now I'm using this query to fetch image information:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=File:Navenby.jpg&a...

but iiprop does not have any description parameter. How can I fetch image description from Wikimedia Commons? Like this one:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Navenby.jpg

Get the contents of the description page, like so:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=File:Navenby....

Of course that does require that you figure out whether the file is on Commons or on the local wiki, but you can tell by imagerepository="shared" in the imageinfo result.

Roan Kattouw (Catrope)