Feature Requests item #1993062, was opened at 2008-06-13 16:47 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by xqt You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=603141&aid=1993062...

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Private: No Submitted By: Melancholie (melancholie) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Use API module 'parse' for retrieving interwiki links

Initial Comment: Currently pages are retrieved in a batch by using Special:Export. Although being fast (as only one request is done), there is a huge data overhead with this method!

Why not use the API with its 'parse' module? Only interwiki links can be fetched with that, reducing traffic (overhead) a lot!

See: http://de.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&format=xml&page=Test&...

Outputs could be downloaded in parallel to virtualize a batch (faster).

---- At least make this method optional (config.py) for being able of reducing data traffic, if wanted. API is just more efficient.

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Comment By: xqt (xqt)

Date: 2010-09-21 18:35

Message: parse mode is deactivated due to overloading the squids. Nothing to do now.

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Comment By: Multichill (multichill) Date: 2008-11-13 12:46

Message: We are working on a rewrite. The rewrite uses the api as much as possible.

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Comment By: Melancholie (melancholie) Date: 2008-06-15 01:27

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See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Interwiki_bot_access_protocol concerning disambiguations and redirects:

http://de.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&format=xml&text=%7B%7...

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Comment By: Melancholie (melancholie) Date: 2008-06-14 16:38

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Backwards compatibility?

That's no reason for not making software more efficient, where possible ;-) That's also why I wrote something about "optional", too. Because for current MediaWiki wikis there is a much more efficient way of retrieving (only) certain contents (langlinks, categories), there should be a method of using that advantage! Will reduce load (bot owner's and server's)...

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Comment By: Bryan (btongminh) Date: 2008-06-13 20:44

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Backwards compatibility with non Wikimedia wikis?

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Comment By: Melancholie (melancholie) Date: 2008-06-13 17:20

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For not being misusable of confusing bots, the yet to be set up MediaWiki message could contain [[foreigncode:{{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}}]] (cache issue?)

(sorry for spamming with this request ;-)

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Comment By: Melancholie (melancholie) Date: 2008-06-13 17:08

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Important note for getting pages' interwikis in a batch: http://de.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&text=%7B%7B:Test%7D%7D%7B...

Either the bot could figure out what interwikis belong together then, or

maybe a marker could placed in between: http://de.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&text=%7B%7B:Test%7D%7D%7B...

[[MediaWiki:Iwmarker]] (or 'Llmarker'?) would have to be set up by the MediaWiki developers with [[en:/de:Abuse-save-mark]] as content (but this is potentially misusable).

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Comment By: Melancholie (melancholie) Date: 2008-06-13 16:51

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Note: Maybe combine it with 'generator'.

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