Hi Doris,
If you look at the links for some examples you may find that much of the
difference is articles that are redirected. Sometimes redirected and merged.
Non notable fictional characters are usually redirected to the article on
the film or book they come from. If you look at the history of the redirect
you may well find an article.
WSC
On Wed, 27 Oct 2021 at 15:50, Adam Wight <adam.wight(a)wikimedia.de> wrote:
The "logevents" API should return the same
data as Special:Log. For
example,
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=logevents&letiā¦
This can be filtered further to just delete events, and so on.
But if you only want to know whether an article exists or not, "missing"
should be accurate. Can you share some example URLs for which the page
exists, but the API returns "missing"?
Kind regards,
Adam W.
On 10/27/21 3:40 AM, D Z wrote:
Hello All,
I am doing research investigating the role of machine translation in
Wikipedia articles. I am having trouble with how to know if an article
has
been deleted from Wikipedia. Specifically, I am
getting a list of
articles
from the cxtranslation list and I would like to
know which articles are
no
longer on Wikipedia. I see that there is the
deletion log form
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/delete> but is there an API
or
some way to access something like this form so I
could check if a mass
amount of articles have been deleted?
I have used the Media Wiki API <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php> to
get
articles and the API returns missing for some
articles, but this does not
seem to be fully accurate for determining if an article has been deleted
because the API has returned 'missing' for articles that do exist.
To summarize, my main question is: given an article language edition and
article title, or an article pageid, is there an API to check if the
article has been deleted?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Doris Zhou
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