Hi Doris,
as you can see here https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=Zayn+Malik, the article was actually deleted multiple times. But it was also restored and recreated.
It was definitely deleted, but: * Deletion is not always permanent. Articles can be restored (e.g. after revisiting a decision). * Deletion does not necessarily prohibit recreation. The reasons for deletion may not apply to future version (for example, notability for living persons may change) * Deletion does not necessarily mean it was a 'bad article': sometimes an article was created twice and needs to be merged, or a redirect is being deleted in order to make place for the 'real article'. * As WSC mentioned, a removal of content is also possible through other means than a 'deletion' (e.g. replace the article with a redirect).
It depends a bit on your desired definition of 'deleted' how to approach this.
Best, Lodewijk
On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 11:11 AM D Z doriszhou1224@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Adam,
It seems that the issue is the apostrophe after "L", in the wikidata
query it is "´" and the wikipedia link above uses "'".
I see, a lof of the issues were caused by my string mishandling.
One approach you might consider is to download the entire log
history, then process it locally to filter by page ID.
I am still unclear on how to know definitely for sure that an article was deleted. It seems like the only way is to tell through the comments. For example, this call:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=logevents&leact... shows the comment "[[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Louis Tomlinson]]" which I have noticed to exist for other articles that were successfully deleted, but the article "Zayn Malik" exists. The most recent event has the comment "[[WP:CSD#G6|G6]]: Deleted to make way for move" which would imply the other deletions weren't successful but the article still exists.
Thanks,
Doris
On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 3:20 AM Adam Wight adam.wight@wikimedia.de wrote:
On 11/4/21 8:09 AM, D Z wrote:
Hi Adam,
Thanks for your reply. The qitem api returns missing for this article
but
the article exists:
https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&format=json&...
The Wikipedia page link https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playas_de_L%27Atalaya_y_Focar%C3%B3n
is
here.
It seems that the issue is the apostrophe after "L", in the wikidata query it is "´" and the wikipedia link above uses "'". Maybe something in your query script is normalizing the fancy apostrophe to a simple one? I would check for proper UTF-8 handling.
Would you know if there is a way to input article revision ID or pageid instead of source title for the logevents API? The strings seem to be problematic at times.
This was prescient :-). But I don't see any record of the article being deleted, so perhaps the API is correct in this case?
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log?type=&user=&page=Rodrigo+F... https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log?type=&user=&page=Rodrigo+Flores+%C3%81lvarez&wpdate=&tagfilter=
<
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log?type=&user=&page=Rodrigo+F...
Unfortunately, the API help page doesn't mention filtering the log by page ID. One approach you might consider is to download the entire log history, then process it locally to filter by page ID.
Help page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Blogevent...
Regards, Adam W. [[mw:User:Adamw]
For example, the article 'Rodrigo Flores Álvarez' of 'pt' Wikipedia gives me trouble (I got this article from the
cxtranslation
list). This page seems to be missing https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodrigo_Flores_%C3%81lvarez and
perhaps
I
am not using the logevents API correctly, but it returns empty.
{'batchcomplete': '', 'query': {'logevents': []}}
endpoint = str('pt') + '.wikipedia.org/w/api.php' query_url = "https://%7B0%7D%22.format(endpoint) params = {} params['action'] = 'query' params['list'] = 'logevents' params['format'] = 'json' params['leaction'] = 'delete/delete' params['letitle'] = 'Rodrigo Flores Álvarez' json_response = requests.get(url=query_url, params=params).json()
Thanks again and cheers,
Doris Zhou
On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 9:51 AM Adam Wight adam.wight@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&letit...
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,
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