On 23-Apr-14 21:29, wikitech-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
Re: API attribute ID for querying wikipedia pages
@Matma Rex: This is way to general, I think it would be a lot better
when this would be in more detail. For example when I want to fetch a
table with all currencies on
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_circulating_currencies, I would
make an API call like
this:https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&page=List%20of%20c…ormat=jsonfm.
This returns 5 sections with "numbers" which I can use as reference
points, but I would rather have a "number" for the table in the section.
A section can have multiple tables.
Querying specific (structured) data from Wikipedia is still very
difficult in my opinion. My suggestion is that every paragraph, image,
link and table get a unique identifiable number. This way Wikipedia gets
more machine readable.