On 23-Apr-14 21:29, wikitech-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org wrote: @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%20circulating%20currencies&prop=sections&format=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.

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On 23-Apr-14 21:29, wikitech-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org wrote: @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%20circulating%20currencies&prop=sections&format=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. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l