Hi,
I hope that I am hitting the correct list with this - my apologies if not.
I am interested in finding all the pages within a wiki (actually wikipedia) that make use of a particular template. The template in question is the Taxobox (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Taxobox#Taxoboxes).
I want to build a list of taxonomic treatments globally and it would be great to be able to point at each of the pages in wikipedia that are intended to be an accounts of species and match these up with other treatments of the same species on other websites.
Unfortunately I can't find a way through the API of getting a list of pages that use a particular template. This may be because I am misunderstanding something or it may not be possible. Some pages follow of convention of using the latin name of the species as the title but others don't. Good pages tend to always have a Taxobox on them though.
I'd be most grateful if some one could point me in the direction of more resources on this topic.
Many thanks,
Roger
What about http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=embeddedin&eitit... ? =) It lists all the pages including Template:Taxobox, pretty much like http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Tax...
2008/11/6 Roger Hyam rogerhyam@mac.com:
Hi,
I hope that I am hitting the correct list with this - my apologies if not.
I am interested in finding all the pages within a wiki (actually wikipedia) that make use of a particular template. The template in question is the Taxobox (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Taxobox#Taxoboxes).
I want to build a list of taxonomic treatments globally and it would be great to be able to point at each of the pages in wikipedia that are intended to be an accounts of species and match these up with other treatments of the same species on other websites.
Unfortunately I can't find a way through the API of getting a list of pages that use a particular template. This may be because I am misunderstanding something or it may not be possible. Some pages follow of convention of using the latin name of the species as the title but others don't. Good pages tend to always have a Taxobox on them though.
I'd be most grateful if some one could point me in the direction of more resources on this topic.
Many thanks,
Roger
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Thank you very much. I didn't understand the way embeddedin worked with templates but now I am enlightened.
Just what I was looking for - made my day!
Roger
On 6 Nov 2008, at 13:59, Nicolas Dumazet wrote:
What about http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=embeddedin&eitit... ? =) It lists all the pages including Template:Taxobox, pretty much like http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Tax...
2008/11/6 Roger Hyam rogerhyam@mac.com:
Hi,
I hope that I am hitting the correct list with this - my apologies if not.
I am interested in finding all the pages within a wiki (actually wikipedia) that make use of a particular template. The template in question is the Taxobox (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Taxobox#Taxoboxes).
I want to build a list of taxonomic treatments globally and it would be great to be able to point at each of the pages in wikipedia that are intended to be an accounts of species and match these up with other treatments of the same species on other websites.
Unfortunately I can't find a way through the API of getting a list of pages that use a particular template. This may be because I am misunderstanding something or it may not be possible. Some pages follow of convention of using the latin name of the species as the title but others don't. Good pages tend to always have a Taxobox on them though.
I'd be most grateful if some one could point me in the direction of more resources on this topic.
Many thanks,
Roger
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On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 12:28 AM, Roger Hyam rogerhyam@mac.com wrote:
Thank you very much. I didn't understand the way embeddedin worked with templates but now I am enlightened.
I believe that it means any templates that are included into another template file, eg: you have the WPBannerMeta template and then you include it on subsequent WP banners to make it easier to make them look the same and to be styled the same. (I'm using WPBannerMeta as an example since i don't know what the Taxobox one is like)
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