[Mediawiki-api] MediaWiki API and Chinese language variants

[Andrew Dunbar]

On 19/01/2008, Jan Hecking <jhecking at yahoo-inc.com> wrote:
> To follow up on this somewhat old thread: I finally got around to
> actually testing Paolo's suggestion of using the index.php API instead
> of api.php. Turns out it doesn't actually work. While the index.php API
> does have a variant parameter that allows to select one of the Chinese
> language variants (e.g. zh, zh-hk, zh-tw) it does not actually honor
> this parameter when combined with action=raw. When returning the raw
> Wiki markup it always returns the same variant (zh?) no matter what
> variant is specified.
>
> $ curl -s
> "http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E8%A5%BF%E6%81%A9%E5%A1%94&action=raw&variant=zh-cn"
>  > zh-cn
> $ curl -s
> "http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E8%A5%BF%E6%81%A9%E5%A1%94&action=raw&variant=zh-tw"
>  > zh-tw
> $ diff zh-cn zh-tw
>
> diff shows that the markup returned is identical. With action=view (the
> default) the output is clearly different.
>
> So it looks like there is actually no way to get the raw markup in
> different language variants?

This is definitely a bug. I can verify that the variants work with
action=render but not with
action=raw. Please file a bug report on bugzilla.

Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail)


> Thanks,
> Jan
>
>
> On 12/13/2007 6:45 PM, Jan Hecking wrote:
> > On 12/13/2007 11:28 PM, Paolo Liberatore wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Jan Hecking wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> On 12/13/2007 1:04 AM, Roan Kattouw wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Jan Hecking schreef:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Is it possible to retrieve content in different Chinese language
> >>>>> variants using the /w/api.php API? There doesn't seem to be a variant or
> >>>>> language parameter that would allow selecting a variant like "zh-tw" or
> >>>>> "zh-hk". Is there some other way to do this?
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>> How is this done in the regular user interface, then?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> I would like to know that as well. :)
> >>>
> >>> My suspicion is that the user interface, i.e. the frontend servers, do
> >>> the conversion. Which would mean that all users of the MediaWiki API
> >>> would have to replicate that work. That would severely limit the use of
> >>> the API for Chinese language content IMHO. But then I don't know much
> >>> about MediaWiki yet and maybe I have just missed something obvious.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Jan
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >> There is a "variant" parameter in
> >> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Parameters_to_index.php
> >> I believe it's only used for Chinese.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Thanks for the reminder, Paolo! I hadn't considered index.php before
> > because I assumed it only returns the rendered HTML markup. But now I
> > saw that there is an action=raw parameter which returns the raw wiki
> > markup that I'm looking for. However this API has one other drawback: In
> > contrast to api.php it doesn't have an option to resolve redirects
> > automatically. When calling api.php I was using the redirects parameter
> > to do so but this doesn't seem to be supported by index.php when using
> > action=raw (only for action=view). That means I would potentially have
> > to make multiple calls to resolve redirects manually. Or is there a way
> > to avoid this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jan
> >
>
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