[Mediawiki-api] MediaWiki API and Chinese language variants

[Platonides]

Jan Hecking 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?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jan

I think it's due there's only one raw markup. The variant is chosen 
later for display. So you should locally perform that work (you'll need 
some Mediawiki: messages).