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Chris Thomas — 2013-05-22T15:37:23

Hey, just wanted to share the fruits of some Mediawiki API work....

www.mapedia-uk.net

Try doing a search in the Historical types, such as British Prehistory or Roman Britain. Search for these in the UK and the locations you'll find there are Wikipedia articles that feature locations.

Still a WIP, with some teething problems in our system. But.. It does work :)

any feedback welcome,

Cheers 

Chris Thomas - Managing Director
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Re: Does anybody know what the meaning of rctype="external" in recent change list is

Brad Jorsch — 2013-05-20T01:31:52

You mean commons.wikimedia.org. The domain you mentioned does not
exist, and is a subdomain of some other site.


No. Although that's not a bad idea, if someone could figure out how to
make it happen.

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Re: Does anybody know what the meaning of rctype="external" in recent change list is

Jiang BIAN — 2013-05-19T08:05:59

What about changes on commons.media.org?
e.g. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArticleFoo uses
commons.media.org/wiki/File:Bar.jpg, when the image file is updated on
commons.media.org, will there be an "rc type=external" entry appears in
en's recentchange list?


Thanks


On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 6:37 AM, Brad Jorsch <bjorsch< at >wikimedia.org> wrote:

Re: Does anybody know what the meaning of rctype="external" in recent change list is

Brad Jorsch — 2013-05-15T13:37:23

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:47 PM, Mahmoud Hashemi
<mahmoudrhashemi< at >gmail.com> wrote:

That's right. When a change on Wikidata is made, it injects these
rctype="external" entries into the local wiki so that the Wikidata
changes can show up in the local Special:RecentChanges and
Special:Watchlist.

Re: Does anybody know what the meaning of rctype="external" in recent change list is

Mahmoud Hashemi — 2013-05-15T03:47:02

I'm not sure exactly what conditions trigger that flag, but I'm pretty sure
the reason you're seeing so many rctype="external" edits is that interwiki
links (usually links to the article in other languages), are now provided
by Wikidata.

So my guess as to your original question is that these are edits triggered
by some external factor changing, or made by an external entity (via AddBot
in Wikidata's case).

Mahmoud


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Does anybody know what the meaning of rctype="external" in recent change list is

Liu Chenheng — 2013-05-15T02:47:51

Hi, All,
Does anybody know what the meaning of rctype="external" in recent change
list is. I saw a lot of this type of changes.

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Re: Checking whether Real Name is enabled or not in a MediaWiki site

Alex Monk — 2013-05-10T15:20:10

Yes. If you request api.php?action=query&meta=userinfo&uiprop=realname and
get no 'realname' property back in the response, 'realname' is a hidden
preference.


On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Adrián Chaves Fernández <
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Checking whether Real Name is enabled or not in aMediaWiki site

Adrián Chaves Fernández — 2013-05-10T06:38:04

Is it possible to check through the MediaWiki API (or another non-interactive way) whether real names are enabled or not (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgHiddenPrefs) in a MediaWiki site?

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Re: Fwd: [Wikitech-l] APIStrat conference, San Francisco, October 23, 24, 25

Juliusz Gonera — 2013-05-08T23:57:05

More people replied on Wikitech-l and since this is not really 
cross-posted, but forwarded, let's continue the thread over there.


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Re: Fwd: [Wikitech-l] APIStrat conference, San Francisco, October 23, 24, 25

Sumana Harihareswara — 2013-05-08T17:47:33

Then please go ahead and propose something. :-)
-Sumana

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Re: Fwd: [Wikitech-l] APIStrat conference, San Francisco, October 23, 24, 25

Mahmoud Hashemi — 2013-05-08T17:44:37

I'm not sure what the expectations are about the panel, but I'm always
excited to talk Wikimedia APIs. :)


On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Sumana Harihareswara
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Re: Total number of pages in a namespace?

Mahmoud Hashemi — 2013-05-08T02:05:47

Sort of. There's a 'statistics' section available in action=query,
meta=siteinfo. See the bottom of this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=general|namespaces|statistics&format=jsonfm

There might be another way, but this is the easiest off the top of my head.

Mahmoud


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Total number of pages in a namespace?

Chux — 2013-05-08T01:33:55

Hi,

I was wondering if there is a way to know how many pages are inside a
namespace, for example how many pages are "Categories", or how many pages
are "Articles"?

Thanks,
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Fwd: [Wikitech-l] APIStrat conference, San Francisco, October 23, 24, 25

Sumana Harihareswara — 2013-05-07T21:35:41

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Wikitech-l] APIStrat conference, San Francisco, October 23, 24, 25
Date: Tue, 07 May 2013 14:33:40 -0700
From: Juliusz Gonera <jgonera< at >wikimedia.org>
Reply-To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l< at >lists.wikimedia.org>
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l< at >lists.wikimedia.org>

A friend of mine is co-organizing a conference about APIs. She asked me
if there is someone from Wikimedia or the community who would be
interested in participating. It will take place in Parc 55 Hotel in San
Francisco on October 23, 24, 25. A bit of information about the conference:

They'd like us to:

- talk about how much traffic we deal with, how do we do it, who uses
our API (or something similar that we think would be of general interest),
- participate in the "APIs in Government - Towards a Data Commons" panel
giving the perspective of a non-profit (they aim to have federal, state,
education, international, and non-profit representation in this panel).

Seems interesting. Is there any

Re: Fwd: first image of articles, sequential request

Petr Onderka — 2013-05-06T16:10:44

If you want to get pageimages for all results of search, you need to
execute search as a generator:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&generator=search&gsrsearch=francis%20picabia&format=jsonfm&prop=pageimages&pithumbsize=100&pilimit=20&gsroffset=10

Petr Onderka
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Re: Fwd: first image of articles,sequential request

Luigi Assom — 2013-05-06T15:41:01

Hello,

I have another question on pageimages:

I can't get it work with list=search:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=search&srsearch=francis%20picabia&format=jsonfm&prop=pageimages&pithumbsize=100&pilimit=20&continue&sroffset=10

could you please help in understanding if i am doing wrong smtg?
also, is there any planned release of api 2.0 ?
What about the legacy and normalization of continue parameters?

thank you!




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Re: Filtering protected templates when listing templates associated to a page

Petr Onderka — 2013-05-03T13:34:52

You can use prop=templates as a generator and then ask for
prop=info&inprop=protection to get the protection information about each
template:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=query&pageids=199445&generator=templates&gtllimit=500&prop=info&inprop=protection

Petr Onderka
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Re: Filtering protected templates when listing templates associated to a page

Brad Jorsch — 2013-05-03T13:34:39

There is no way to filter them out such that they aren't returned from
the query. But you can easily enough retrieve the protection
information for each of the returned templates by using templates as a
generator, so you can filter them out on the client side:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&generator=templates&format=json&gtllimit=500&pageids=199445&prop=info&inprop=protection

Filtering protected templates when listingtemplates associated to a page

Chux — 2013-05-03T06:04:33

Hi guys,

I am trying to retrieve the templates associated to a page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=templates&format=json&tllimit=500&pageids=199445

So in this scenario, I am able to get a list, but I noticed some of the
listed templates here are marked as protected. I am not able to see any
attribute in the results that shows this flag.

Any ideas on how can I filter those out?

Thanks,
Chux
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Re: [Mediawiki-api-announce] Echo breaksmeta=userinfo&uiprop=hasmsg

Brad Jorsch — 2013-05-03T00:34:47

To clarify: this affects only wikis with Echo enabled, currently
mediawiki.org, en.wikipedia.org, test.wikipedia.org, and
test2.wikipedia.org (and any third-party wikis using the extension).


On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Brad Jorsch <bjorsch< at >wikimedia.org> wrote:

[Mediawiki-api-announce] Echo breaksmeta=userinfo&uiprop=hasmsg

Brad Jorsch — 2013-05-03T00:09:07

If your bot checks meta=userinfo&uiprop=hasmsg to determine if a talk
page message has been posted in order to stop running, it is currently
broken since Echo disables that along with the orange bar.

This issue is being tracked at
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47962