Hello,
I am writing a Java program to extract the abstract of the wikipedia page
given the title of the wikipedia page. I have done some research and found
out that the abstract with be in rvsection=0
So for example if I want the abstract of 'Eiffel Tower" wiki page then I am
querying using the api in the following way.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=Eiffel…
and parse the XML data which we get and take the wikitext in the tag <rev
xml:space="preserve"> which represents the abstract of the wikipedia page.
But this wiki text also contains the infobox data which I do not need. I
would like to know if there is anyway in which I can remove the infobox data
and get only the wikitext related to the page's abstract Or if there is any
alternative method by which I can get the abstract of the page directly.
Looking forward to your help.
Thanks in Advance
Aditya Uppu
i'm trying to run this query from my .net code and i'm getting 403 Forbidden message, this was working fro me last month i tested it.
WebClient cleint = new WebClient();
cleint.BaseAddress = "http://en.wikipedia.org/";
string url = @"w/api.php?action=query&list=categorymembers&cmtitle=Category:Physics";
string htmlCode = cleint.DownloadString(url); //This is where i get the Exception.
Any Idea Guys?
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Hi, guys,
Currently, I am working on a Wiki Project, I am trying to track some wiki
users' operation, like logging, and how long they spend on the wiki by
patrolling etc.
So is there any indicator I can get these cues? I collected the
recentchanges and logevents, but I think these are not enough.
Anyone knows this?
thanks,
Marc
Hello there!
I'm a Flash Video Game Developer working on a word based game. I stumbled
across the MediaWiki API component during my research and I've been testing
it locally in the game to retrieve word definitions and displaying them in
the game for the player. In general, everything works great locally, but
there's a few odd issues that I'd like to get worked out, if possible.
I actually posted my questions on the MediaWiki forums last night, but just
realized that the API specifically requests that questions be sent to this
email address. The link below goes to my post on the forums and the
suggestions a moderator, Skizzerz, has already provided.
http://www.mwusers.com/forums/showthread.php?14641-Questions-about-the-Medi…
Any help you may be able to provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for
this great component. It's been fairly simple to use so far.
Aaron.
EduGameDev
As an example:
The following query:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=opensearch&search=Berlin&format=xml
returns 10 results, one of them:
<Item>
<Text xml:space="preserve">Berlin S-Bahn</Text>
<Description xml:space="preserve">The Berlin S-Bahn is a rapid transit system operated by S-Bahn Berlin GmbH, a subsidiary of the Deutsche Bahn. </Description>
<Url xml:space="preserve">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_S-Bahn</Url>
<Image source="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/S-Bahn-Logo.svg/50…" width="50" height="50" />
</Item>
has the aforementioned image tag.
> I'm
> guessing whatever's showing you these images is using some heuristic
> like finding the first image on the page and showing you that.
I think so as well. I can confirm though that it is not always returning the first image on a page. Furthermore there are some pages with images, that do not return image tags in the corresponding opensearch result.
I would be interested in taking a look at the code that is generating the image tags in the opensearch results, but I have absolutly no idea where I should search for the code.
Best
Mad_Chom
> 2010/4/14 Madam Chomsky <madamchomsky at yahoo.de>:
> > Hi
> > Hope I am posting to the correct list.
> >
> > I am doing an opensearch query via the api (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=opensearch&search=Te). Some search results come with a tiny thumbnail image link. I would like to know if the thumbnails are defined when someone is creating a wikipedia page or if there is some kind of algorithm that automatically creates these thumbnails. Would be glad about any information about this matter.
> >
> The opensearch result itself just contains page titles, no images. I'm
> guessing whatever's showing you these images is using some heuristic
> like finding the first image on the page and showing you that.
>
> Roan Kattouw (Catrope)
hello friends,
I want to parse the word definition from wikitionary. but I do not
understand which parameter will used for it. please help me about this.
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Subject: Call limit
Hi -
We have implemented the WikiHow data to our search results on our LeapFish
Product (www.leapfish.com) via the MediaWiki API and unfortunately we seem
to have hit the maximum call limit and/or our IP has been confused with
SPAM. I'm not sure what the call limit is or where I can go to request an
increase but is there anyway we can remove the limit or whitelist our IP?
LeapFish is a fairly high traffic site. Please advise. Thank you for the
help.
Below is a current call example:
http://www.wikihow.com/api.php?action=query
<http://www.wikihow.com/api.php?action=query&list=search&srsearch=%22+ride+a
+bike%22&sroffset=0&format=xml&srlimit=4>
&list=search&srsearch=%22+ride+a+bike%22&sroffset=0&format=xml&srlimit=4
Would it help if we passed user information? If so how we would we pass it?
My login is behzadb
The request is coming from the following IP:
208.48.87.2
Behzad B.
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Hi
Hope I am posting to the correct list.
I am doing an opensearch query via the api (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=opensearch&search=Te). Some search results come with a tiny thumbnail image link. I would like to know if the thumbnails are defined when someone is creating a wikipedia page or if there is some kind of algorithm that automatically creates these thumbnails. Would be glad about any information about this matter.
Thanks,
Linnart
