mediawiki-api Questions

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I can get easily a dump with all the titles in the wiktionary, but this dump contains every word, even non-English ones. For example, you find souris (mousein French): https://en.wiktionary.org/wi...
Lilialiliaceous asked 18/3, 2013 at 12:45

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I'd like to write a script that gets the Wikipedia description section only. That is, when I say /wiki bla bla bla it will go to the Wikipedia page for bla bla bla, get the following, and return...
Northern asked 15/12, 2010 at 16:9

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How may Wiktionary's API be used to determine whether or not a word exists?
Synge asked 5/5, 2010 at 4:5

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Task: We have Wikipedia English page and need to retrieve the same page address in Russian. I know the Semantic Web solution - use simple query to DbPedia, but I am curious whether there are tradi...
Dougherty asked 10/11, 2010 at 10:56

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Anyone know how to get the number of revisions of a wikipedia page using mediawiki API? I have read this API documentation, but can't find the related API: Revision API
Conde asked 21/8, 2011 at 4:24

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I am trying to get a list of all wikipedia title without redirects. They say that they have about 6,410k articles. I tried to get a list though https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/latest/ and the fi...
Willhite asked 19/1, 2022 at 20:16

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I'd like to obtain a list of all the titles of all Wikipedia articles. I know there are two possible ways to get content from a Wikimedia powered wiki. One would be the API and the other one would ...
Mailable asked 29/6, 2014 at 8:10

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I want to know: is there any API or a query interface through which I can access Wikipedia data?
Busse asked 9/9, 2009 at 6:54

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I try to get all seperate sections of a wikipedia article through the api. I know already : Howto retrieve a complete text : http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&am...
Musette asked 28/11, 2014 at 17:38

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I've made an android app that uses the JSON Google image search API to provide images but I have noticed that Google have stopped supporting it. I have also discovered that Wikidata sometimes provi...

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I want to search Wikipedia using the query action. I am using this URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&list=search&srsearch=apple That works, but I want to g...
Ingunna asked 13/12, 2014 at 10:46

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I have a set of full urls like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Episkopi_Bay http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Lauro http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lampedusa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himera http://...

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Is it possible to download images from Wikipedia with MediaWiki API?
Seismic asked 19/9, 2012 at 17:38

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I'm querying the MediaWiki API to get Wikipedia data into my Filemaker database. When I load the data into a browser, the characters show up properly but when it comes into Filemaker, characters wi...
Caddie asked 7/3, 2013 at 22:38

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Is there any package for R that allows querying Wikipedia (most probably using Mediawiki API) to get list of available articles relevant to such query, as well as import selected articles for text ...
Flexure asked 23/5, 2011 at 10:28

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Wikidata has an item called smartphone model. I want to get all instances of it. QUESTION: How to get the identifiers of the instances programmatically, using the live server? Preferably not incl...
Rarebit asked 27/4, 2015 at 2:48

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I'm trying to write a python program that can search wikipedia for the birth and death dates for people. For example, Albert Einstein was born: 14 March 1879; died: 18 April 1955. I started with...
Bumbailiff asked 3/9, 2012 at 15:24

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For example using this Wikipedia dump: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=lebron%20james&rvprop=content&redirects=true&format=xmlfm Is there ...

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I'm trying to query all images of cats (as an example) from Wikimedia Commons. The way I thought about going about this is first search for the Cat page which is here (I don't know how to find thi...
Franklyn asked 1/5, 2016 at 21:26

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I would like get meaning of selected word using wikionary API. Content retrieve data should be the same as is presented in "Word of the day", only the basic meaning without etympology, Synonyms et...
Endoscope asked 14/11, 2010 at 0:42

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I am trying to use the wikimedia API for wiki commons at: http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php It seems like the commons API is very immature and the part at their document that mentions the p...
Exceedingly asked 17/9, 2011 at 8:55

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For each concept of my dataset I have stored the corresponding wikipedia categories. For example, consider the following 5 concepts and their corresponding wikipedia categories. hypertriglyceride...

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Hello I'm using Curl to get information from Wikipedia,and I want to receive only information about the principal image,I don't want to receive all images of an article.. For example.. If I want to...
Nalley asked 27/8, 2012 at 18:57

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I'm trying to extract interlanguage related articles in Wikidata dump. After searching on the internet, I found out there is a tool named Wikidata Toolkit that helps to work with these type of data...

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I'm quite new to MediaWiki, and now I have a bit of a problem. I have the title of some Wiki page, and I want to get just the text of a said page using api.php, but all that I have found in the API...
Falconiform asked 26/10, 2009 at 14:32

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