API

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Data Retrieval

Articles

article_mw ( string lemma )

article_mw() returns a single article from a wiki in the original Mediawiki syntax

article_xml ( string lemma )

article_xml returns a single article from a wiki in xml output

article_section_mw ( string lemma, int section)

returns a single section from a single article from a wiki in the original mediawiki syntax. section is the same as section in the edit option

Search

• list of articles that contain string query
• size of an article (chars, bytes, words)
• list of authors of an article (ugly to compute when it comes to articles with 1000+ revisions)

Wikimania API discussion

Basic needs

• readrevision
  • out: -return speacial:Export and preferably metadata about redirect
  • in: - article title / revision ID / page ID

• readhistory
  • in: artile title or pageID, rangestart, rangeend

range can be, ISO date or timestamp, if negative rangestart, fetch last rangestartrevisions

bounded by a maximum amount of revisions: currently: 5000