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

login
- in: username, passwd, API key
- out: success or auth failure or temp failure

Dates need to be in UTC Dates need to be ISO 8601 Date = 0 means current revision

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

readhistory
- in: artile title or pageID, rangestart, +- limit
  range can be, ISO date or timestamp, if negative rangestart, fetch last rangestartrevisions bounded by a maximum amount of revisions: currently: 5000
  always return up to 5000 revisions
- out: export xml metadata (see readrevision)

writeArticle
- in: lastRevisionID or 0, pagetext, pagetitle, comment, minor
- out: success(versionID), edit conflict fail, permission failure, temp failure