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Related to the use of the MediaWiki API on Wikipedia. Consider also the tags [wikipedia] if your question isn't about the API or [mediawiki-api] if your question isn't about Wikipedia.

Documentation for the API is available at mediawiki.org; a summary of all available parameters and short help is available by accessing the API endpoint on the wiki.

In addition, there is a REST API that allows fetching commonly used data in a simple format. A list of all endpoints can be found in the REST API Documentation.

Please make sure to read the etiquette for best practices for using the API and general usage guidelines.

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How to get Wikidata ID for an Wikipedia article by API?

How to obtain Wikidata ID from English Wikipedia article name, also for redirects? Is there API call? Example: Karachi >> Q8660 Karaachi >> Q8660 How to approach changes in assignment? Now Media in Karachi is redirect to Media of Pakistan (Wikidata…
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How to group wikipedia categories in python?

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. hypertriglyceridemia: ['Category:Lipid metabolism disorders',…
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How to get Wikipedia page from Wikidata Id?

How to get Wikipedia page (in a particular language, say French) from the Wikidata Id (ex: Q19675)? The question seems obvious but strangely, I find nothing on the web. I'm looking for a url command that I could use with requests Python module,…
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How to use Wikipedia API to get the page view statistics of a particular page in wikipedia?

The stats.grok.se tool provides the pageview statistics of a particular page in wikipedia. Is there a method to use the wikipedia api to get the same information? What does the page views counter property actually mean?
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Parsing a Wikipedia dump

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 an existing library for Python that I can use to create an array with the…
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Wikipedia Category Hierarchy from dumps

Using Wikipedia's dumps I want to build a hierarchy for its categories. I have downloaded the main dump (enwiki-latest-pages-articles) and the category SQL dump (enwiki-latest-category). But I can't find the hierarchy information. For example, the…
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Retrieving image license and author information in wiki commons

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 possibility to retrieve license and author information…
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How do I get all articles about people from Wikipedia?

What would be the easiest way to get all articles about people from Wikipedia? I know I can download a dump of all the pages, but then how do I filter those and get only the ones about people? I need as many as I can get (preferably more than a…
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Wikipedia API - get random page(s)

I'm trying to get a JSON result with a set of random pages from Wikipedia, including their titles, content and images. I've played around with their API sandbox, and so far the best I've got is…
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How to download images programmatically from Wikimedia Commons without registering for a Bot account?

It seems like the only way to get approval for a Bot account is if it adds to or edits information already on Wikimedia. If you try to download any images, without a bot account, using some of the api libraries out there you get error messages…
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Wikipedia API for python

I am trying to see the table of contents in a wikipedia page using Wikipedia API for python. Here is my code. >>> import wikipedia >>> ny = wikipedia.page("New York") >>> ny.sections But I am getting an empty list [] as the result. When I go to the…
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get Thumbnail image from wikimedia commons

I do have a filename from wikimedia commons and I want to access the thumbnail-image directly. Example: Tour_Eiffel_Wikimedia_Commons.jpg I found a way to get json-data containing the url to the thumbnail I…
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Freebase / DBpedia / wikidata.org -- differences

I'm looking to enhance several "objects" in my application with human-readable data. To that end, I've seen Freebase, DBpedia and wikidata.org, and am currently working with Freebase. I can't help but wonder, though, what I am missing. So: what's…
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Wikipedia Mediawiki API get Pageid from URL

I have a set of full urls…
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Limits of the Wikipedia API

I read that wikipedia's API is called MediaWiki. My question is regarding this API. Does this API have a maximum of calls per day/ hours / minutes ? I can't seem to find it.
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