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Questions tagged [wikipedia]

Consider the tags wikipedia-api (or the more general mediawiki-api) and mediawiki. Questions should be related to programming.

Source: Wikipedia

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, is a free web-based encyclopedia project written and maintained by people all over the world and is one of the most visited websites in the world(1,2). Consider also the tags,

  • if your question has to do with the use of the API on Wikipedia
  • if your question has to do with the use of the API on general Mediawiki sites
  • if your question has to do with the MediaWiki software.
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Is there anyway I can get simple HTML of a page but with images and links?

With this query: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=xml&action=query&prop=extracts&titles=aristotle&redirects=true I get the page in its simplest HTML form. Really basic stuff. But what I really want is to also get the images and links in…
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Wikipedia API: Get revisions by timeframe

I'm trying to figure out how to get all of the page revisions for a specified timeframe. I have created a python script which allows me to get the last 100 revisions, but I don't see anything that allows me to specify a timeframe. I do see the…
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SPARQL: retrieve all the info from DBpedia from a URI

If I want to retrieve the abstract from a URI, I do the following: PREFIX dbp_owl: SELECT DISTINCT ?abstract WHERE { dbp_owl:abstract ?abstract…
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Wikipedia API to get articles belonging to a category

I would like to get a number of pages belonging to a specific category, say sports and politics. I would like to extract various sections from the pages, such as abstract, title, etc. Is there an API to do that? If not, are there any Wikipedia dumps…
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How to extract metadata of a word from Wikipedia?

I am trying to automate hyper parameter tuning of my model classifier. Currently, the classifier spits out a probability for a given word, if its a food item or not. For…
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Wikipedia embedded in WinForms App Tutorial

Can anyone post a tutorial here on how to show a Wikipedia article in a .NET WinForms application (C# or VB)? If the article can be placed in a string it suffices, there`s no need to put it on any control. I found some information on Wikipedia's…
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Prompt "Missing node v0.10 and/or higher and npm 1.4 or higher" while running wikipedia ios project

I'm trying to follow the wikipedia ios project at https://github.com/wikimedia/apps-ios-wikipedia/ and I'm having problem while running "make get-deps". I always got the prompt of "Missing node v0.10 and/or higher and npm 1.4 or higher", but I do…
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How do I get the pageid from a Wikipedia page?

In a Flask app, or even better just using wikipedia APIs, how can I get the pageid from a Wikipedia url? I mean from this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_Overflow to this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21721040 From the API sandbox I can…
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Wikipedia views to the match trading days

I have data for Wikipedia page views like this library(wikipediatrend) views <-wp_trend(page = "European debt crisis",from = "2010-01-01",to = "2014-12-31",lang = "en",friendly = TRUE,requestFrom = "wp.trend.tester at wptt.wptt",userAgent =…
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how to use dbpedia to retrieve language specific information?

I am trying to learn dbpedia, from the tutorial I read, for url such as: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Christian_Fabricius dbpedia creates an url such as: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Johan_Christian_Fabricius, which I can use to lots of useful…
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Beautiful Soup in Python can not recover attribute in some wikipages

It does get the coordinates for Link1, but the same code gets it for another country...why? (it worked well a year ago) link1='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopia' link2='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia' identification = { 'User-Agent' :…
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MediaWiki API, mobileview

I am trying to get a mobile suitable version of the page with the query http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?mobileformat=&noimages=&format=json&action=parse&prop=text&page=Snow. I expected that the page content would be like on the mobile version of…
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Wikipedia read-only bot API?

I have written my own read-only bot (in Objective C) that simply does a curl of target pages every six seconds; it works fine, but takes days when I need to read thousands of pages. So I'd like to switch to a bot API to set maxlag=5 to get better…
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indexing wikipedia articles in SOLR around a location with given distance

What is the best way to index Wikipedia Articles (which contain Geo locations lon/lat) in a Solr Server? E.g. I have a given lon/lat Position and want to index all Wikipedia Articles around a distance of 60 kilometers. I could download the whole…
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Wikipedia MediaWiki API Get Template Content via URL Request

I've been going through the doc's for past few hours and simply can't seem to figure this out though probably simple. I have this…
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