On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Jan Hecking wrote:

> On 12/13/2007 1:04 AM, Roan Kattouw wrote:
> > Jan Hecking schreef:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Is it possible to retrieve content in different Chinese language
> >> variants using the /w/api.php API? There doesn't seem to be a variant or
> >> language parameter that would allow selecting a variant like "zh-tw" or
> >> "zh-hk". Is there some other way to do this?
> >>
> > How is this done in the regular user interface, then?
> >
> I would like to know that as well. :)
>
> My suspicion is that the user interface, i.e. the frontend servers, do
> the conversion. Which would mean that all users of the MediaWiki API
> would have to replicate that work. That would severely limit the use of
> the API for Chinese language content IMHO. But then I don't know much
> about MediaWiki yet and maybe I have just missed something obvious.
>
> Thanks,
> Jan
>
>

There is a "variant" parameter in
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Parameters_to_index.php
I believe it's only used for Chinese.

Paolo [[User:Tizio]]

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