On 12/13/2007 11:28 PM, Paolo Liberatore wrote: > 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. >
Thanks for the reminder, Paolo! I hadn't considered index.php before because I assumed it only returns the rendered HTML markup. But now I saw that there is an action=raw parameter which returns the raw wiki markup that I'm looking for. However this API has one other drawback: In contrast to api.php it doesn't have an option to resolve redirects automatically. When calling api.php I was using the redirects parameter to do so but this doesn't seem to be supported by index.php when using action=raw (only for action=view). That means I would potentially have to make multiple calls to resolve redirects manually. Or is there a way to avoid this? Thanks, Jan -- Jan Peter Hecking .............. Yahoo! Connected Life Phone: +65 6279 7304 ........... 6 Temasek Boulevard Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] .. #08-00 Suntec Tower Four Yahoo! Messenger: jhecking ..... Singapore 038986 _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
