To follow up on this somewhat old thread: I finally got around to actually testing Paolo's suggestion of using the index.php API instead of api.php. Turns out it doesn't actually work. While the index.php API does have a variant parameter that allows to select one of the Chinese language variants (e.g. zh, zh-hk, zh-tw) it does not actually honor this parameter when combined with action=raw. When returning the raw Wiki markup it always returns the same variant (zh?) no matter what variant is specified.
$ curl -s "http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E8%A5%BF%E6%81%A9%E5%A1%94&action=raw&variant=zh-cn"; > zh-cn $ curl -s "http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E8%A5%BF%E6%81%A9%E5%A1%94&action=raw&variant=zh-tw"; > zh-tw $ diff zh-cn zh-tw diff shows that the markup returned is identical. With action=view (the default) the output is clearly different. So it looks like there is actually no way to get the raw markup in different language variants? Thanks, Jan On 12/13/2007 6:45 PM, Jan Hecking wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
