Hello, 2009/3/19 <[email protected]>: > I notice an artificial restriction in the API, the inability to do > certain operations across more than one namespace. > > One should not only be able to say a query should be for e.g., namespace 1, > but also 1,2,3, and even "all". > > I can think of several usage cases: > * What page name start with the letter K, in all namespaces? > * What pages are ....., in all namespaces? > * What are the names of the pages, in all namespaces? (so I can use > them as a generator for &export.) > > Maybe the restriction > apnamespace: The namespace to enumerate. You can only enumerate > one namespace at a time. > was made with Wikipedia in mind. But now with the default limits in > place, there is no need force this restriction on smaller sites, no? > >> but is there a way to do all the namespaces in one query, or must we do >> one query for each gapnamespace? > RK> If you want to be sure you get everything, you have to do each > RK> gapnamespace separately
Do you actually have use for this, or is this a purely hypothetical request? In any case, if you there are too many pages that you can't reasonably parse the full page list - then it is unlikely that being able to specify multiple namespaces will save you any requests anyway. Regards, MinuteElectron _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
