2009/7/2 shafqat <[email protected]>:
>
> I have spent a lot of time in the forum and now have a working query that
> gets me all the information I need (a list of images plus other info).
> However, I need to also get the image author so that I can have the proper
> attribution. Have tried everything but cannot get that piece of data. Am I
> missing something?
>
> This is the query that I am using to get the images:
>
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&generator=images&prop=images|imageinfo&gimlimit=50&iiprop=url|size|comment&format=xml&iiurlwidth=240&titles=Barack%20Obama
>
> As an example, for this file
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BarackObama2005portrait.jpg, I would
> want to get back the text "United States Senate", which is listed right next
> to the Author field.
>
It's right there in the wikitext:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:BarackObama2005portrait.jpg&action=edit
. Grab the wikitext of the file description page through
prop=revisions and find the attribution in it.

Roan Kattouw (Catrope)

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