It looks like that is just a template on the category page: {{Cat
main|Cricket}} which is described here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cat_main
So it's just text on the page, not part of any database structure. In other
words, it's part of wikipedia's particular content/structure -- not mediawiki
-- so it's not going to be in the API. The primary data structure for
mediawiki is… unstructured text, which makes things like this a bit of a
challenge. :) You could pull the contents of the page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cricket?action=raw and look for {{Cat
On Jun 20, 2013, at 1:38 PM, Pavan Kapanipathi <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is there a way (ex: API - params) to get the main article for a category on
> wikipedia.
>
> For example,
> The Category page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cricket
> has content "The main article for this category is Cricket."
>
> I need to retrieve the article Cricket.
> In the above example, It is just a co-incidence that the category name and
> the article name are the same.
>
>
> I looked through the API (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php) but didnt find
> anything relevant. Am I missing something?
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Pavan Kapanipathi
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