Thanks Brad and Owen
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Owen Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > 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<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Categories>is > *Cricket <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-api mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-api mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api > >
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