Re: [Wikitech-l] API attribute ID for querying wikipedia pages

2014-04-24 Thread Daan Kuijsten
On 23-Apr-14 21:29, wikitech-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: Re: API attribute ID for querying wikipedia pages @Matma Rex: This is way to general, I think it would be a lot better when this would be in more detail. For example when I want to fetch a table with all currencies on

Re: [Wikitech-l] API attribute ID for querying wikipedia pages

2014-04-24 Thread Martijn Hoekstra
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Daan Kuijsten daankuijs...@gmail.comwrote: On 23-Apr-14 21:29, wikitech-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: Re: API attribute ID for querying wikipedia pages @Matma Rex: This is way to general, I think it would be a lot better when this would be in more

Re: [Wikitech-l] API attribute ID for querying wikipedia pages

2014-04-24 Thread Bartosz Dziewoński
On Thu, 24 Apr 2014 14:24:08 +0200, Daan Kuijsten daankuijs...@gmail.com wrote: Querying specific (structured) data from Wikipedia is still very difficult in my opinion. My suggestion is that every paragraph, image, link and table get a unique identifiable number. This way Wikipedia gets

Re: [Wikitech-l] API attribute ID for querying wikipedia pages

2014-04-24 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I totally agree that you should be able to do this. However, would it not make more sense to get structured information from Wikidata? Thanks, GerardM On 24 April 2014 14:24, Daan Kuijsten daankuijs...@gmail.com wrote: On 23-Apr-14 21:29, wikitech-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote:

Re: [Wikitech-l] API attribute ID for querying wikipedia pages

2014-04-24 Thread Gabriel Wicke
On 04/24/2014 05:24 AM, Daan Kuijsten wrote: On 23-Apr-14 21:29, wikitech-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: Re: API attribute ID for querying wikipedia pages @Matma Rex: This is way to general, I think it would be a lot better when this would be in more detail. For example when I want

[Wikitech-l] API attribute ID for querying wikipedia pages

2014-04-23 Thread Daan Kuijsten
Currently we are experiencing problems when we try to query wikipedia. Fetching content via the Wikipedia API can be a lot easier in our opinion. The problem we have is that it is possible to fetch content via the property rvsection, which will accept a value (number) which represents the

Re: [Wikitech-l] API attribute ID for querying wikipedia pages

2014-04-23 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 3:48 AM, Daan Kuijsten daankuijs...@gmail.comwrote: A better way for fetching content via an API is to assign a unique ID to a section, a paragraph, a table, an image etc. This way we could simply fetch a part of the content of wikipedia via this ID. That doesn't

Re: [Wikitech-l] API attribute ID for querying wikipedia pages

2014-04-23 Thread Bartosz Dziewoński
On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 09:48:17 +0200, Daan Kuijsten daankuijs...@gmail.com wrote: A better way for fetching content via an API is to assign a unique ID to a section, a paragraph, a table, an image etc. This way we could simply fetch a part of the content of wikipedia via this ID. Such ids