On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Carcharoth <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Shriram Getc <[email protected]> > wrote: > > In order to obtain current events from the Wikipedia in wiki markup, an > application generally needs to take the following steps: > > 1. Construct the current date string in the form of "YYYY_MO_DA", e.g., > "2009_April_1" > > 2. Perform GET by the URL for the given date string for viewing the page > source, e.g, > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2009_April_1&action=edit > > 3. Pick the content of the HTML <textarea> element. > > > > Since not documented, i'm wondering whether the above is the expected way > of accessing the current events in Wikipedia? Or is there a more elegant > solution for the same task? > > Dunno, but your post ended up in my spam filter for some reason. FYI > in case it helps and in case others also had the same problem. > Hopefully this repost won't have the same problems. > > Carcharoth > Same here. Quite a few posts have in fact. Very annoying. -- Alex (User:Majorly) _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
