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 <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 23-Apr-14 21:29, [email protected] 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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
> List_of_circulating_currencies, I would make an API call like this:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&page=
> List%20of%20circulating%20currencies&prop=sections&format=jsonfm. This
> returns 5 sections with "numbers" which I can use as reference points, but
> I would rather have a "number" for the table in the section. A section can
> have multiple tables.
>
> 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 more machine
> readable.
>
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