Wrecks:Main Page
Main Page for the Wrecks project.
To make the content from Wrecks independent from the rest of the Publication Station of the wiki, always use the namespace Wreck: on the pages you create for the project.
To create pages use the following syntax: [[Wreck:mypage]] which will translate onto [[Namespace:title of the page]], and result onto page (links), such as the following:
Using the API
Note: To be able to read the API responses in your browser you can install a JSON reading extension on the browser.
A few examples on how to get Wrecks content from the wiki.
All the pages under the Wrecks namespace: http://publicationstation.wdka.hro.nl/wiki/api.php?format=json&action=query&list=allpages&apnamespace=202
http://publicationstation.wdka.hro.nl/wiki/api.php? - the address of the API + ?
format=json& - the format in which the information with appear: JSON
action=query& - the action asked from the API: query
list=allpages& - what to query: a list of all the pages
apnamespace=202 - from all pages get only namespace with Namespace id = 202, which is the Namespace Wrecks
& - a division between the different statements.
The content of the page Wrecks:foo: http://publicationstation.wdka.hro.nl/wiki/api.php?format=json&action=query&titles=Wrecks:foo&prop=revisions&rvprop=content
like the previous, but with
titles=Wrecks:foo& - title (of page) to query: Wrecks:foo
prop=revisions&rvprop=content& - from the property revisions get the the content (rvprop=content) of the most recent revision of
The content of the page on the Nyan cat from English wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=query&titles=Nyan_Cat&prop=revisions&rvprop=content
See how similar the API address is similar to the the one from the page Wrecks:foo the only difference is the in base-address (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/) and on the title of the page (titles=Nyan_Cat)
Mediawiki API Resources
- API Tutorial https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Tutorial
- API overview https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page
