Johannes Beigel schreef:
> 1. Is it possible to programatically get the full text of the license
> for the articles of a MediaWiki (ideally in form of an article in the
> same MediaWiki installation)?
>
No, because it's not guaranteed to be stored anywhere. The fact that the
GPL text is on Wikipedia is more of a coincidence than a convention.
> 2. Is it possible to get the licenses (or at least license names) for
> images?
>
No, because, again, this isn't really stored anywhere. Image licensing
is not a built-in MediaWiki feature, but is accomplished using
templates. Your best bet would probably be to run prop=templates on the
image description page and see if it turns up a license template. Other
wikis may not even provide license information for their images, or may
not use templates for that.
> The image descriptions (or "comments" from
> action=query&prop=imageinfo&iiprop=comment) only include templates
> ("license boxes") whose names differ from one MediaWiki installation
> to the other; needless to say, that not every included template needs
> to be used for licensing information. Another problem with
> iiprop=comment is, that sometimes not the full description text is
> returned.
You can always get the full description by running
prop=revisions&rvprop=content on the image description page (which could
be remote).
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)
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