From Splarka : $ wget -O - --quiet "http://radioscanningtw.jidanni.org/api.php?action=expandtemplates&text={{CURRENTVERSION}}&format=yaml"; | wc -c 45
Highly interesting result. 2009/3/31 <[email protected]>: > Gentlemen, (a brand new thread about the version,) > the challenge: get the Mediawiki version from the remote > site but wasting the least amount of bytes to do so. > > Currently to just get a piddly 30 bytes, > "MediaWiki: 1.15alpha (r49026)", > one needs at least > $ set http://radioscanningtw.jidanni.org > $ GET $@/api.php?version |wc -c > 103251 or > $ GET $@/index.php?title=Special:Version |wc -c > 11197 > Just to be able to pipe it to w3m -dump -T text/html|grep alpha > OK, I can cheat > $ GET "$@/api.php?action=query&export&exportnowrap" |wc -c > 1372 > and then at least get with perl -nwle '/>(.*alpha.*)</ && print $1' > MediaWiki 1.15alpha > > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-api mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api > -- Nicolas Dumazet — NicDumZ [ nɪk.d̪ymz ] _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
