On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 2:58 AM, Robert Crowe <rob...@ourwebhome.com> wrote: > I think of this as a tree, even though I know it's a graph. If I send a > query like this: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&page=Portal:Novels > > The <links> element contains <pl> items in namespaces 0 (articles), 14 > (categories), and 100 (portals). I interpret that as "Portal:Novels contains > these items", meaning that in tree terms it is the parent of those items, or > that those items "belong to Portal:Novels". > > If I send a query like this: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?cmtitle=Category:Literature&action=query&list=categorymembers&cmlimit=500&titles=Category:Literature&prop=categories > > The <categories> element contains <cl> items that are the categories that > contain Category:Literature, the parent categories. Similarly for pages. > > So I'm able to list the categories that are the parents of a given category > or page, but I can't seem to find a way to list the portals that are the > parents of a given category or page. Is there a way to do that? Basically > I'm just trying to navigate the tree.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=backlinks&bltitle=Voltaire&blnamespace=100&bllimit=500 (replace Voltaire by whichever page you're interested in) -- André Engels, andreeng...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
