Thanks André, but after testing it seems that backlinks returns something else. For example this query:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Category:Voltaire&prop=categories Returns: <query> <pages> <page pageid="3465227" ns="14" title="Category:Voltaire"> <categories> <cl ns="14" title="Category:Categories named after French people" /> <cl ns="14" title="Category:Categories named after philosophers" /> <cl ns="14" title="Category:Categories named after writers" /> </categories> </page> </pages> </query> But this query: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=backlinks&bltitle=Category:Voltaire&blnamespace=14&bllimit=500 Returns: <query> <backlinks /> </query> If I just use "Voltaire" instead of "Category:Voltaire" then I think it's looking at a different page, right? The results are different, and don't match the first query results: <query> <backlinks> <bl pageid="3465227" ns="14" title="Category:Voltaire" /> <bl pageid="15582893" ns="14" title="Category:Novels by Voltaire" /> </backlinks> </query> Thanks in advance, Robert -----Original Message----- From: Andre Engels [mailto:andreeng...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2011 11:08 PM To: MediaWiki API announcements & discussion Cc: Robert Crowe Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-api] Portals vs categories 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
