On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Bertel Teilfeldt Hansen < geilfe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Mediawiki-api mailing listers! > > I'm trying to extract the full list of references for different revisions > of Wikipedia pages. This seemed like it would be easy enough with > "prop=references", but I keep getting the following error: > > "error": { > "code": "citestoragedisabled", > "info": "Cite extension reference storage is not enabled.", > "*": "See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php for API usage." > } > > Even the example on the API's documentation page returns this error > (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Breferences). > > Why does this occur? And is there no way of getting references through the > API? > > As the message says, it occurs when reference storage is not enabled (i.e. when $wgCiteStoreReferencesData is false). Even if reference storage is enabled, note that prop=references always returns the references for the current revision of the page. It does not provide references for old revisions. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Senior Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation
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