Hi Brad, Sorry, for some reason I didn't see your email till just now : / But thank you for that reply, it makes total sense. Although it is probably not the desired behavior.
Keep up the radical Wiki work - love the site! Best, Bertel Den man. 26. aug. 2019 kl. 16.59 skrev Brad Jorsch (Anomie) < bjor...@wikimedia.org>: > On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 7:02 AM Bertel Teilfeldt Hansen < > geilfe...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Mediawiki-api mailing listers! >> >> I'm trying to get the intro to a list of Wikipedia pages using the >> "extracts" property with "exintro=True". This works fine for most sites, >> but for a few of them the API returns an empty extract field. See for >> example: >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=extracts&titles=Anthem&exintro=True >> >> When looking at the page "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthem"; there >> definitely seems to be text before the first section, so I think I should >> be getting something. Indeed without the "exintro" parameter, I get the >> expected return. >> >> Any idea why this occurs? >> > > "exintro" assumes that the first heading tag (<h1> to <h6>) indicates the > end of the intro. In the HTML of that page, the {{TOC_Right}} causes the > table of contents to be before the visible text, and the table of contents > includes an <h2>, so it chops it off there. > > > -- > Brad Jorsch (Anomie) > Senior Software Engineer > Wikimedia Foundation > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-api mailing list > Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api >
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