Hi Doris, If you look at the links for some examples you may find that much of the difference is articles that are redirected. Sometimes redirected and merged.
Non notable fictional characters are usually redirected to the article on the film or book they come from. If you look at the history of the redirect you may well find an article. WSC On Wed, 27 Oct 2021 at 15:50, Adam Wight <adam.wi...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > The "logevents" API should return the same data as Special:Log. For > example, > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=logevents&letitle=Category:Recipients%20of%20the%20Order%20of%20the%20Tower%20and%20Sword > > This can be filtered further to just delete events, and so on. > > But if you only want to know whether an article exists or not, "missing" > should be accurate. Can you share some example URLs for which the page > exists, but the API returns "missing"? > > Kind regards, > Adam W. > > On 10/27/21 3:40 AM, D Z wrote: > > Hello All, > > > > I am doing research investigating the role of machine translation in > > Wikipedia articles. I am having trouble with how to know if an article > has > > been deleted from Wikipedia. Specifically, I am getting a list of > articles > > from the cxtranslation list and I would like to know which articles are > no > > longer on Wikipedia. I see that there is the deletion log form > > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/delete> but is there an API > or > > some way to access something like this form so I could check if a mass > > amount of articles have been deleted? > > > > I have used the Media Wiki API <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php> to > get > > articles and the API returns missing for some articles, but this does not > > seem to be fully accurate for determining if an article has been deleted > > because the API has returned 'missing' for articles that do exist. > > > > To summarize, my main question is: given an article language edition and > > article title, or an article pageid, is there an API to check if the > > article has been deleted? > > > > Any help would be greatly appreciated! > > > > Thanks, > > > > Doris Zhou > > _______________________________________________ > > Wiki-research-l mailing list -- wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > To unsubscribe send an email to > wiki-research-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list -- wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wiki-research-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org > _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list -- wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to wiki-research-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
