Brian, due to the recent introduction of wikidata.org, most language links are now stored there.
Regardless, you should try to avoid getting langlinks from the raw source, because it wastes a lot of bandwidth. Please consider using mediawiki API<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API>to get just the data you need. For example, for langlinks, use this query: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=langlinks&titles=Russia&lllimit=max&format=jsonfm (change jsonfm to json in your code) Using this method you can request langlinks for multiple titles in one request. On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 10:00 PM, Brian Cassidy <brian.cass...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hello, > > I'm the co-author of the WWW::Wikipedia Perl module ( > https://metacpan.org/release/WWW-Wikipedia). It programmatically parses > the > raw source of a Wikipedia page. > > Of late, a few changes in behaviour have been reported to me -- all related > to the "language" functionality. > > As it turns out a number of pages are no longer returning the language > links in the raw source code like they used to. The canonical test for us > was to load "Russia" in English, then grab the Russian link. As you can > see, the page for "Russia" no longer has those links (which can normally be > seen down the left-hand side of the real page): > > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Russia&action=raw > > A shorter example is the page for "Rotation" > > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rotation&action=raw > > I did find that some pages still have language links. See this one for > "Babushka" > > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Babushka&action=raw > > Has there been some change that no longer outputs those links in some > instances, or is this an actual bug? > > I apologize that this wasn't sent to some official bug tracker, but I > couldn't find that info off-hand from the Wikipedia site. > > Thanks in advance, > > -- > Brian Cassidy (brian.cass...@gmail.com) > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
