On 03/09/2013 10:00 PM, Brian Cassidy 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, thanks for your note. Here's our recent blog post on how to file a bug report or feature request in our Bugzilla installation: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/18/how-to-create-a-good-first-bug-report/ If you find that the API doesn't give you some of what you need for WWW::Wikipedia, please do file a bug. Thanks! -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
