API talk:Parsing wikitext

Minor issues with expandtemplates

Hi,

I just want to report two issues with expandtemplates :

• expandtemplates seems to work for only one level of templates (templates inside templates are not expanded)
• expandtemplates doesn't take into account <includeonly> or <noinclude>

For example, on the French Wikipedia, expandtemplates for {{e}} gives <includeonly>{{exp|e}}</includeonly><noinclude> {{/Documentation}} </noinclude>

Possibly you should report this to http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/, so the issues can be properly tracked and fixed. -- Tbleher 10:16, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Ok, done. There's the same problem for Special:ExpandTemplates. --NicoV 14:54, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Seems to be fixed --NicoV 17:54, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

error with parse...

i am getting the following return...

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <error code="params" info="The page parameter cannot be used together with the text and title parameters" xml:space="preserve">

my query string looks like this...

/api.php?action=parse&page=Houdini

i am using mw 1.15.1 i get nothing of value from the mw debug log and i have verified that my rewrite rules are not adding the title parameter. any thoughts? 67.97.209.36 14:25, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

if i change my query string to this...

/api.php?action=parse&text={{Houdini}}

i get the expected result.

67.97.209.36 16:46, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

I'm seeing the same problems. I think we should write it up as a bug. --Duke33 01:58, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

I took the liberty of writing it up:bugzilla:22684 --Duke33 17:16, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Parsing into printable text ?

Hi,

Is there a way to parse a wiki text to get a simplified text (without HTML, external and internal replaced by their text, ...) ?

My need is the following :

• The project Check Wikipedia uses a configuration file for each wiki (for example: en)
• It's used among other things to generate pages in Wiki format (for example: en)
• In the configuration file, you can see for example a description of error n°1: error_001_desc_script=This article has no bold title like <nowiki>'''Title'''</nowiki>, so it contains Wiki text.
• I am writing a Java program (WikiCleaner) to help fixing the errors reported by this tool. I'd like to display this text in my program as a simple text: This article has no bold title like '''Title'''.

Thanks, NicoV --16:33, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Error with DPL

DPL and DPL in templates are not expanded. e.g. these fail

• api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=yourtitle&rvprop=content&rvexpandtemplates
• api.php?action=expandtemplates&text=Template:TemplateWithDPL

Hamishwillee 00:02, 19 July 2010 (UTC)