API talk:Properties

Suggestion for including thumbnail location
Within, I suggest (for this example):  which would allow to append the two url fragments with the width in pixel in between. Maybe add a "default='90'" attribute, containing the actual width (in pixel) of the tumbnail used for image thumbnail links and galleries. That would ensure that no needless recreation of the thumbnail would occur, and that the thumbnail is available fast (and fits in a 120x120 div or td :-) To match this, "iiprop=thumb". --Magnus Manske 21:47, 8 July 2007 (UTC)


 * I don't think it will be wise to expose how images are actually stored on the server - it will force us to always use the same storage schema. What is the actual goal you are trying to achieve? To allow clients to get resized image? --Yurik 22:04, 8 July 2007 (UTC)


 * I think this is a great idea. It would allow third party tools that manage images on the wiki to get a preview, which is useful for all sorts of things. For example, an image insertion wikitext helper written in javascript.


 * Yes, this exposes our storage schema, but it actually makes it easier to change the scheme in future, because the API just has to use the new scheme and all the tools using it will reflect that. Without the API to bridge image names and their thumbnail storage, any third party tools would have to be intimately knowledgeable of our thumbnail storage scheme because the only way they can get the images is to reimplement the directory algorithm. Jim Higson 11:33, 21 August 2007 (UTC)


 * On reflection, something like this might be better (Using Magnus's example image again)


 * 


 * (where $1 is a placeholder for the size)


 * Which is nice because it shares a pattern with how we represent interwiki addresses, and we aren't stuck with using a "before bit" and an "after bit" if we later change the URL scheme for thumbnails. Jim Higson 11:48, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Getting Page Restrictions
Is it possible to add the 'page restriction' columns to the query report? &#91;user:jldupont&#124;Jean-Lou Dupont]
 * Already done: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=info&titles=Main%20Page&inprop=protection --Yurik 01:54, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Links query and redirects
Hi,

It seems that the links query for a redirect page returns a non-empty list of links (it includes the redirects). Is it normal ? The old query.php API wasn't returning this.

--NicoV 17:46, 15 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Yes, because it is impossible at this point to determine which of the links from a redirect page are redirect trgets, and which links are simple page links. --Yurik 19:14, 16 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Ah, too bad. More work for me to deal with this ;) --NicoV 19:36, 16 July 2007 (UTC)